Re. Labor project promises to remove ‘thousands’ of trucks (Weekly, November 20)
So how many houses will need to be acquired in this process as part of Labor’s $18 billion alternative transport plan? An elevated road in Hyde Street, Yarraville – how unsightly will it be?
MATTHEW \ VIA ONLINE
It would probably be the industrial area around Hyde Street that might get acquired. That place is already unsightly as it is, with all the petroleum tanks and industrial warehouses.
RAHRAH \ VIA ONLINE
Re. Truck rally blocks road as mayor demands action (Weekly, November 13)
How sad that our entire infrastructure budget for the next 10 years is going to be wasted on the east-west link, instead of going towards the far more urgent upgrade of the West Gate Bridge and completion of the Ring Road.
ANDILEE \ VIA ONLINE
Given what this community has to put up with, asking for truck curfews during school crossing times seems pretty reasonable!
A LOCAL \ VIA ONLINE
Trucks should be using Francis Street anyway. Somerville Road is not built for truck traffic, such as it receives now – all you have to do to see that is look at the rail bridge in Yarraville, which is a mess and quite obviously not coping. A move for trucks to use Francis Street and a curfew on Somerville Road during school hours makes all sorts of sense.
SIMON JULIAN \ VIA ONLINE
Re. Inner-west schools ‘ready’ for swelling enrolments (Weekly, November 13)
Yarraville and Seddon are further from a state secondary school than anywhere else within 20 kilometres of the Melbourne CBD, despite having the equal highest population density in the entire city.
MARTIN ZAKHAROV \ VIA ONLINE
None of these schools are near Yarraville at all. What a joke from these self-interested people.
TONY FROM YARRAVILLE \ via online
Why was such huge capacity built in Altona when it was, and is, needed in Yarraville? What were you thinking?
ANDZREJ \ VIA ONLINE
