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CLAY target shooters Laetisha Scanlan and James Bolding represented the bayside area and Australia at the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. Target practice sessions took place at Frankston Australia Clay Target Club. See story page 4. Picture: Gary Sissons
Protest against ‘road to nowhere’ Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au A PROTEST against the planned Mordialloc freeway landed on the doorstop of state MP Tim Richardson last week. About a dozen Residents Against Mordialloc Freeway (RAMF) protesters visited the Labor MP’s Nepean Highway office on Monday (23 April) to make their discontent known about possible environmental impacts of the project.
Concerns about the impact of the $375 million bypass on the nearby Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands and the possible obstruction of the flight path of rare and endangered birds have been flagged by RAMF. The 9-kilometre Mordialloc bypass will link the Mornington Peninsula Freeway in Aspendale Gardens to the Dingley Bypass “It’s becoming a sky road and there’s going to be a lot of concrete and noise,” RAMF president Scott Fothergill said. “Most of it will be an elevated road.”
Mr Fothergill also believes traffic “bottlenecks” will occur at Dingley. “It’s basically leading into another gridlock.” The Labor state government announced earlier this month that the bypass will be a freeway without tolls. “People have come up with excuses for so many years on why not to build this project,” Mr Richardson told The News. “This will get tens of thousands of cars off local roads. It has to be done but we respect the environmental ef-
fects statement and the process and making sure mitigate environmental risk.” RAMF group secretary Alex Breskin, who has previously stood as a state and federal candidate for The Greens, said changing the Mordialloc bypass to a freeway made no difference to potential damage costs to the environment. “The upgrade of the Mordialloc bypass to Mordialloc Freeway confirms our fears this road will adversely impact the local environment, and further divide our community. It entrenches car
dependency when we know this money could be spent on improving public transport in the area,” Mr Breskin said. “Residents would much rather new solutions such as those proposed by the Rail Future Group with light rail that links our communities rather than an outdated freeway that would go nowhere.” RAMF is urging concerned residents to attend a Kingston Residents Association forum at Mordialloc Neighbourhood House, 457 Main Street, Mordialloc at 7.30pm on Thursday 26 April.