Heidelberg and Diamond Valley
Weekly
Traffic Driving People
Mad 13 July, 2010
by Genevieve Gannon
BANYULE Council has called for an immediate meeting with
VicRoads to discuss the safety and amenity of residents living on
Rosanna Road. The move came last week after the council
rejected a VicRoads proposal to designate Rosanna Road as a
preferred traffic route as part of a road-use plan.
The plan was developed to give vehicles priority on some roads,
and public transport, cyclists and pedestrians priority on other
roads. Burgundy Street in Heidelberg, for example, has been
designated a pedestrian priority road. Councillors voted to approve
the rest of the plan, with the exception of Rosanna Road.
Cr Tom Melican said it was never designed to take the amount of
traffic that uses it, but there was no alternative. ''Some
people north of Banyule simply have no other choice but to drive on
Rosanna Road. People in their houses during the night are being
subjected to trucks belting down the road at excessive
speeds.''
Cr Anthony Carbines said he was concerned Banyule could not come
up with an alternative plan, other than using Rosanna Road as the
major route.
The council wants to work with VicRoads to develop short-and
medium-term plans to improve conditions for residents living along
the thoroughfare.
Meanwhile, the state government has dismissed concerns over a
document which showed two options for a tunnel between the
Metropolitan Ring Road and Eastern Freeway.
The government sought funding from federal government body
Infrastructure Australia for the so-called ''missing link'',
expected to reduce traffic on Rosanna Road, in 2008. That
application had ''long'' and ''short'' tunnels.
The Greens and Banyule Council are against any ''short''
options, which could include a viaduct over the Banyule Flats and
Yarra River, rather than tunnelling under them.
But government spokesman Bill Kyriakopoulos said the documents
were submitted before the government had released the Victorian
Transport Plan, which only proposes the ''long'' option: '' a
tunnel between Lower Plenty Road and the Eastern Freeway''.
HDVW believes a subsequent application has been submitted to
Infrastructure Australia but is yet to be considered.
Mr Kyriakopoulos said the government was committed to consulting
the community before deciding on a final route for the $6 billion
project, scheduled to start in 2017.
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July 7, 2010 : Your Say
''Trains off track, but buses rolling along'' ( HDVW, June 22)
demonstrates yet again why only the Greens can be trusted to
deliver good public transport. Labor isn't truly committed and will
only deliver three new services on the Hurstbridge line this year
(all running after 7.30pm) while the Liberals simply dramatise
public safety in order to beat up Labor. The Greens People Plan,
which includes Hurstbridge line duplication and full signal
upgrades, will double public transport capacity in eight years.
Paul Kennedy / Greens candidate for
Ivanhoe
June 22, 2010
Off the rails - Public transport issues are
gaining traction
Rosemary Bolger
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THE AGE
July 12, 2010
Exposé of the Brumby Government's VC 67 Planning
Amendment due to be raised again in the Upper House of
Parliament at the next sitting on 24 July 2010.
Kenneth Davidson
July 8, 2010
Clay Lucas
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July 3, 2010
Why we need more railway, less road
ALAN Davies, supposedly viewing the big picture, says we do not
need an airport-rail link (Comment, 2/7). He cannot see the big
picture because he believes roads can be a solution. They never
are, because they are more expensive than rail to build and because
the moment they are built, they become jammed with cars.
Not only do we need a rail link, we also need the Victorian
government to establish an authority to extend existing lines and
build new ones. Also, new housing developments should not be
allowed to be built unless there is a rail link. That is the big
picture - more railways, less roads.
Spencer Leighton, Torquay
A matter of safety
NO, ALAN Davies, do not ''get taken for a ride''. Skybus is held
up as one reason we do not need an airport-rail link. But what
about the safety of Skybus? No seatbelts and up to 10 people
standing. In a bus. On the freeway. Doing up to 100 km/h. What is
the penalty for a private driver who travelled with standing
passengers at this speed? I will not use Skybus or recommend it to
visitors.
Katherine Henshall, Hawthorn
Slug slow buses, too
TRAIN companies are penalised (however lightly) for poor service
(The Age, 1/7). What about bus companies? Is the public
transport director aware of the many cancelled or very late
services that occur every day throughout Melbourne?
Peter Fagg, Blackburn
Trains, buses, trams
THE State Government has made it clear it does not want to
invest in new rail lines, be they to the airport, Doncaster or
Rowville. Instead, it assures us that similar results can be
achieved with bus rapid transit (BRT). This is true. However, BRT
is not simply allowing a bus to use a freeway's emergency lane.
BRT involves 24-hour, continuous, dedicated bus lanes, bus-only
roads, dedicated exits and flyovers, and instantaneous signal
priority. It requires measures that make buses, like trains, immune
from traffic conditions. This is what Sir Rod Eddington proposed
for the Doncaster corridor.
The real issue is investment in public transport infrastructure,
regardless of the mode. The government should stop using the
potential effectiveness of buses as an excuse not to build such
infrastructure and perhaps the public transport lobby should open
its mind to alternatives to rail.
George Kirby, Northcote
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June 26, 2010
Congestion is state's default position
CLAY Lucas paints a very grim picture for airport travellers as
a consequence of the Victorian government's failure to commit to a
rail link to Melbourne Airport (''Airport train derailed long
ago'', The Age, 26/6).
The article also offers no hope for the growing numbers of
northern and eastern suburbs residents who seek to get to the
airport by public transport. The proposed bus service from
Broadmeadows referred to by Transport Minister Martin Pakula will
only make a token contribution.
So it looks like the government is back to its default position
on transport: more congestion, more freeways, more pollution, fewer
green open spaces and a less resilient city all round.
Noel Martin, Vice-President, Friends of
Banyule, Heidelberg
Import rail skills
I HAVE just returned, via Hong Kong, from a visit to Europe. To
get to Frankfurt airport, I took a train from Cologne. It travelled
smoothly at 294 km/h, about twice the fastest speed of Peter
Batchelor's regional fast rail. It went directly to Frankfurt
airport, the station being, of course, in the heart of the airport.
On taking the airport express from Kowloon to the new Hong Kong
airport on Lantau Island, I was able to check in all my baggage at
the station. It meant I did not have to take it with me on that
fast and frequent train.
Melbourne is hopelessly backward. Not one new rail line since
1930. If our Transport Department does not have the competence to
manage rail projects, why don't we import the necessary skills from
a country that has already moved into the 21st century?
