Federal Member for Hume Angus Taylor has welcomed an announcement of $3.49 million for Camden local government area under the Federal Coalition’s Roads to Recovery program, from 2019-20 through until 2023-24. 

Mr Taylor said the Roads to Recovery program provided councils with the ability to upgrade local roads, to improve safety and boost local economic growth.

One of the local projects that recently received $116,503 in Federal funding under the program was the upgrading of Richardson Road at Narellan Vale, from Welling Drive to Bluebell Crescent (pictured).

“With this funding, council was able to complete drainage works, kerb and guttering, pavement reconstruction, new landscaping and pedestrian facilities,” Mr Taylor said.

Other local projects to benefit from Roads to Recovery funding include:

• Turner Road at Smeaton Grange – pavement re-construction and improved drainage $150,000 Federal contribution.

• Two projects along Coates Park Road at Cobbitty – edging and sealing $113,000 Federal contribution

• Werombi Road at Grasmere - pavement re-construction and shoulder widening $370,000 Federal contribution

“More than $3 billion has been invested in Hume infrastructure in the past five years - roads, bridges, the nbn rollout, major capital works, mobile phone towers, smaller community projects - since the Coalition has been in government,” Mr Taylor said.

“We are investing heavily in the Hume growth corridor, in and around Camden, to create jobs, to encourage small businesses to expand and new businesses to start up, to build a strong economy.”

Caption: Angus Taylor with Camden mayor Peter Sidgreaves on Richardson Road at Narellan Vale, where works have been recently completed under the Federal Roads to Recovery program.