Melville Citizens Voted No To Roe 8
A majority of Melville ratepayers who attended the special meeting voted against the city council’s move to support Roe 8.
96 people voted yes, 47 voted no after a two hour meeting at the Melville City Hall at 8:30pm. Many concerned residents presented their arguments to the council, they received rapture applause after each statement.
WA Greens MLC Lynn MacLaren said the electors have spoken and it’s time for the Melville City Council to withdraw their support to the Perth Freight Link.
“I’m sure for the council they are none too pleased that the residents have got together and spoke-out against their position. But they were quite happily taking,” Ms MacLaren said.
“As we heard tonight, there really hasn’t been enough consultation. These residents are very concerned about the health impacts, very concerned about noise impacts and extremely concerned about compensation.”
Some Melville residents vowed that they will fight to the end if the PFL construction is given the go ahead.
“… up until the very day that they bright that bulldozer to demolish my home, I will keep fighting because this is a ridiculous idea and it’s not fair the government can just do this,” Resident Tanya Smirke said.
During a power point presentation, Main Roads WA and the City of Melville aruged that the Perth Freight Link will need to be build as traffic will increase due to growing demands.
Main Roads said top down construction methods will be used to avoid foot print on the wetlands. It’s reported that Roe 8 tenders will be closed next week, the contracts will be awarded in October despite there is no environmental approval from the Commonwealth.
Meanwhile, Melville council’s presentation highlighted that 72 properties including 46 residential and 26 commercial buildings will be effected.
During the presentation, the council argued that rail is not a cost effective way to move freight to the Fremantle Port. They also claimed that Fremantle CBD residents will suffer noise pollution if the amount of freight on rail moves up from 14.2% (8 trains per day) 30% (16 trains per day).
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96 people voted yes, 47 voted no after a two hour meeting at the Melville City Hall at 8:30pm. Many concerned residents presented their arguments to the council, they received rapture applause after each statement.
WA Greens MLC Lynn MacLaren said the electors have spoken and it’s time for the Melville City Council to withdraw their support to the Perth Freight Link.
“I’m sure for the council they are none too pleased that the residents have got together and spoke-out against their position. But they were quite happily taking,” Ms MacLaren said.
“As we heard tonight, there really hasn’t been enough consultation. These residents are very concerned about the health impacts, very concerned about noise impacts and extremely concerned about compensation.”
Some Melville residents vowed that they will fight to the end if the PFL construction is given the go ahead.
“… up until the very day that they bright that bulldozer to demolish my home, I will keep fighting because this is a ridiculous idea and it’s not fair the government can just do this,” Resident Tanya Smirke said.
During a power point presentation, Main Roads WA and the City of Melville aruged that the Perth Freight Link will need to be build as traffic will increase due to growing demands.
Main Roads said top down construction methods will be used to avoid foot print on the wetlands. It’s reported that Roe 8 tenders will be closed next week, the contracts will be awarded in October despite there is no environmental approval from the Commonwealth.
Meanwhile, Melville council’s presentation highlighted that 72 properties including 46 residential and 26 commercial buildings will be effected.
During the presentation, the council argued that rail is not a cost effective way to move freight to the Fremantle Port. They also claimed that Fremantle CBD residents will suffer noise pollution if the amount of freight on rail moves up from 14.2% (8 trains per day) 30% (16 trains per day).
read the original article HERE
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