David Cunningham, Castlemaine
Just bigger traffic jams
WIDENING the Tullamarine Freeway is hugely misguided, since the
''squeeze point'' occurs at the drop-off and pick-up areas at the
airport, and this would necessarily remain the same size. The
traffic jam leading to it would simply be wider.
A good short-term fix would be to convert one lane to a
full-time, bus-priority lane, thus guaranteeing on-time performance
to Skybus users. The long-term fix is clear: Melbourne needs an
airport-city rail link.
Annalise Gehling, Coburg
Why not link the capitals?
RATHER than discussing an airport-rail link, governments should
look at high-speed rail lines from Melbourne to other capital
cities. Recently China opened a 1000-kilometre rail line with
trains covering the distance in four hours. Such technology would
put Sydney well within four hours of Melbourne, little more than
the city-centre to city-centre time of taking a plane. There would
be no need for wider freeways and extensive parking at
Tullamarine.
Many countries are taking up high-speed rail, eliminating
overland flights. Would there not be sufficient profits for private
organisations in Australia if rail took over from interstate
flights?
James Homes, Surrey Hills
NOTHING like vested interests to stymie
worthwhile environmental and social undertakings, like the airport
railway connection. Shame on the Brumby government.
Rod Oaten, North Carlton
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June 22, 2010
Land grab stance is a pox
on the two major parties
BEFORE the 2006 election, Liberal, ALP and Greens MPs surveyed
by the Green Wedges Coalition all supported the government policy
to protect green wedges, ''including the present boundaries''.
The uniformity of the major party responses suggested they had
their respective campaign offices' approval.
It is therefore disappointing for those who want green wedges
protected for their environmental, recreational, and landscape
values, open space and sustainable agriculture, to find the
government proposing to move in Parliament today to amend the urban
growth boundary to remove 43,600 hectares of green wedge land for
urban development, among other controversial proposals in planning
scheme amendment VC67 (''Greens warn of planning
changes'', The Age, 17/6).
Equally disappointing are Coalition MPs' comments that they will
not oppose this disgraceful land grab, which will destroy
4600 hectares of western basalt plains grassland, up to 900
hectares of grassy woodland (plus giant red gums) in the Merri and
Darebin Creek catchments and 4000 hectares of the south-east food
bowl, where productive market gardens double as southern brown
bandicoot habitat.
The Greens seem to be the only party whose MPs stick to their
election policies and principles. No wonder polls show their votes
increasing.
Louis Delacretaz, Sassafras
Doomed to sprawl
SHORT of a miracle, Melbourne is doomed to become just another
sprawling, polluted, car-dependent, unworkable, unliveable
mega-metropolis.
This week in Parliament, Matthew Guy, the opposition's spokesman
on planning, committed to support in total the government's massive
urban growth boundary expansion, including some 5000 hectares of
prime horticultural land in the south-east, while knocking on the
head the plan to provide higher-density development along transport
routes.
The ultimatum delivered by the Liberals contains a double
whammy. They will only accept Amendment VC67 and its boundary
expansion if the part related to densification is removed. While
the ''as of right'' six to eight-storey component to this plan
should be rejected, what is left is disastrous - a rubbery urban
boundary with no elastic limit, and little capacity for
well-planned, European-style living.
Evidence shows that the housing crisis is not due to lack of
available land. Land-banking and a nurtured desire for McMansions
is the crux of that problem. Hold the boundary and the developers
will be forced to release this land. Insist they provide the
desired proportion of well-designed affordable houses and the
market will adjust accordingly.
Rosalie Counsell, Harkaway
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June 19, 2010
Dead-end option
MARC Pallisco (''Up and out: change hits our suburbs,'' 13/6)
says that more home buyers are relocating near outer suburban
freeways such as EastLink and the Metropolitan Ring Road because it
is easier to drive to central Melbourne than from middle distance
suburbs that do not have freeway access.
This advantage is likely to be short-lived. The attractiveness
of inner Melbourne as a place to work and live is due principally
to the fact that a large proportion of travellers use public
transport. Still, arterial road and freeway access to the city is
becoming increasingly congested. More freeway users seeking access
to inner Melbourne from outer suburbs would threaten to bring the
city to a halt.
Victorian government policy should be directed at upgrading
public transport and generating more employment opportunities
outside central Melbourne, not building freeways.
IAN HUNDLEY, North Balwyn
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June 2, 2010
Council bypass a shonky plan for Melbourne
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/council-bypass-a-shonky-plan-for-melbourne-20100601-wv5c.html
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May 24, 2010
Tony Morton
Public Transport Users Association
Tony Morton has been an active participant in Melbourne's
transport and energy debates since the mid 1990s. He
currently volunteers as Secretary of the Public Transport Users
Association, and has played a key role in the PTUA's policy
development over the past decade. Tony also has a PhD in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Melbourne, and is a
Senior Engineer in Power Systems with Econnect Australia, a
consulting firm specialising in the grid integration of renewable
energy.
Alongside his advocacy work, Tony maintains a strong
professional interest in optimising infrastructure utilisation,
energy consumption and greenhouse emissions in transport
systems. His recent travel time study of a Melbourne tram
route, published in 2007, helped provide evidence that poor traffic
signal priority and not traffic congestion is the primary cause of
slow running.
Premier's blind spot
JOHN Brumby still labours under the misconception that there's
only one major road crossing the Yarra from the western suburbs
(''Cost won't put a stop to freeway: Brumby'', The
Age, 22/5). Something called the Bolte Bridge has escaped his
attention, not to mention the two major arterial roads that run
parallel to the proposed route of WestLink.
The Premier's real blind spot, though, might be the six railway
lines that cross the Maribyrnong. Two are freight lines, while the
other four already carry more people in peak hour than the West
Gate Bridge does. Yet none are being used to their full
capability.
If we really want a resilient road system that can handle
contingencies, the last thing we want to do is encourage more car
traffic on to it. Freeway building makes our traffic problems
worse.
Meanwhile, all the money we spend on fixed infrastructure is of
no use if trains don't run on time and aren't backed up with
first-rate feeder buses.
Tony Morton, Public Transport Users Association,
Melbourne
Ignorance can't explain it
IT HAS been obvious to many of us for a long time that building
more urban freeways while neglecting public transport is mad. We
have been unsure, however, whether to attribute persistence in this
policy to stupidity or ignorance.
