Lisa feels forgotten, and unforgiving. Her home, McCandlish house, is one of eight in Bruce Street, Kensington, she says have been ignored by the designers of the East West Link. “These houses are within a few tens of metres of where this road is proposed to go, plus massive intrusive off ramps for industrial truck […]
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Moonee Valley Council counts the cost
Moonee Valley council has catalogued all of the buildings, open space and homes that will be affected by the East West Link in the municipality. See the PDF doc here: Summary of Impacts – East West Link The list is long: Land and Open Space: • Debneys Park, Flemington • Delhi Reserve, Travancore • Travancore Park, […]
City of Melbourne report recommends East West Link with changes
The City of Melbourne has recommended to its councillors the East West Link should go ahead with key changes. This may be in line with a vote by councillors in August declaring the City “does not support the East West Link project as announced”. In a draft submission to go to Council on Tuesday 10 December, […]
Moonee Valley Council helps residents fight the tollway
For more information, see the Council website.
Making a submission on East West Link
Two weeks remain. Submissions on the East West Link are due 5pm December 12. The process may seem complicated: there is a cover sheet, confusing terms of reference, details to include. Here is a simple checklist for completing a submission: What to do: Put in a submission by 12 December 2012 Complete a cover […]
Tunnel, Tollroads … Action
What does a community do when construction vehicles, tollroads and trucks are bearing down? It takes action. Julia Cusack is a resident in Brisbane St, Ascot Vale. She is horrified by the impact of the Ormond Rd off-ramp. With neighbours, she has letter-boxed her street and organised a community meeting to be held Monday 25 November […]
Children’s park to car park
Three years ago, an asphalt wasteland in Flemington was transformed into an adventure playground with a flying fox and ropes course. If the East West Link is built, the playground will go and may be replaced with a car park. Tony lives a kilometre away in Ascot Vale and brings his two children to Debney’s […]
Rare beauty in Royal Park West
Roslyn Nataprawira shares the sights and sounds of the wetlands in Royal Park. 8:51 am A fresh spring morning. We take the main path heading east from the car park. A flitting Willie Wagtail is here to greet us; not many people around. A man is doing push ups on the edge of the playing field […]
Impact statement not required to assess impact
Changes to the ‘Major Transport Projects’ Act mean the impact statement on the east west link is no longer required to assess the impact of the project. The Major Transport Projects Facilitation Amendment (East West Link and Other Projects) Bill 2013 , passed by the Napthine government on 4 September and now in force, dilutes the requirements of the […]
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