We’re all to blame for waste
Melton council’s decision to block further expansion of the Boral tip doesn’t stop the requirement for such a facility.
No one who opposed this can say they don’t somehow contribute to the waste that is dumped there.
Deborah Hocking, Hillside
Weeding woes
I pity the poor bugger who has to do the weeding along the centre of Centenary Avenue in Melton. What a catastrophe! Where on earth did they get that weed- infested sand and soil from?
How could the council get it so wrong?
Caroline Springs Boulevard copped the same thing. Hope the council is paying him well for a never-ending job.
Margy, Kurunjang
Traffic plan falls short
Opposition leader Daniel Andrews has made his contempt for the people of Melbourne’s west very clear by pledging to block construction of the western stage of the East West Link.
If he gets his way, the west will never get a second river crossing.
Apparently those travelling between the western suburbs and the city will just have to endure more congestion and delays under a Labor government.
It’s been well documented that the West Gate Bridge carries more than 165,000 vehicles a day, a figure expected to rise to 235,000 a day by 2031.
Mr Andrews asserts that his so-called West Gate distributor will solve the problem by taking 5000 trucks a day off the bridge. That is nonsense.
Removing less than 3 per cent of traffic from the bridge will solve nothing.
Mr Andrews’ recent scorn for motorists in Melbourne’s west is all the more extraordinary given that he has long spruiked a second crossing, starting from the western side of Melbourne.
Labor cannot be trusted.
It doesn’t care about the west and has no plan to deal with the problem of traffic congestion.
Bernie Finn, Western Metropolitan Liberal MP