But now, seeing the evidence of what our rulers know about the
costs and benefits - evidence obtained by Greens MLC Greg Barber
(''Freeway not worth the cost: report'', The Age,
21/5) - we can eliminate ignorance.
Colin Smith, St Kilda
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May 22, 2010
Full link not viable
THE RACV wants us to believe that while WestLink may not be
economically viable on its own, the full east-west freeway link
would be (''Freeway not worth the cost: report'', The
Age, 21/5). But it is not so: the Eddington study in 2008
found that the full East-West freeway had a benefit-cost ratio of
just 0.5.
No amount of phoney ''benefits'' and goalpost-shifting was able
to generate a payoff to match the enormous cost of building the
thing.
These road tunnels just don't stack up. Let's face it, the best
way of getting people out of traffic congestion is to get them out
of their cars. This means providing better options to walk, cycle
or catch fast, frequent, reliable public transport, something
sorely lacking in many suburbs.
Daniel Bowen, Public Transport Users Association,
Melbourne
More rail, not road
IT'S time Roads Minister Tim Pallas woke up to the fact that
Melbourne needs new suburban railway lines, not another expensive
multibillion-dollar freeway carving through the city's west.
It is now 80 years since any Victorian state government built a
new suburban railway line. In that time, the population of
Melbourne has grown from 1 million to 4 million. By any
calculation, that fact alone should convince the likes of Mr Pallas
that public funds should be spent not on more roads but more rail
lines to places like Doncaster and Rowville.
Robert Humphreys, Coburg
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May 21, 2010
Freeways Not Worth The Cost - by Clay
Lucas
May 16, 2010
Suburban streets clog up as truckies turn off
tollway
The EastLink tollway is causing mounting traffic headaches, as
thousands of trucks travelling from Melbourne's manufacturing
heartland in the south-east pour off the toll road in the city's
north, filling up local roads and infuriating residents.
Read more ... >
Clay Lucas
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Freeways Not Worth the Cost
THE AGE May 21, 2010
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/freeway-not-worth-cost-
20100520-vovs.html?autostart=1
May 8, 2010
Transport policy in a quagmire
KENNETH Davidson correctly identifies fatal weaknesses in the
public private partnership model, the greatest of which is the
consistent exaggeration of project risk transferred to private
sector operators from taxpayers (Comment, 5/5).
At the community meeting at Baxter on March 18 to introduce the
Peninsula Link freeway project to residents, a representative of
the Southern Way consortium, the project operator, told me they
would never have accepted the project if required to take the
business risk associated with it being a toll road.
So Peninsula Link is not tolled. For practical purposes it is an
overpriced, taxpayer-funded funnel to feed cars from Mornington
Peninsula on to EastLink, a privately run toll road.
Transport policy is in an economic and environmental mess. And
it appears we are in for more of the same as the Henry report's
pitch for a more efficient and sustainable approach to providing
transport infrastructure has been set aside by the federal
government.
Ian Hundley, Balwyn North
May 7, 2010
Favouring road over rail is a fallacy
THE state budget fails to mention that 84 per cent of Melbourne
households are now without available train services (''Gloom to
boom cash splash'', The Age, 5/5). Most have no real transport
choice, as bus services run at 30 to 45-minute intervals, or not at
all.
The priority for John Brumby, Tim Pallas, and Martin Pakula is
clearly to service trucks and cars with more freeways, beginning
with the monster about to slice through Footscray and Sunshine.
Westlink will increase truck and car movements by 20,000 a day, and
also increase pollution, emissions, collisions, noise, hospital
admissions, and the national fuel bill.
Brumby is also planning to destroy Hoddle Street and its
surrounds with concrete and steel flyovers and canyons, from Cifton
Hill to south Richmond.
Compare that with passenger and freight trains, which use less
than one-third of the fuel per tonne carried, to the economic
benefit of the whole state.
Brian Buckley, North Carlton
May 1, 2010 - Letters to The Age
Too late to save the green wedges
THE population battleship is turning, but too late to save
Melbourne's green wedges. Tony Abbott says 36 million is too many,
Kevin Rudd wants a population strategy, but the state government
and opposition have agreed to expand the urban growth boundary by
43,600 hectares to allow the city to take our share of those extra
millions (The Age, 30/4).
There goes the best of the western basalt plains grasslands,
the red gum grassy woodlands of the Merri Creek and Maribyrnong
River catchments, the south-east food bowl and the hopes and dreams
of thousands of green wedge farmers and conservation
landholders.
There goes the state's greenhouse gas emission target and
there goes the budget, as the government commits to suburban sprawl
costing taxpayers up to $100 billion more than the same number of
dwellings in the existing boundary.
The state Liberals have a potential election-winner here, if
they just say no. Otherwise, voters will be left with a
Tweedledum/Tweedledee choice while the real winners, large
developers and political donors who have been improperly
speculating in Melbourne's green wedges, will cheer.
Rosemary West, Green Wedges Coalition,
Edithvale
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April 28, 2010
The Age, April 28, 2010 - State in a Spin over
Transport Critics
April 27, 2010
The Age, April 27, 2010 - State Paid to Discredit
Transport Critcism
March 20,2010
The Age, March 20, 2010 - Competing visions lack a
liveable balance
A 1960s' dream
ALAN Davies (Comment, 19/3) makes some valuable points about
''urban'' and ''suburban'' styles of development. But he neglects
the social problems of car dependence in fringe suburbs with his
assertion that ''much of the social isolation … has been
mitigated by increased car ownership''.
This would come as a surprise to many in the suburbs who find
themselves stuck at home because the household can't afford a
second (or third or fourth) car. The low proportion of car-free
households masks a lot of transport deprivation.
Thanks to the global financial crisis, we were granted an
18-month hiatus in petrol prices and mortgage rates. But it won't
last: petrol's on the way up again and interest rates are heading
back to ''normal'' levels.
Most commentators expect global oil supplies to peak within a
decade. In due course we'll be reminded that we can't live the
1960s' dream of cheap, car-based mobility for ever.
Tony Morton, Public Transport Users Association,
Melbourne 
March 3, 2010
The Age, March 3, 2010 - When planning becomes
political, we all lose
Airport rail is a cheap no-brainer.
