North-Eastern Metropolitan Region
Aiv PUGLIELLI (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (14:52): (656) My question today is to the Minister for Transport Infrastructure, and it relates to the North East Link toll road. In the tunnels urban design and landscape plan for this disastrous toll road part of the design intent of the project is ‘touching the earth lightly’. Let me say that again for the people in the back: the 20-lane North East Link toll road claims that it will touch the earth lightly. Minister, can you please outline how this project can possibly meet this intent for the people of Banyule and Whitehorse and Manningham and beyond when this toll road is tearing the environment and communities to shreds? I think instead of ‘touch the earth lightly’ you actually mean ‘create a scorched earth hellscape’.