Melbourne's Ocean Road (Great Ocean Road) is known as "Australia's most beautiful highway" and "a must-have attraction to Melbourne" for its beautiful coastal scenery, primitive natural ecology, and spectacular rock cliffs. Every year, numerous tourists from home and abroad are attracted to visit here, but recently, a member of the Legislative Council called the road "disgusting" and many tourists took a piss and pee in the open air!
Open-air pee? So low quality?
NO NO NO！
Tourists are also forced to drop, because the public toilets on the ocean road are too few, too!
"there is a lack of basic tourist facilities, such as parking lots, picnic tables, public toilets, crosswalks and signs," said Sarah Henderson, a member of parliament from the Corangamite district, who covers the entire ocean road.
In particular, Eastern View's iconic arch, Castle Cove,Kennett River, these three sites, the urgent need to build public toilets.
In addition, Wye River and Apollo Bay public facilities also lack the necessary maintenance.
"it's disgusting that a lot of tourists can't find a toilet on their way around and have to go to the bushes on the side of the road."
In this regard, some netizens joked:
"Why do you go to the bushes and just solve it directly in the sea? I do it every time-and I often meet people next to me to talk to me, 'Hey, buddy, do you feel the warm current in the sea?'"
Some netizens questioned:
"every year, we get so much tourism revenue on Oceania Road that we can't even afford to build a public toilet, and we're drunk!"
It's not that it can't be built. It's just not built yet!
Just last month, a Victoria congressman, Gayle Tierney, confirmed that goverment would allocate A $25 million for the construction and upgrading of Oceanic Road infrastructure. Last year, the federal goverment also pledged A $25 million in funding for the construction of Ocean Road.
In addition, goverment, Victoria, and federal goverment announced a $10 million co-financing to build (slow vehicle turnout)., a slow-driving escape lane along the Forrest-Apollo Bay Rd At the same time, the Governor of Victoria has pledged an additional A $53 million for road consolidation on Ocean Road.
Some argue, however, that the funding is far from sufficient for the road, which was completed in 1932 and has been in disrepair for a long time.
Last year, the head of the Oceania Road Regional Tourism Organization said, "for 30 years, goverment has spent very little on the repair and maintenance of Oceanic Road infrastructure. In the next 10 years, it will take at least A $1 billion to completely repair the ocean road. "
Senator Henderson has invited residents, business owners, tourism organizations and other stakeholders from the Oceania Road area to Lorne Bowls Club to participate in the "Great Ocean Road Summit" on the 22nd of this month to discuss infrastructure improvements on Oceania Road.
We also look forward to the upgrading of Melbourne's iconic most beautiful road as soon as possible so that there is no "worry" to play around.