It requires no tunnelling, no elevated structures and
virtually no land acquisition, so it doesn't require $16 fares to
recover costs. The only conceivable explanation for not
having built it by now is the multitude of vested interest that
have assembled to price-gouge travellers, excusing themselves with
the outdated notion that the only people who fly are those with
ample disposable income. We could even build it by 2012 with loose
change from the Regional Rail Link fund.
Tony Morton, Public Transport Users Association,
Melbourne
A win-win tram link
Not only do most if the world's great cities have a fast-rail link
with their airports, many also have a second rail service - for
example, a metro connection providing a "stopping" service along a
different route.
Irrespective of how many decades and hundreds of millions of
dollars it may take for the fast-rail service, extending the
Airport West tram line 6 kilometres to Tullamarine would provide
enormous benefits for less than $100 million and could be done in a
few years. While the 21 kilometre line would not be high speed, 70
per cent of it would be separated from vehicle traffic and it would
provide a high frequency service for travellers and airport
workers. It would also provide a shuttle service, allowing people
to be dropped off and picked up away from the airport. What better
introduction to Melbourne could there be than by travelling to town
by tram?
Will McKenzie, Sandringham, New Zealand (formerly North
Melbourne)
The government says we don't need rail links to the airport or
Doncaster. We don't need more freeways or fairy lights on the
Westgate Bridge. Why are we getting them?
Brian Coffey, Fairfield
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The Age, February 19, 2010 - The Premier must lift
the curse of the cars
The Age,
February 19,2010 - Parties prepare for the only polls that
count
The Age, February 15, 2010 - Projects built at expense of
community
Before the 2002 state election I was asked to chair a meeting of
Banyule citizens who had good reason to believe the Bracks
government was planning to build a freeway connecting the
Metropolitan Ring...
Even in N.S.W. they get the roads in first:
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/editorial/the-shock-of-the-old-20100222-orni.html
" earlier. We repeat this tedious detail simply to point out that
Labor makes promises on transport it cannot keep - unless they
relate to the cover's missing button, roads. Labor's Transport
Action Plan of 1998 contained six rail projects, seven busways and
11 road projects. All the road projects have been completed - but
only one rail project (the airport line) and half another (the line
from Chatswood to Parramatta). Two busways have been built."
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Opinion, The Age, February 14, 2010
Forget the spin, be
responsible
HARDLY surprising that in an election year the
government wants us to believe they are addressing Melbourne's
burgeoning traffic congestion (''Transport revolution to get city
moving'', 7/2). The release of this new plan is designed to hide
the fact that the government still intends to build PeninsulaLink,
WestLink, NorthEast Link and other roads. These will require
hundreds of compulsory home acquisitions. Vast tracts of parkland
will be lost. These roads will cost billions and plunge the state
further into debt. Too much spin, not enough responsible social and
environmental management, Mr Brumby.
NOEL MARTIN, Heidelberg
Make rail a priority
''A BOOMING population and a limited rail network,''
writes Reid Sexton (''It's a question of give and take'', 7/2),
''mean that urgent action is needed if Melbourne is to avoid the
nightmarish traffic jams found in large foreign cities.''
Why, then, isn't VicRoads' first suggestion to construct as many
new rail lines as possible? Trains don't vie with cars, trucks and
buses for road space. Build them without level crossings, and they
won't affect traffic at all.
JUDITH LORIENTE, Hawthorn
Too old for
fairytales
REID Sexton, I gave up on the tooth fairy when as a
three-year-old I spied my pop putting a florin under my glass of
water. It was a shattering of credulity then, just as your
commentary on Melbourne transport [is] now.
JOHN DORMAN, Carnegie
Make it safe for all
I SUPPORT planned measures to encourage more popular use
of public transport but the plan currently overlooks one crucial
issue - security. I do not have a car. I rely on the train. After
dark I must use a station that is dark and unstaffed (one of many),
and walk from this station to my home using either a dark roadway
or a narrow, dark passageway that traverses largely unpopulated
areas. I do not feel safe doing this.
Any plans to increase use of public transport must also include
realistic measures to ensure its users' safety, beginning with
restaffing stations, more lighting and better design of station
environments.
KATHY EDWARDS, Prahran
Think smarter
WITH VicRoads' new network operating plan, we at
last have official recognition that our city streets do many other
things besides moving cars and trucks. Car transport may still
dominate in Melbourne, but it's less dominant than it was five
years ago. There is every reason to expect and to encourage this
trend to continue.
Meanwhile, our governments need to stop making policy that
encourages freight to move from rail to road, while their
public-relations spin suggests the opposite. Our roads don't need
to get any bigger. The VicRoads plan recognises we can get a lot
smarter about the way we move traffic in Melbourne.
TONY MORTON, secretary, Public Transport Users
Association
Any substance?
YET another transport plan. While we are still being
treated to an advertising bonanza for the Victorian Transport Plan,
which was released back in 2008 and is subject to doubtful federal
funding, this new plan talks of a ''road use hierarchy'', which
appears to pick winners and losers on our existing road network.
With advertising and self-promotion a feature of most
announcements, one wonders whether this will be spin or
substance.
MATHEW KNIGHT, Malvern East
The Age, February 7, 2010 - Transport revolution to get city
moving
State government
will unveil ground-breaking transport plan, conceding that it can
no longer simply build new roads to fix Melbourne's congestion
crisis.
The Age, February 7, 2010 - It's give and take for all
transport
VicRoads' admission that the solution to Melbourne's traffic woes
lies in reorganising the existing system rather than building new
roads is what public transport and cycling advocates have
been...
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Frankston Leader
Frankston Leader, 9 June, 2010
An article about broken promises, loss of habitat, destruction
to the environment by VicRoads for one of Melbourne's newly
constructed freeways
http://frankston-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/link-pushes-through/
Damon Anderson
Progress Leader
TELL US WHAT YOU THINK: Anger grows louder
Progress Leader, 11 May 10 @ 08:03am by Cassie
Maher
AN $8.4 million cash boost for noise walls along the Monash
Freeway has failed to silence critics, with several sections
between Toorak and Warrigal roads missing out.
As part of the 2010/11 State Budget, money will be spent on
noise-reduction measures from Solway St to Ashburn Grove and from
Estella St to Saxby Rd in Glen Iris and Ashburton - a total of
800m.
"This (funding) is a great result for our advocacy on noise
reduction," Burwood state Labor MP Bob Stensholt said.
Should noise walls be funded for the entire length
between Toorak and Warrigal roads?
