Calls for safety upgrades near Calder Park Drive continue.
Western Metropolitan MP Bernie Finn raised the need for a Calder Park Drive overpass with Roads Minister Luke Donnellan in Parliament earlier this month.
“It is not unusual at all to see huge numbers of cars banked back, trying to get off the Calder at Calder Park Drive,” Mr Finn said in Parliament.
“It can be quite dangerous, particularly on a wet day.”
Calder Action Group president and Sunbury resident Ian Sutherland told Star Weekly the group had been pressing for an overpass at the “very nasty level interchange” for more than four years.
“There’s very little room for people to slow down to go down Calder Park Drive,” he said.
“And if cars want to go to Melbourne coming back out onto the Calder … that means crossing two or three lanes of traffic at peak times.”
Mr Sutherland said an overpass would allow the freeway maximum speed to remain at 100km/h for the whole stretch.
He said VicRoads had completed a preliminary design in June and the project was awaiting funding.
In May, Brimbank council also called for a fix to the intersection.
Brimbank mayor John Hedditch said drivers negotiating the Calder Park Drive and Calder Freeway intersection needed “stunt-driving skills”.
The council said it would write to federal Infrastructure and Transport Minister Darren Chester and Mr Donnellan calling for funding.
