By Andrew Herington. The East West Link Hearings enter their last full week today with 138 submissions due to be heard over five days of sitting and one evening session. After this week, there will be one more day of individual submissions on Monday 14th and the final day of Closing Addresses from the LMA and […]
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HEARINGS STRIKE CONGESTION AS SUBMITTERS QUEUE FOR THE MICROPHONE
By Andrew Herington Fourteen submissions were squeezed into Day 23 with a succession of detailed presentations on a diverse range of topics – baseball, impacts on Flemington, the use of sat-nav systems to reduce congestion, a new bike arterial to the eastern suburbs, the impact on Clifton Hill Primary School, air quality, Moonee Ponds Creek and […]
A STRANGE LULL AT HALF TIME
By Andrew Herington The tempo of the hearings dropped markedly today as the last of the council witnesses were heard. Michelle Zeibots, a Sydney academic who has specialised in induced traffic gave a strong performance explaining in detail the numerous factors that result in overall traffic increases when new road space is provided. The LMA has […]
NO MEETING OF MINDS ON SOCIAL IMPACTS
By Andrew Herington. The focus for Friday (Day 14) was on the social impacts of the East West link. The harsh impact on Kensington and Flemington under the viaduct coming under particular attention through the evidence of Bonnie Rosen, the social impact specialist called by the City of Moonee Valley. She gave lengthy evidence on […]
MOONEE VALLEY OPENS ITS CASE
By Andrew Herington The focus shifted today to the inner northern suburbs with expert witnesses appearing for the Moonee Valley City Council tackling traffic and noise impacts. Louise Hicks for the Council began by tabling a huge folder of detailed policies covering planning, transport, environment, open space and other issues. Quoting liberally from the documents […]
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, […]
East West Link casts shadow over community
(Apologies to Jim who is named as Treasurer in the video. He is the President.) Any school child knows that plants need sunlight to grow. When the Ormond Road off-ramp is built in Ascot Vale as part of the East West Link, the plants growing beneath it will die. Sadly, many of the plants are […]
Moonee Valley Council helps residents fight the tollway
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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 […]
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