But Noise Abatement Action Group (NAAG) spokesman Justin
McKernan said the move was "window dressing" and noise attenuation
was needed all the way between Toorak and Warrigal roads.
"When the Government announced the widening of the freeway from
Toorak to Warrigal roads, it unilaterally increased the allowable
level of freeway noise from 63 to 68 decibels," the Glen Iris
resident said.
State Government spokesman Chris Owner said the Government was
not committing to building more noise walls.
" We've put (walls) in a place we think is most useful," Mr
Owner said.
Boroondara Mayor Jack Wegman said while he was "grateful" for
the funding, it was merely a "drop in the ocean" and neglected
residents affected by noise on the Eastern Freeway around Kew and
Balwyn North.
Kew state Liberal MP Andrew McIntosh said he had been "strongly
advocating" for noise walls along the Eastern Freeway and it was
"extremely unfair" it didn't receive any funding.
The last time Andrew McIntosh raised the issue of noise
reduction walls along the Easter Freeway in Parliament was in May
2007. Is this your idea of strong advocacy Mr McIntosh?
Mary H writes:
Posted on 12 May 10 at 10:55am
Firstly, thank goodness someone on the "older sections of
freeways" that handle the most traffic are getting some barriers to
protect their communities.
But where's the "rhyme or reason". Mr Owner says, "We've
put (walls) in a place we THINK is most useful,"
Are we being governed by a "bunch of idiots!" All residents
along the Eastern and Monash freeways whose enjoyment of their
communities, health and homes are being horribly affected by
freeway noise, understand fully the hypocrisy and discrimination
that surrounds this issue.
shame shame shame Mr Brumby and Mr Pallas!
I'm beginning to understand that the only important issue is
whether or not you are in a "marginal electorate". Maybe our
communities need to plan strategies to ensure they become "marginal
electorates" and therefore get the same consideration and benefits
other areas get?
the Koonung Creek Reserve is being destroyed from noise and air
pollution .... yet, still no barriers for Balwyn North ....
Jamie writes:
Posted on 11 May 10 at 10:00pm
The Victorian state government pays lip service to issues of
noisy freeways. This is because they simply don't care and only
spend money to buy votes. Around150,000 people drive the Monash
Freeway each day, yet only a tiny, tiny amount of those 150,000
people live close enough to the freeway to suffer issues with
noise. So the uncaring government gets much more political bang for
buck by funding things that those 150,000 motorists see (like an
extra lane, fancy new signs or colourful flowers) rather than
installing larger sound barriers for the much smaller number of
affected residents. Which means any claims that "they care" by
Burwood state Labor MP Bob Stensholt and transport minister Tim
Pallas simply can't be believed.
Matthew writes:
Posted on 11 May 10 at 01:56pm
Bob Stensholt the Labour MP for Burwood is the master of spin
and self promotion. After two years of lobbying the Brumby
Government, only now an election is coming have they fixed part of
the problem in marginal Labour seats. Having left us suffering this
contant noise intrusion for all this time, saying it is a great
result is simply a white wash, for all of us suffering this
nightmare on Monash. Meanwhile it is ear plugs in for a decent
nights sleep.
Chris Raynor writes:
Posted on 11 May 10 at 12:39pm
We as a family have lived in this area of Glen Iris for over
thirty years.
Promised that sound will be looked has never happened.
The noise from the freeway gets louder for longer each year and
the barriers to reduce this level of noise have not been provided
by either government of political orientation.
Why is it so hard to realize that residents that have rights of
peaceful days and nights cannot receive the respect from
authorities.
Vic Roads must not simply build roads without protection from
noise increases.
If some get protection from noise why do others simply miss
out.
It just doesn't look like even handed treatment or uniform
policy.
Please listen to our point of view or is it simply too difficult
?
Kind regards
Chris Raynor
March 30, 2010
Preamble : In our discussions with authorities such as State
Government, Vic Roads, Linking Melbourne Authority, Relevant
Councils etc, the subject of noise has been raised. People are
concerned about the full story on noise when it comes to affects
them badly. Usually it seems it's then too late.
With Westlink, the issue of noise will be great because
of the close proximity of the freeway to the local housing.
The North-East Link noise issue could even be worse due
to the placement of the freeway in a valley. No more sitting
outside of an evening for locals. The people of Balwyn North
already have a freeway close to them, aren't they lucky?
Their noise problems have been getting worse for some time
now. Local Council seem to be the only ones willing to help
the Balwyn residents.
The following is from Mary at Balwyn North Freeway Noise Group
and includes the Leader article
'Wanted to mention re last line "when standards were shown to
be exceeded noise attenuation measures would be introduced".
It sounds like VicRoads rolled out their "standard avoidance
answer".
Letter from Mary, Balwyn North Freeway Noise
Group
You should be aware that VicRoads policy (as
per constant advice to our group (BNFNG)) is that once standards
are exceeded you are then put on a list (I believe the loudest
noise level is at the top), to be addressed as funds become
available (and to date inadequate funds have been available for
affected areas, although we are unaware of who is on "list" as it
is not disclosed), i.e. noise attenuation measures are not
automatically implemented once measurements are exceeded.
Also -
- The measurement of noise, hours, conditions, only ground floor
level readings, etc, is also a minefield of restrictions
(i.e. to disallow high readings) designed to protect the
VicRoads/State budget.
- For residents, with some "green buffer", i.e. there may not be
a home abutting the freeway, a whole valley can be swamped with
freeway noise, because it is hard to get a constant 68 dBA
measurement at homes further away due to disallowance for windy
days, etc.
- The VicRoads standard of 68 dBA is a horrific
level of noise. For residents currently affected, "horrible"
starts around 60 dBA and we believe it takes a tripling of the
noise level at 60 dBA to reach 68 dBA. By that stage, if you
can afford to move, you do asap!
Apparently in the last few months, VicRoads
have created a separate section for "Noise" as it has become a "hot
topic". I would suggest that those involved need to obtain
some "concessions" regarding the noise that will apply to
the North East Link. You really need to
challenge VicRoads on their policy and call their bluff. This
needs to be done pre-freeway because after the freeway is there you
will have no power (i.e. like Balwyn North residents). Also,
VicRoads have a history of putting time limits in for certain noise
standards (which they do not easily disclose to residents), i.e. we
learnt that the Doncaster Road to Bulleen Road section of the
Eastern Freeway was actually under the 63 dba policy for a 10 year
period that expired around 2005 (this was not disclosed to BNFNG
until we knew the right questions to ask. Our dialogue with
VicRoads was confusing, they did not understand their policy, and
readings in our area exceeded said standard during that period but
it now "conveniently" does not apply)! We have learnt this
has happened to areas along Monash Freeway and
our understanding of Eastlink is that it has a
30 year time limit for 63 dBA which then reverts to 68 dBA.
