The Victorian Government has launched its $964 million road maintenance blitz program to rebuild, repair, and resurface roads right across the state, between now and mid-2025.
Over the next nine months, crews will complete thousands of projects on the road network, ranging from road rehabilitation and resurfacing, to patching potholes and maintaining bridges, traffic lights, signage and road infrastructure.
Fulton Hogan is just one of the many contractors that will begin delivering the equivalent of $2.6 million worth of works for every day of the year – with around 70 per cent of funding going to regional Victoria.
The warmer months will aid road rebuilding and rehabilitation for flood damaged connections. The Victorian Government says damage caused by rainfall necessitated the use of the maintenance program to first focus on rebuilding roads last year.
Now that this is complete, these resources will be once again re-directed back to resurfacing and rehabilitation throughout the maintenance season, while a number of flood recovery projects continue in the coming months.
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The blitz will target the state’s busiest travel and trade routes, with works set to be delivered on the Hume Freeway, the Princes Highway, the Western Highway, the Goulburn Valley Highway and Echuca-Mooroopna Road.
Other roads set to be repaired include Terang-Mortlake Road, Mornington-Flinders Road, Horsham-Kalkee Road and Tylden-Woodend Road.
Victorian Minister for Roads and Road Safety, Melissa Horne, said the funding package is the largest single-year investment in road maintenance in the State’s history.
“We’re investing nearly a billion dollars to rebuild and repair the roads that Victorians depend on every single day — from the highways connecting our major centres to the local roads that keep our communities moving.”
