Wednesday, 5 June 2019

Mr GUY: I raise the direct concerns of my local residents about the government’s conduct in the planning stages of the North East Link. The RACV has highlighted that traffic is at its worst in Melbourne’s north-east. While many talk about bad traffic in the north-east, we are living the worst of it. But north-east Melburnians want this issue solved sensibly, not in a head-rush, haphazard approach. Residents of the Applewood retirement village back onto the Eastern Freeway. It is some of the best over-55s living in Australia. They want simple answers about removal of vegetation that currently acts as a noise wall for their homes. When they cannot get simple answers about vegetation removal, despite the authority having full knowledge of what is planned for this section, they feel, quite rightly, that they are being misled, poorly treated and, frankly, lied to.