Council & Politics
1 October, 2025
Upgrades for Donald-Stawell Road
THE Donald-Stawell Road at Campbells Bridge has been earmarked for improvements as part of a major maintenance blitz.
The Victorian government is rolling out a major road maintenance blitz to rebuild, repair, and resurface roads right across Victoria – backed by the largest single-year investment in road maintenance in the state’s history.
Minister for Roads and Road Safety Melissa Horne launched details of the $976 million road maintenance blitz this week 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 the road 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.
“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,” Minister Horne said.
“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,” she said.
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