Janet Rice

Peninsula Link and climate change - My blog action day post

For a sombre and completely up to date reminder of what’s really driving transport policy today , beyond the platitudes of transport plans, have a read of the independent panel report assessing the Environmental Effects Statement on the Frankston bypass

First let’s remind ourselves that the go ahead for this road was given by the Premier prior to the Environmental Effects Statement being completed. It highlights that once a road is on the agenda, preordained, not only will nothing stand in the way of it being built, but that the power of the road building industry, feeding and catering as it does to our society’s car dependency, is sufficient to overturn democratic and theoretically objective checks and balances in the system.