(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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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 […]
Labor releases alternative transport plan
The Victorian opposition has released its alternative transport plan ahead of next year’s state election, but leader Daniel Andrews said he would still build the East West Link if legally binding contracts were signed prior to the election. Victorian Labor’s transport plan, Project 10,000, was released this morning. The plan is focused on “the increasing […]
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 […]
East West Link is ‘trucking’ awful
The East West Link will make Victoria the most productive state according to the ‘Freight State Plan’ released in August this year, despite the auditor general’s warning that more money needs to be poured into rail. In the plan, the $8billion road tunnel is touted as one of the key initiatives to ensure Victoria keeps […]
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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