A PROMINENT Colac businessman wants a Colac highway bypass below street level, beside the city’s railway tracks.
Push for below-ground bypass
Business leader Tony Baldwin and council candidate Michael Delahunty want a below-ground Colac bypass next to the city's railway line.
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Great that people are putting much time and effort to try to get a real public benefit issue discussed . It seems very expensive cf lake bypass http://lakecolac.blogspot.com with at least double the water entry risks of the under Yarra project.
As a former coordinating planner and ratepayer it concerns me greatly how the Council seem to think the proper discussion and consideration of these huge issues is going to occur.They weren’t elected to let consultants make all the discussion happen in the public sphere. They were elected to speak openly and to put the Hard decisions forward.
doesn’t “eliminate eight level crossings and 13 pedestrian rail crossings” actually mean *require* eight new overpasses and 13 pedestrian bridges ?
Meh!
Put in the bypass and how long will it take for shops in Murray Street to complain they are struggling because of the loss of business? They put their shops there knowing it was part of the Princes Highway then they want a ridiculous amount of money spent so they don’t have the traffic noise. Stop whinging.
If they don’t like the traffic, move their shops. There’s the cheapest option!
I agree that its easy to be confused in what is supposed to be a public interest debate by people who have particular local interests.The cost is incredible – why can’t Mulder’s own Department say so and save the people of Colac being treated like mushrooms and the last of the big spenders on all this . Nimbys can waste our opportunity to really discuss the options properly.
Are our Councillors so impractical that they can’t talk to a Meade, a Delahunty or a Vicroads person; talk to the issues raised by them.
When will this Council speak up in the public interest and stop some of the duck shoving and wild speculation that can be predicted to appear in the paper till the time when there is no money left for any bypass.