KINGSTON Council is urging for continued investment from other levels of government to fix local roads.
The federal government has committed to spending $25 million to upgrade the Thompson Road and Mornington Peninsula Freeway intersection at Patterson Lakes, and $3 million to improve traffic flow at the McLeod Road and Station Street intersection in Carrum.
Kingston deputy mayor Chris Howe said that the planned upgrades are welcome, but more work is needed. “This investment will make a real difference, particularly the long-awaited safety improvements at the Carrum intersection, where we’ve seen serious crashes and lengthy traffic queues,” Howe said. “Traffic engineers are clear — upgrading the [Thompson Road] intersection is a great start, but to fix this properly we need to duplicate the single-lane bridge and widen the freeway on-ramp. “Without these further upgrades, we risk shifting the bottleneck rather than solving it.”
At the McLeod Road intersection, crews will add a new left-turn lane from Station Street into McLeod Road, two right-turn lanes onto Nepean Highway, and new signage to improve traffic flow. Kingston mayor Georgina Oxley said “these are critical intersections that have become choke points for drivers coming from booming suburbs like Clyde, Carrum Downs and Sandhurst.” “Kingston is a key access point for Melbourne’s southeast and we need strong partnerships with the state and federal governments to make sure our road network is modern, safe and future-proof,” she said.
First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 23 July 2025