In summary, I'm trying to convey how the
VicRoads policy works and that it is not designed with the best
interests of our communities. Please do not trust that they
are taking care of the health and safety of the communities likely
to be affected along the planned North East
Link re freeway noise.
and further:
Have I told you that our Council has engaged a
PR firm to lobby the State Government for approx $1m to address
freeway noise (article attached).
So at least our Council are listening,
however, as Boroondara is one of the worst affected areas by
freeway noise as it is abutted
by Monash and Eastern
freeways - issues for residents from Kew to Balwyn North
on Eastern freeway and communities in Ashburton
& Glen Iris on the Monash freeway, the $1m if obtained will be
widely contested.
..... And we havn't even touched
on problems with LIGHTING
This link takes you to the Article published in the
Progress Leader, March 30, 2010
ABC Opinion
MEDIA RELEASE (posted 26 Feb 2010)
Matthew Guy, Shadow Minister for Planning "Brumby's Unfair
GAIC Bites The Dust"
http://www.taxedout.com.au/images/stories/100223_Guy_-_BRUMBYS_UNFAIR_GAIC_BITES_THE_DUST.pdf
Also see Taxed Out's media release "Labor's
Arrogance Leads to GAIC Defeat".
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HEIDELBERG LEADER
April 6, 2010 - Potential to
Split
I RESPOND to the Rosanna Rd resident who is hoping to have the
freeway extension given the green light (''Ban semis from local
roads'', Leader, March 23). I have no doubt that the State
Government already has plans in place to build a freeway to ease...
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February 9, 2010 - Beware the
freeways
THE general manager of corporate affairs, ConnectEast Group,
James Tonkin, vigorously defended the now totally entrenched system
that all Victorian State Governments have adopted. He intimates: it
is perfectly sound judgment to change the creek valley flood plains
for the construction of massive freeways now encircling
Melbourne.
James Tonkin tells us that the Koonung and Mullum valleys before
the freeway extensions were a bit of amess with rubbish piling up
everywhere. This is a bit overdone, and he has no understanding of
the community groups that worked to constantly keep ahead of the
rubbish he highlights. They then worked hard to save these creeks
valleys from a greater threat - the bitumen and cement that now
covers kilometres to Frankston that James Tonkin applauds. We are
warned that yet again a further removal of existing parks and
waterways are planned for a further extension into the Mornington
Peninsula.
Citizens of Banyule, there will be nothing to be thankful for if
the North East Link is built. You will lose your beautiful natural
open space that will never return despite how much grass and trees
are planted. You will face years of heat-producing cement and steel
plus walls that cannot adequately control noise.
I reside and look down on the transparent wall up near Doncaster
Rd where noise, heat and dust are my constant
champions.
Nina Scott, Balwyn North
February 2, 2010 - A very
short-sighted vision
ELIZABETH Jackson is right to be concerned (Opinion, January
19) as to the impact the proposed North East Link Freeway/Tunnel
would have on Heide Museum of Modern Art.
Last year Roads Minister Tim Pallas promised the road project
would ''avoid impacts'' on Heide, which lies close to the middle of
the path of the planned freeway.
Director of Heide Jason Smith has probably been hushed by the
State Government not to talk to the media to prevent any further
criticism on the project, otherwise he would be more forthcoming on
the matter.
The surrounding parkland was a mecca for The Heidelberg School
artists from the late 19th century and many significant works were
painted in that beautiful area, and many artists have followed in
their footsteps to also paint there.
The thought of bulldozers carving through this cultural landmark
and the surrounding Banyule wetlands would have to be the plan of a
philistine with a very short-sighted
CAROL STOWE, Heidelberg
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MANNINGHAM LEADER
July 14, 2010
AS Greg says ( Manningham Leader, June 23), extending the route
48 tram from Balwyn Rd, Balwyn North, to Doncaster Hill is not
likely to benefit Manningham's CBD commuters. The DART bus system,
or much more preferably, a heavy rail service would be...
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The rail solution
Ian Hundley, Balwyn North
February 24, 2009 -
Residents take issue over rail service, freeway
congestion
TRANSPORT and roads are the most important issues to the
Manningham residents who were surveyed by a state MP. The internet
survey, conducted by Doncaster state Liberal MP Mary Wooldridge,
asked 348 residents to prioritise and comment on a number of local
issues.
The categories included health, education, law and order,
transport and roads, environment and water, the economy, community
services, seniors and planning. Residents highlighted the need to
bring rail to Doncaster and the need to ease congestion on the
Eastern Freeway as top priorities.Existing public transport should
also be upgraded, many respondents stated.
In second place was environment and water, with the survey showing
residents were concerned about Melbourne's long-term water supplies
and wanted more water to be captured locally. Local law-and-order
issues such as hoons, graffiti and a n t i - s o c i a l behaviour
rounded out the top three followed by health. Many residents
surveyed said they believed sentences applied by courts were too
lenient.
Shaun Turton
January 28, 2010 - YOUR SAY: Will the new Public
Transport Minister and Parliamentary Secretary help
Manningham?
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NEW Parliamentary Secretary for Public Transport Brian Tee has
been
urged to mark the start of his new job by pushing bureaucrats to
release
the overdue Manningham bus review.
The Doncaster-based Eastern Metropolitan state Labor MP,
pictured,
was elevated to the role last Wednesday by Premier
John Brumby.
Doncaster-based Labor MP Brian Tee is the new
Parliamentary Secretary for Public Transport
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>> Do you think Mr Tee's new role will deliver
results for Manningham? Have your say below.
"I am looking forward to working with councils and the community
to deliver improvements to public transport," Mr Tee said, noting
he was pleasantly surprised by his appointment.
Transport lobbyists welcomed Mr Tee's appointment, but hoped Mr
Tee would push for the release of the bus review, which is now
running 12 months late.
"I hope he becomes a champion for public transport in
Manningham," said Public Transport Users Association spokesman and
Doncaster resident Chris Trikilis. Mr Trikilis slammed bus review
delays as an "absolute disgrace" but said he hoped Mr Tee's new
role could achieve some progress.
