Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan was joined by Shadow Minister for Regional Development Darren Chester at the Bruxner Highway/Sneaths Road intersection at Wollongbar to call on the Federal Government to reinstate the $6.8 million that was cut from the road safety program for one of the busiest roads in the Northern Rivers.

"I wanted to show him (Darren Chester) the road behind us too. We all know, of course, that the Bruxner between Wollongbar and Lismore is a very busy road, up to 10,000 car movements a day. $6.8 million was pulled from this piece of regional infrastructure about two years ago.

"What that $6.8 million was going to do was do a study into this to come up with solutions to make this all safe. This road has eight times more serious accidents and or fatalities than other roads of a similar size and similar traffic numbers. So this is dangerous, and to have that money pulled was quite devastating to our community, and I really wanted Darren to eyeball this today."

Shadow Minister Chester claimed the Albanese Government has given up on reducing road trauma in regional areas at a time when we have seen an increase in road fatalities of 23% across NSW and 11% across Australia.

"That is not the time to cut funding for Road Safety. Now under the previous coalition program, called the Roads and Strategic Importance, which was designed to work with state governments to do corridor studies then do major safety improvements to improve the conditions for people who live and work in our regional communities."

"What's really concerning about the Albanese government's approach to regional road funding is we used to provide 80% of the funding and 20% from the States. Now, the Albanese government has cut it to 50/50. That means there'll be less road projects done outside our urban areas.

"In government, the coalition was working with states on an 80/20 funding basis that allowed us to get more projects done."

(Darren Chester and Kevin Hogan at the Sneaths Road exit from the Bruxner Highway)

When asked if the road funding balance will be reversed if the coalition is successful at next year's election, Shadow Minister Chester said, "There's no question that going into the next election, we'll have a plan for reducing road trauma and investing in regional road projects.

"We know that you have to make safer roads, better roads to reduce road trauma. It's not just about driver behaviour; it's also about investing in the road surface and reducing the number of dangerous intersections. We can't expect motorists to do all the heavy lifting here. State and federal governments need to work together to invest in improved, safer roads on our major arterial links."

Mr Hogan then outlined the black spots on the Bruxner Highway between Lismore and Ballina.

"Look, I think there's two. One is the intersection behind us. We've seen some serious accidents on the one behind us. The other one that I think is quite major, and I was doing it every day for about two years when I was in a different office, is the from Richmond Hill turning onto the Bruxner. You have to cross both lanes to get onto that. It's a very dangerous section of the road.

"And what this study was about was just looking at the best options. These are not the only ones. There's the sharp bend, too, near where Bob Barnes lives, where we had that big accident with the chicken truck that overturned. It's a really busy road, and as we said earlier, eight times more serious accidents, critical and or fatal accidents, than similar roads around the state. So this road needs work done on it. We need to know what the best available options are on some of those intersections as well."

Mr Hogan and Mr Chester were meeting with the six Page electorate mayors to discuss what their major funding needs are for the next four years.