Protect Our Heritage Inc mission is to inform the local community that their local council, City of Whittlesea, strategic planners have pre-planned but the State Government and VicRoads are failing to deliver our communities overall transport infrastructure and therefore failing to address the needs of current local residents and businesses which will also support or growing future residents and businesses.
The up-grading of the pre-planned E6 Arterial Rd to a freeway/tollway? transport corridor will have adverse and disastrous affects for many residents personally and financially as well as a majority of surrounding local residents by creating a great wall between residents and their communities. The construction will also cause the disastrous destruction of further Federally Protected EPBC environments.
All local councillors, many residents, environmental and heritage groups are united the State Government's proposal of up-grading City of Whittlesea's planned improved arterial road to a freeway/tollway is not necessary and a waist of taxpayers money.
Public meetings have been arranged to inform local residents of the State Governments intentions and all City of Whittlesea residents are urged to attend.
Protect Our Heritage and Community Concerns:
1. Not sighted any traffic research report that justifies the proposed E6 transport/corridor.
2. The state government has encouraged increased residential growth yet failed to deliver our community strategic planning of transport infrastructure that has been required for many many years so how can an accurate report be done.
3. Transport and planning ministers have suggested that a new transport corridor will support the future needs for locals yet, cannot guarantee it will be a FREE transport corridor, and that it will assist with correcting current traffic congestion in and around the whole of our communities and save residents time to travel home. Maybe a few but we want a majority outcome.
4. Limiting on and off ramps so therefore a through road that really will not have the intention of being built to service local residents. 4. Intentions of it not being a FREEway which highlights it more than likely will be a TOLLWAY.
5. Proposed E6 development will be a huge cost to the developer so therefore the cost will have be recovered from local community residents, economic businesses and all other transport users.
6. If a TOLLWAY Increased costs for local community residents to travel everyday within there local community.
7. Cost incurred on all taxpayers for building a parallel transport corridor.
8. The existing Craigieburn Freeway and the proposed E6 run virtually parallel and is almost exactly the same length (23.5km) and both finish at the Western Ring Road.
9. Safety concerns for the impact on families within the communities when large transport carriers are within metres of their homes.
10. Offsetting: There has not been significant proof that offsetting works and saves federally protected land of significance which is EPBC protected which raises environmental concerns. (further info)
11. Proposed E6 varies with the land acquisition widths, which raises concerns if the reality of of a bigger economic picture is being drawn. 90m-180m-400m?
12. The bigger economic picture concern: It raises extreme concerns if the transport corridor is eventually to be again up-graded to service the Regional Rail Link intention of delivering increased goods purchased from overseas countries that will need to arrive at Altona and proposed up-grade Hastings Ports) as these products will then need to be distributed throughout Australia by only one or two very large privately owned transport companies. Encouraging the growth of importing overseas products is not only economically unsustainable for the future of our country and our communities but increasing the Rail transportation that carries containers of dangerous chemicals throughout residential communities and side by side public transport would be disastrous of any government to allow. (find out more)
