#FixVicRoads: Diamond Creek local Nash Greenwood demands upgrades to Main Hurstbridge Rd

When a busy road through Diamond Creek began to crumble and maintenance workers didn’t show up, one man did — with a sign big enough to try and make them notice. WATCH THE VIDEO

Diamond Creek local Nash Greenwood is taking a stand — and a sign — against his town’s broken road network.

Mr Greenwood stood nearby huge craters at Main Hurstbridge Rd, wielding a huge give way sign and signalling road users to danger ahead: a massive, tyre-munching corrugation.

Nash Greenwood warns fellow commuters of potholes in Diamond Creek. Picture: Mark Stewart

“Every day, local Diamond Creek residents have to evade potholes against their will,” he said.

“People are swerving around these potholes, we’re at risk of head-on collisions, we’re at risk of popping tyres — unnecessary expenses for problems that shouldn’t exist.

“It’s time someone took a stand and helped these people avoid these tyre damaging potholes.”

A car narrowly avoids the pothole on Main Hurstbridge Rd. Picture: Mark Stewart

Main Hurstbridge Rd is the latest in Diamond Creek to succumb to potholes.

Just six months ago, the Herald Sun named Diamond Creek Rd between Yan Yean Rd and Ryans Rd — known locally as the “Windy Mile” — as readers’ choice for worst road in the state.

The Department of Transport said the Windy Mile was inspected by crews “at least once a week” and that in the last two years 40 potholes and 117 sq m of repair works had been completed on the stretch.

The Windy Mile, pictured in November 2024, was repaired after the Herald Sun reported on its shocking condition. Picture: Grace Frost

Major works were completed last year at the Windy Mile — but residents have had to raise the alarm yet again now roads closer to town are falling apart.

“Residents were writing into media, they were messaging our members of parliament, all to get the Windy Mile fixed, and it took years,” Mr Greenwood said.

“I know so many people who got flat tyres from going through those potholes.

“Now that it’s been resurfaced, just a little bit further down passed the roundabout, there’s still more potholes that need to be filled.

“This is Diamond Creek — this is a metro area. Our roads should be regularly maintained, they shouldn’t get to this point, and we shouldn’t have to put up with this reactive pothole plugging.”

Nash Greenwood is hopeful his approach will get the state government’s attention and finally see the potholes filled. Picture: Mark Stewart

While Mr Greenwood danced near corrugations at Main Hurstbridge Rd, the Department of Transport told the Herald Sun is had crews out inspecting the pothole-ridden stretch between Station St and Cowin St “at least once a week”.

In the last two years, it repaired eight potholes along the stretch.

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