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Freeway’s first candle IT was a long haul with many metaphoric and literal potholes along the way, but it’s all smiles nowadays for the people and organisations involved with Peninsula Link freeway between Carrum Downs and Mt Martha. Government and corporate figures celebrated the 27-kilometre road’s first birthday late last month at the freeway control centre in Golf Links Rd, Frankston South, which is operated by Lend Lease, one of the members of freeway consortium Southern Way. Forgotten were the political fights over to toll or not to toll the road, criticism of the route, arguments about where on and off ramps should be constructed, heated discussion about damage to local roads during the more than three-year construction, and teething problems such as flooding of the $760 million road. Checking the control centre and one of its operators were Linking Melbourne Authority chief executive Ken Mathers, left, Lend Lease general manager Philip Naulls and Nepean MP Martin Dixon. Full story Page 7.
Police slam Link hoons By Chris Brennan POLICE have slammed the “disgraceful” behaviour of rogue motorists on Peninsula Link after more than 10,000 speeding drivers were detected in just one month, including one man clocked at well over double the 100km/h speed limit. Cameras detected more than 300 speeding offences a day between 17 December and 18 January, including 114 drivers who had their licences immediately cancelled after being caught driving more the 30km/h above
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the speed limit, eight of whom were clocked at speeds of more the 45km/h over the limit. Among them was a male driver clocked at 238km/h and later at 121km/h in a 60km/h zone. Police said the man would face dangerous driving charges and have his car impounded under anti-hoon legislation. Southern Metro road policing inspector Bryan Sharp said the results showed too many motorists were treating the freeway like a raceway and putting lives at risk. “It’s incredibly disheartening that
Rosebud highway patrol officers spotted a vehicle travelling at 132 in a 50 zone on Point Nepean Rd and then at 162 in a 60 zone on Jetty Rd at about 1am on Saturday 1 February. The 20-year-old Rosebud man was found to be driving on a suspended Provisional 1 licence and his car was unregistered. Police recently announced they would now be targeting low-level speeding in a campaign designed to make driving above the limit “as socially unacceptable as drink-driving”. Assistant Commissioner Robert Hill
said police across the state had been instructed to fine motorists guilty of setting their own “de facto” speed limits, including those travelling at as little as 1km/h over the limit. “The culture has shifted in respect of drink-driving; it’s now socially unacceptable for people to get behind the wheel of a motor car and drive while affected by alcohol, but the same cannot be said for speeding,” Mr Hill said. “Across our community, people don’t appreciate that low-level speeds can be just as dangerous as high-level speeding.”
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some people continue to ignore the risks and treat the freeway like a raceway,” he said. “It has been well publicised that there are cameras along Peninsula Link, and that police continually run operations to enforce the speed limits. “The fact that we are still finding such a high number of people speeding beggars belief.” Meanwhile, a suspended P-plate driver was arrested and charged and had his car impounded after being caught speeding at 162km/h in a 60 zone in Rosebud earlier this month.
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