"I would hope that he, and the new minister (Martin Pakula), are
able to use their influence to get the bus review released," Mr
Trikilis said.
Eastern Transport Coalition chairwoman Samantha Dunn said the
community had waited too long for the review.
"The consultation process built up an expectation in the
community that there would be a significant improvement to public
transport, but the community is still in the dark," she said.
Mr Tee said he would "look into where the review is at".
Department of Transport spokeswoman Kirsten Harvey-Taylor would
not say when the report, which was first promised to be released in
January last year, would be made public.
"The Manningham/Monash/Whitehorse bus review report is almost
finalised and we look forward to announcing the outcomes of the
review shortly," she said.
Bryan Allchin
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HERALD SUN
Swallow this one people:
' "We understand people are concerned about trucks on our roads,
which is why the Brumby Labor Government is taking action to build
a better transport system and move trucks away from residential
streets," Mr Pallas said.'
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/noise-cameras-to-target-trucks-on-victorias-roads/story-e6frf7kx-1225833383414
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Funding plea puts east-west tunnel back on
agenda
This piece of disgraceful news even has implications for
the North-East Link and all the other projects that they tell you
not to worry about. The politicians of the day get
up at meetings and swear that there will be no continuation of the
freeway from the west, none at all. Then this gets out. Some kind
of comment would be appropriate.
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In the Press 2009
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THE AGE : Transport in the
spotlight
December 31, 2009
Fill 'em up
REGARDLESS of any other arguments for or against building the
''missing'' freeway link, I am surprised to see people still
writing on this page that freeway building eases congestion. It
doesn't. The more freeway space there is, the more cars will use
it. If we have one congested road and build nine more, we do notget
t he original volume of traffic spread out across 10 roads, we get
10 congested roads. Ask anyone who has studied traffic engineering
or transport policy, and they will tell you this is a fact.
In light of this, road building seems like quite a waste of money,
energy and space cherished by residents and non-human occupants,for
little discernible gain.
Becky Chanock, Brunswick
December 30, 2009
A disaster, no matter whose backyard
THE road lobby will have a quiet laugh at Nola Solly's letter
26/12). Her not-in-my-backyard-but-my-neighbour's approach to the
north-east link freeway is precisely what Tony Morton was referring
to in his letter of the same date. Ms Solly suggests returning the
''missing link'' to its original route via Eltham. But as
Montmorency residents, adjacent to Eltham and part of Banyule, we
don't want this $6 billion highway to hell through here or Banyule
Flats. The proposed freeway and tunnel would go through the home of
the Heidelberg School painters and a key conservation area. It
would also go past Heide, home of the Australian modernists, with
little concern for our cultural history or the environment.
Ms Solly suggests that a light rail link to Doncaster and Bulleen
has no relevance. But the idea of more freeways funnelling more
cars through an iconic green wedge on to an already choked Eastern
Freeway means that getting cars off the road and providing low-cost
public transport is relevant. I don't want this freeway disaster in
anybody's backyard.
Dennis O'Connell, Montmorency
The Age, December 29, 2009
RE THE north-east link. Yes, there is a missing link.
It's called public transport.
Michael Galea, Gembrook
The Age, December 26, 2009 - Local bickering masks real
debate
I can still remember Craig Langdon, in 2002, getting up in front
of 1000 people in Banyule Town Hall and swearing there would be no
freeway through Heidelberg and Bulleen as long as he was an MP.
The Age - December 26, 2009
- Who can we trust?
WHEN local MP Craig Langdon promised that Labor would not
build a Yarra Flats freeway, he referred to then minister for
transport Peter Batchelor, who declared in Parliament: ''There is a
very wrong suggestion that the Government has a proposal to build a
freeway through the Yarra Flats ... It is a tragic and sleazy
attempt by a conspiracy of the deluded to try to frighten people
living and workingin this area ... these people will have no basis
for making the suggestions in the future.'' I feel betrayed by the
Government. Come the2010 election, who should I trust?
Kevin Biaggini, Ivanhoe
The Age, December 18, 2009 - The cars that ate Melbourne
While our Prime Minister is in Copenhagen pledging that Australia
will reduce its carbon footprint, the Victorian Government is
blithely proceeding with projects that will further blow out
Victoria's...
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The Age, Decembe 17, 2009 - Quick fixes won't end traffic
woes
The city's roads need an over-arching vision, not simply more
underpasses...
Einstein's
theory
THE Age (17/12) informs the long-suffering public of the
"Underpass plan to ease gridlock on Hoddle". We heard a few weeks
ago that the monumental WestLink project through Footscray and
Seddon is to proceed; then we learnt this week that the $6 billion
North East Link from Bulleen to Greensborough is under way; and now
we find that a $750 million plan for construction of Hoddle Street
intersection interchanges has suddenly materialised.
EASTLINK has proven not to reduce congestion, merely moving it
somewhere else (''Suburban streets clog up as truckies turn off
tollway'', The Age, 16/12). Now the Government is
proposing a $6 billion motorway to move this congestion somewhere
else. Wasn't it Einstein who said ''the problems of today cannot be
solved with the same thinking that gave us the problems in the
first place''?
Michael Galea, Gembrook
Mayor has it wrong
MY FRIENDS in Templestowe were horrified to read
about the proposed north-east link. The new Banyule Mayor says
there is a growing traffic problem and he wants the Government to
rethink the proposed freeway's route, and run it through
Templestowe. If ever there was case of ''not in my backyard'', this
is it. The Mayor, Wayne Phillips, can henceforth have ''NIMBY Award
2009'' added to his name.
Transport engineers have already surveyed the Templestowe route
and found that it was geographically impossible.
Why can't the good councillors of Banyule tell the State
Government straight out: Put a halt to tunnel building; act now on
Banyule Council's recommendations to rationalise and improve local
traffic; protect Victoria's heritage sites, including those in
Banyule; and pump our billions into public transport, such as a
rail line down the Eastern Freeway - for starters.
Elizabeth Jackson, Fitzroy
The cars that ate Melbourne
While our Prime Minister is in Copenhagen pledging
that Australia will reduce its carbon footprint, the Victorian
Government is blithely proceeding with projects that will further
blow out Victoria's greenhouse gas emissions.
