He says his predicament is like several thousand residents living in the Marriott Waters, Mellington and The Rise estates, who have no buses to connect them to schools, shopping centres, medical clinics or train stations.

The nearest bus stop is at Merinda Park railway station, 1.5kilometres from his home in the Mellington estate.

But without connecting footpaths, the walk to the station is a tricky one - next to open-cut drains on Western Port Highway.

Ian's felt particularly stranded since being off work and unable to drive because of a shoulder injury two weeks ago.

"I've had to wait for my wife to get home from work to go anywhere," he says. "There are more senior people moving in and families with one car - they can't go out if someone else has got the car."

More homes are planned in the suburb, but the car park at Merinda Park station is already overflowing. Peak-time traffic can be banked up for about one kilometre along Thompsons Road and Western Port Highway, Ian says.

If Ian had the reins of Government, he would duplicate the rail line between Cranbourne and Dandenong and, of course, install a bus service to Lyndhurst's estates.