ATTACKS DISHONOURABLE (Letters, March 18)
■ Unfortunately, a pro-Woolpack supporter has launched an unpleasant attack on me using a pseudonym.
This continues a long history of personal attacks, abuse and swearing by Woolpack supporters towards those who have successfully preserved an intact Bacchus Marsh Avenue of Honour in repeated rulings from 2010 to 2014.
Those arguing for Woolpack have been caught on Facebook or elsewhere using words like “paedophile’, “rockspider”, “dropkick”, “nuff-nuff” and much worse towards those mounting a sensible argument for an intact avenue.
At the Heritage Council hearing, supporters of the avenue were the subject of witnessed physical and verbal attacks.
I have had my family, my house and my profession attacked.
The Avenue of Honour/Woolpack Road issue has been repeatedly examined. All rulings have rejected roadworks across the avenue.
The strangely named “Honour for All” group continues to produce misleading information, incorrect statements and promote attempts to waste more ratepayer money and more failed progress.
It is time for the first sensible plan in years to go ahead. It is time for the inappropriate behaviour of some members of our community to cease.
DAMIEN STRANGIO BACCHUS MARSH
AVENUE WORKS WELCOME (Weekly, March 18)
■ I would like to qualify the statements made by Malcolm Trask.
He states: “The big problem for the Avenue of Honour is that the eastern half is currently seeing 300 to 400 heavy truck movements a day.”
What he does not say is that 90 per cent of those are due to local deliveries, quarry trucks and company trucks that would not use a truck bypass anyway. That was the findings of the recent VicRoads traffic study.
He also states: “Despite repeated warnings from arborists, it’s continued to be used as a truck route and will put the avenue’s long-term survival in peril.”
This was disproven by expert testimony during the Heritage Victoria hearings regarding the Avenue of Honour.
These experts said that the trucks will not measurably affect the lifespan of the elm trees.
SCOTT K VIA WEB
