FRANKSTON Council is lobbying for faster response times to graffiti and litter on major roads.
At their meeting last week, Frankston councillors agreed to prepare a motion for the Municipal Association of Victoria State Council addressing the state of state government roads. The motion will ask the state government to “deliver improvements and increased maintenance of state government owned road gateway infrastructure assets.”
Sites identified by Frankston Council as needing more attention are the Nepean Highway, Frankston-Cranbourne Road, Beach Street/McMahons Road underpass, Quinn Link Overpass Precinct, Frankston Freeway, Frankston-Flinders Road/Moorooduc Highway, Ballarto Road, and Dandenong-Frankston Road.
Frankston mayor Nathan Conroy said that council could not clean up graffiti and other mess on those roads as the cost would be too great. “We are not going to take over their responsibility because once you take over, that’s us in for millions of dollars,” he said.
“If you do look at the rubbish on the side of highways and freeways, if you look at the graffiti, if you look at the median strip on Cranbourne Road or Frankston-Flinders Road, we would love to get out there and [clean] it but it’s all the state government’s. It actually infuriates me that these things are happening and I know our local members want it to be done as well and it’s just not happening.”
Conroy said council has improved its response times for graffiti in areas under its control from ten days to three.
First published in the Frankston Times – 19 December 2023