Federal Member for Hume Angus Taylor has welcomed an announcement of $4.29 million for Goulburn Mulwaree 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 projects that recently received $229,519 in Federal funding under the program was the widening of Mountain Ash Road, from the Windellama Road intersection toward Bungonia, and associated drainage improvements.

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

• Currawang Road from the intersection with Braidwood Road towards Thornford Road - $118,020 Federal contribution. Road widening, drainage and pavement works.

• Oallen Ford Road – road widening and rehabilitation works $235,712 Federal contribution.

“More than $3 billion has been invested in Hume infrastructure in the past five years since the Coalition has been in government,” Mr Taylor said.

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

Mr Taylor said Federal funding for capital works in the Goulburn Mulwaree region had topped $80 million over the past five years – including major capital works projects, bridge and road upgrades, mobile phone towers, the NBN rollout, Goulburn Headspace, the Country University Centre, tourism facilities, smaller community capital works, as well as recurrent Federal roads funding.

Caption: Roadworks on the Mountain Ash Road near Goulburn have been funded under the Federal Roads to Recovery program.