1. Flemington Road interchange – but where? The Ministerial determination says the development plan needs to include a new connection between the declared project and Flemington Road. The approval only specifies the land coloured in the picture above. So where can a new interchange be located? One suggestion is that they may slide from the […]
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Minister approves East West Link but final design unknown
The Minister for Planning, Matthew Guy, has approved the stage one of the East West Link but has ignored key recommendations from the planning panel to reduce impacts from the project. Mr Guy announced on Monday that he has granted relevant approvals for the project on the condition that the Linking Melbourne Authority redesign parts of the […]
What’s been said about the East West Link
Here begins a summary of the comments made about the East West Link over the past 28 days at the public hearings. More will be added to this list as the hearings wrap up today and tomorrow. What’s been said about the East West Link 1. The process has lacked rigour Three engineers told the […]
Presenters concur: CIS is inadequate
By Petra Stock A common thread of inaccuracies in the CIS ran through Thursday’s presentations on various topics including the zoo, Royal Park ecological values, climate change, agglomeration and impacts on local residents. The two presentations on the zoo by Michael Petit and me highlighted the complete lack of assessment of impacts on the zoo, […]
LMA property acquisition tactics come under scrutiny
Tell them they’re dreaming By Andrew Herington The theme for Day 21 was the rights of homeowners and the shocking disregard LMA have had for fair process. As Ben Hardwick from Slater and Gordon pointed out – it seems like nothing has been learned from the shambolic property resumption process followed for the Regional Rail […]
EPA doesn’t stand in the way of East West Link
By Andrew Herington. It was a bad day for local residents wanting protection from increased pollution. Despite all the evidence, it seems the EPA has shut its eyes and wants to give the green light for the EWL to proceed with no variation to the conditions. On noise, the EPA argued against having any improved […]
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 […]
THE RUBBER HITS THE ROAD AS YARRA SETS OUT THE CASE AGAINST
By Andrew Herington Week four started with a distinct change of tone. Adrian Finanzio, counsel for the City of Yarra delivered a comprehensive analysis of the merits of the LMA case for the freeway and the weakness of the legal arguments on which they have relied. Summarising the arguments presented over the last 15 days, […]
Day 10: LAWYERS VERSUS EXPERTS AT TEN PACES
By Andrew Herington It seems that the next few days are destined to settle into a pattern of ‘lawyers versus experts at ten paces’. The LMA has introduced its arguments and laid out the case. The Councils are now seeking to demolish it brick by brick whilst the LMA try to defend their original choice […]
PREVIEW OF WEEK 3 – COUNCILS PUT the CASE AGAINST
By Andrew Herington The hearings have now moved into the second of three phases. For the next ten days, we will be hearing from the Councils and their expert witnesses putting the detailed case against the East West Link. This will be followed by two days of presentations from the EPA and local politicians before […]
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