Tunnel News updates: July 6th – 8th

Selection of local news and online reporting of the East-West Link Needs Assessment.

Star News Group: Transport in their own write (8th July, 2008)
An East-West Link Needs Assessment submission-writing workshop has been hailed as a success by Greens MLC Colleen Hartland. Ms Hartland said about 20 submissions had been written during the two-hour session, held at the Hyde St church last Wednesday. (more details in link above)

Star News Group: Workshop helps submission (8th July, 2008)
Greens Party members Colleen Harltand and Miles Dymott have organised a submission writing workshop for Sunshine residents tomorrow night. (more details in link above)

Star News Group: No word from Libs (8th July, 2008)
The Liberal Party has failed to respond to Sunshine residents’ requests about whether the party would support a proposed road tunnel that required compulsory house acquisitions by the State Government. (more details in link above)

Star News Group: Fear vision may destroy homes (8th July, 2008)
Battler Margaret Copeland fears she will lose her home, which she spent 45 years paying off while raising six children on her own, due to a proposed road tunnel to connect Melbourne’s east with the West. (more details in link above) Continue Reading…