Victorians have voted the Great Alpine Road the state's most dangerous in a politically charged survey.
The road stretches from Wangaratta in the state's north, through the Victorian Alps to Bairnsdale in southeast Victoria.
Respondents cited road surface quality and closures due to landslips as key issues, which the Victorian Nationals claim is linked to Andrews government budget cuts.
"Labor cut the road maintenance budget by 10 per cent in its first year and has neglected our roads ever since," Nationals MP and opposition roads spokesman Danny O'Brien said.
"It was cut by a further $24 million in this year's budget after a $191 million cut last year."
The survey, conducted by the opposition as part of its Worst Roads campaign, called on Victorians to submit road condition reports.
Stretches of the Princes Highway, the Melbourne-Lancefield Road, the Traralgon-Maffra Road and Paynesville Road in southeast Victoria were also found to be dangerous by the survey.
More than 2000 people responded to the survey, the Nationals said.
Victorian Roads Minister Ben Carroll defended his government's record on road maintenance.
"We are investing $780 million toward maintaining and renewing Victoria's arterial road network this financial year," he said in a statement.
The Victorian government said it spent more than $21 million on 185 kilometres of road in the 2021/22 financial year, including $1.8 million on the Great Alpine Road and $10.9 million on the Princes Highway.
"Over the past four years we have averaged $813 million per year on road maintenance compared to an average of $493 million per year when the Coalition were last in office," Mr Carroll said.
He also questioned the survey's validity.
"After seven years all the Liberals Nationals can come up with is a misleading survey and a commitment to a road Victorians have rejected twice - East West Link."
The opposition campaign came under scrutiny when it was launched in April, with an aerial shot of a pothole-covered road in Ukraine incorporated into the campaign website's background.
The video footage, which was taken in 2019 and available from stock photo provider iStock, was later removed from the campaign. Another photo of a road in the United States, sourced from a news article, was also taken down.
The Nationals are also promising to reinstate the Country Roads and Bridges program for local councils if voters opt for a change in government on November 26.
