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Celebrating a century SEAFORD resident Geoff Bydder celebrated his 100th birthday with friends and family last week. Mr Bydder turned 100 on Thursday. A surprise party was planned for him by his friends at the Belvedere Bowls Club. Mr Bydder enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in April 1940, and later joined the Australian Army. After being discharged in 1946, Mr Bydder raised four children. His wife Normie remains by his side today. CENTENARIAN Geoff Bydder with wife Normie and their dog . Picture: Gary Sissons
More cash for roads, car park in budget Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au THE newly released federal budget features extra taxpayer funding for the upgrade of Hall Road and for new car parks at Frankston Station. The 2021/2022 budget contains an extra $56.8 million in funding for the Hall Road project. The federal govern-
ment has now committed a total of just over $141 million to the upgrade. An additional $19 million will go into expanding car parking at Frankston Station, taking the federal government’s total commitment to $43.5 million. In a statement the Committee for Greater Frankston celebrated the car park funding, but said that “promised new commuter parking at Seaford and Kananook stations would
not be built”. “The new Frankston multi-deck is long overdue, 45 years actually, but now is really just a stopgap measure, a temporary fix,” Committee CEO Ginevra Hosking said. “Inadequate public transport to and through Frankston, and its consequence – an over-dependence on overly expensive parking – has become a barrier to economic growth and job
creation in our CBD.” No extra money was included in the budget for the trouble-plagued proposal to electrify and duplicate the Frankston line to Baxter. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that projects such as Hall Road and the Western Port Highway upgrade, which received another $30 million in the budget, would help with “creating jobs, boosting business investment,
while securing Australia’s COVID recovery”. “From building the intermodal Melbourne needs for a better future for freight and productivity, to improving the key road connections in the outer suburbs and regional areas - these projects will support more than 3,000 direct and indirect jobs across Victoria,” he said. Continued page 3