How can we persuade the State Government to invest in
sustainable public transport and abandon polluting freeway
construction?
Lewis Prichard, Hawthorn
Back to the
future
PLANS for flyovers and tunnels for one of Melbourne's busiest
thoroughfares show the "back to the future" thinking of
bureaucratic planning and the desperate need to reduce cars rather
than build more expensive infrastructure.
If these planners saw the road in operation, they would see a
car park in peak hours caused by single-occupant cars driven by
people without a public transport alternative. Part-time bus lanes
on the road prove that when public transport is given priority,
more people rather than vehicles are being moved per hour, which is
the ultimate aim. Of course, giving these Melburnians the
desperately needed rail line to Doncaster would solve the problem
and save our streetscape and money.
Christopher Trikilis, Doncaster
Suffer the residents
THE residents of Collingwood do not want underpasses, overpasses
or tunnels in Hoddle Street creating more havoc and encouraging
more cars on to already congested roads.Since Eastlink has opened,
the traffic has increased dramatically and so have inner-city
bottlenecks. The powerful road lobby has tunnel vision and displays
no concern for the environment or the wellbeing of inner-city
residents.
Mary Fenelon, Collingwood
Short-term thinking
THE $1.39 billion widening of the M1 and the $2.25 billion
widening of the Western Ring Road provide only short-term solutions
to traffic problems as initial benefits in travel time savings are
eroded as traffic volumes increase. Hence the money spent on such
projects is futile in tackling Melbourne's long-term transport
needs.
Contrast the difference to Melbourne if those billions were
instead invested in rail lines for the Rowville corridor to service
Monash University, Chadstone and Waverley, and for the Doncaster
corridor linked to the Ringwood line. These two projects would be
of long-term benefit for Melbourne's transport network, and vastly
reduce congestion on the Monash and Eastern freeways and Hoddle
Street.
Cr Jackie Fristacky, City of Yarra, North
Carlton
Don't reward pariahs
THE VicRoads proposal seems to tackle the symptom and not the
causes of the traffic problem along this route. Large numbers of
vehicles clog Hoddle Street because there are no alternatives such
as a rail link.
In addition, VicRoads again focuses on moving vehicles, not
people. Most traffic causing the problem is the single-occupant
car. With 24-hour dedicated T2 lanes in both directions along
Hoddle Street, we would move more people and reward those who wish
to use their vehicles more efficiently or who choose taxis, buses
or bicycles. We should not be rewarding pariahs in single-occupant
vehicles with better facilities.
Phil Bourke, Macleod
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The Age,
December 16, 2009 - Suburban streets clog up as truckies turn off
tollway
See Clay Lucas's article from THE AGE newspaper which
describes what is happening on our local roads and discusses issues
about the proposed Freeway/Tunnel/Viaduct through Banyule
City
December 11, 2009
Freeway tunnels will increase traffic
IN ARGUING for building the WestLink tunnel and
freeway, Roads Minister Tim Pallas (Letters, 10/11) claimed that
the CityLink tunnels took traffic off local roads and made
surrounding suburbs safer, cleaner and better places to live. This
is not true.
A study conducted by Stonnington Council 18 months after the
opening of CityLink's southern link found the reality was the
complete opposite.
It found that daily traffic volumes in Toorak Road grew by
up to 19 per cent. Truck traffic leapt by more than 59 per cent
during the middle of the day.
Some local roads had massive growth in traffic, with St
Georges Road choked by 4000 more vehicles a day, a 91 per cent
increase. Moonga Road, a back street that became a rat run, had to
cope with 730 more vehicles a day.
Local residents' concerns identified by the report included
worsened pedestrian safety, increased noise and increased air
pollution from exhausts. All of which gives the lie to Mr Pallas'
mantra that freeways are the solution to ''making our city a better
place to live''.
Justin Mansfield, Kensington
Come clean
I WAS amazed to read Tim Pallas' assurances to the
people of areas such as Footscray and Seddon that less than half of
1000 homes will need to be acquired for the WestLink freeway and
tunnel project.
This contradicts the statement by Jo Weeks of Linking Melbourne
Authority (Letters, 5/12 ) that there will not be major property
acquisition. Would they care to explain just how many properties
are to be acquired, once and for all time? The people of the west
deserve an honest answer.
Kevin Biaggini, Ivanhoe
The Age, December 11, 2009 - Privatisation fears over
planning
The Age, December 3, 2009 - Expert calls for freeway projects to be
scrapped
The Age, November 21, 2009 - Car use driving by
lack of trains, buses
The
Age, September 9, 2009 - Freeways - no magic time saving
bullet : Study
HEIDELBERG & DIAMOND VALLEY WEEKLY
Heidelberg and Diamond Valley Weekly, December 1,
2009 - Public transport failing
Heidelberg & Diamond Valley Weekly, June 23, 2009 - Protest
against road link
Heidelberg & Diamond Valley Weekly, April 28, 2009 - Tunnel
will not destroy parkland
Heidelberg & Diamond Valley Weekly, April 14, 2009 - Honesty is
the best policy
Heidelberg & Diamond Valley Weekly, March 10, 2009 - Doomsday
forecast for Banyule
Heidelberg & Diamond Valley Weekly, February 10, 2009 - Roads
more travelled after Eastlink
Heidelberg and Diamond Valley Weekly, January 6, 2009 - Lobby
groups limber up for 'missing link' freeway war
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HEIDELBERG LEADER
Heidelberg Leader, December 10, 2009 - Phillips
elected Banyule Mayor (see comments section)
Heidelberg Leader, June 30, 2009 - In Brief - Tunnel
protest
Heidelberg Leader, March 31, 2009 - Issues with transport
Heidleberg Leader, March 17, 2009 - Protect green
belts
Heidelberg Leader, March 10, 2009 - Say 'no' to tunnels
Heidelberg Leader, March 3, 2009 - Preserve the wetlands
Heidleberg Leader, Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - Environmental
concerns hamper "missing link" plan
Heidleberg Leader, Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - Heritage drive revs
up
Heidelberg Leader, January 13, 2009 - Groups drive hard line
against north-east link
Heidelberg Leader, January 27th, 2009 - Fears Link may ruin Banyule
Flats
Heidleberg Leader, Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - 'No Way' to freeway
link
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RACV ROYAL AUTO MAGAZINE
Royal Auto, May, 2009 - Move People, Not Cars
RACV Royal Auto, February 2009 - congestion Contention
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