Point Cook’s Alice Osborne knows all too well the impact that commuting from Wyndham to Melbourne can have on families.
Fed up with cancelled trains, traffic jams and constantly struggling to make it home in time to pick up her children from day care, Mrs Osborne decided to give up her job in the city.
“I would get up at 5am and leave before 6am to get to work by 7am, so I could leave at 3pm to pick my kids up from child care,’’ she said. ‘
‘My husband would drop them off in the morning, so he wouldn’t get home until late at night. We didn’t get to spend time together.
“We were travelling around peak hour, but it wasn’t good for any of us. Driving two and a half hours home when you have got kids in day care and being worried you can’t get home in time to pick them up, it’s added stress we didn’t need.”
In a bid to encourage the state and federal governments to invest more money in transport infrastructure in Wyndham, Mrs Osborne has signed up to the council’s Get Wyndham Moving campaign.
She wants state and federal governments to fund duplications to arterial roads around Point Cook and a bypass from Point Cook to Altona Meadows.
She is also encouraging parents to walk their children to school to reduce “horrendous” traffic and boost health.
