Federal Member for Hume Angus Taylor has welcomed an announcement of $3.49 million for the Wollondilly 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 received $380,000 in Federal funding under the program was the upgrading in two locations of Montpelier Drive at The Oaks.

“This funding saw sections of Montpelier Drive resealed and the shoulders widened for safety,” Mr Taylor said.

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

• May Farm Road at Brownlow Hill road widening - $1.213 million Federal contribution
• Ridge Road at Oakdale resealing - $257,469 Federal contribution
• Silverdale Road at Orangeville road widening - $136,979 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 Wollondilly, to create jobs, to encourage small businesses to expand and new businesses to start up, to build a strong economy.”

Caption: Safety improvements to Montpelier Drive at The Oaks were funded recently under the Federal Roads to Recovery program.