Casey plots roads to future

FOUR senior VicRoads officials have seen the top road priorities for the City of Casey.
Casey mayor Colin Butler and Casey chief executive Mike Tyler hosted the visit that included presentations and discussion.
The officers were also taken on an extensive bus tour of more than 20 priority main road duplications and intersection upgrades.
This included the proposed Cranbourne Bypass.
In addition to the main road network requirements, discussions covered a broad range of topics including strategic landuse planning and implications of changes in the Urban Growth Boundary, public transport needs now and into the future, VicRoads’ future directions for the City of Casey, and how the council can continue to work in partnership with VicRoads and the Government to ensure the best possible road funding outcomes for Casey.
Cr Butler acknowledged and commended the importance of the VicRoads official visit because of the need for toplevel decisionmakers to gain firsthand insight into the challenges and pressures that Casey’s massive population growth places on the main road network.
“We are very grateful for major funding provided in recent years by the State Government for main road development,” he said.
“However, with Victoria’s largest population of young people aged 12 to 25 years and highest rate of growth of people over 55 years, it is still vitally important to recognise that funds are continually needed to build and upgrade the main road network.”
Mr Tyler said Casey’s population had passed 226,000 and with the present growth rate of up to 50 families moving in each week, there were about 3500 new vehicle trips every week in Casey.
Sites visited on the bus tour included Clyde Road intersections with Kangan Drive, the Clyde Road Enterprise Avenue, and Clyde Road High Street intersections.