The Victorian government has announced it is starting a major road maintenance blitz to ensure the state’s busiest freight routes are kept safe and functional.
The $976 million road maintenance blitz is now underway, starting in Kyneton, where crews will begin fixing potholes and upgrading road surfaces across the state.
As part of the Better Roads Blitz, crews will begin delivering hundreds of major maintenance projects between now and mid-2026 on roads – with 70 per cent of all the funding going towards regional roads.
Over the next nine months, crews will complete thousands of projects on our network, ranging from road rehabilitation and resurfacing, patching potholes and maintaining bridges, installing traffic lights and signage.
The blitz will target the state’s busiest travel and trade routes, helping to get millions of people and hundreds of thousands of tonnes of freight to and from their destination smoothly.
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The key roads across regional Victoria that will be targeted through this massive program of works include the Western Highway, Princes Highway East, Princes Highway West, Hume Highway and Calder Highway.
In metropolitan areas, the Mornington Peninsula Freeway, Leakes Road, Normanby Road, the Warburton Highway and Boronia Road will also see upgrades for smoother journeys.
The state government says all these roads were prioritised based on expert assessments and community feedback, ensuring that upgrades are focused where they’re most needed.
As well as repairing some of the busiest roads, crews will also mow, slash and spray tens of thousands of kilometres of roadsides, inspect and repair thousands of bridges and other structures.
They’ll also fix hundreds of sets of traffic lights and electronic signs, clean up graffiti and deliver other maintenance works as needed.
“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,” Victorian roads and road safety minister Melissa Horne says.
“The last Liberal National government cut roads maintenance funding and jobs – we’re getting on and delivering the biggest single-year investment in road maintenance in Victoria’s history.”
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