With frustration over road potholes likely to hold significant sway at an upcoming state election, both major parties have pumped hundreds of millions of dollars more into upgrade commitments.
However, party leaders were hounded by questions over how they planned to fund their increasingly costly agendas amid a joint outcry over the state's spiralling debt.
Labor leader and Premier Ben Carroll was roadside for a pothole filling in Ballarat, west of Melbourne, on Thursday, to spruik a more than one billion-dollar regional roads plan.
After touring a roadworks depot in person, Mr Carroll promised 25 additional regional road upgrades, including extra lanes and installing new roundabouts and traffic lights to improve traffic flow.
The additional 25 road upgrades would cost $893 million, on top of previously announced upgrades, with both major parties' roads fix packages already in the billions of dollars.
On Thursday, a group of more than 100 business leaders, media figures and former sportspeople delivered a joint call to all sides of politics to deliver credible plans to reduce the state's nearly $200 billion debt.
Mr Carroll insisted he had - and would continue to make - the savings necessary to warrant his government's spending while accusing the Coalition of promising to spend twice as much.
However Mr Carroll declined to offer a time frame for putting the state back in surplus, saying he will reduce debt through "sensible savings".
Liberal leader Jess Wilson said unlike Labor, her party had a detailed and costed plan, which would wipe debt by 2032.
"My commitment to Victorians is that we will balance the books in this state," Ms Wilson said.
Ms Wilson was on the state's Surf Coast, south of Geelong, on Thursday to announce a bypass project in the area.
The Coalition committed to deliver the first stage of the long-awaited Bellarine Link, which Labor has already said it will also deliver during its first term.
The difference being the Liberal party will pump $335 million into the project, compared to Labor's $237 million, with the Coalition saying Labor's plan would only deliver a single lane in each direction compared to their four-lane plan.
The Greens on Thursday announced a policy to make the notoriously muddy Yarra River swimmable by 2036 with party leader Ellen Sandell and MP Gabrielle de Vietri proving their commitment by taking a dip.
The plan would be backed by an initial investment of $70 million as well as legislated targets and stronger penalties for polluters.
"Victorians used to swim in the Birrarung Yarra," Ms Sandell said.
"There's absolutely no reason why we can't again."
