I am concerned at newspaper reports that the Peninsula Link will
somehow be a solution to the absolutely dreadful traffic situation in
Frankston. The fact is that whilst the new freeway will take some
traffic around Frankston, there will be a considerable amount of
traffic continuing to funnel through the Frankston Freeway /
Cranbourne Road interchange.
It is now a nightmare trying to travel East/West along Cranbourne
Road. This is forcing cars north on to Beach Street (which is now at
a standstill at peak times) or further south past the University to
try and get around the snarls.
Furthermore, people trying to get home into Frankston are trying to
get off the freeway early at either Rutherford Road, Seaford Road or
Dandenon g Road and then are chasing along rat runs (Dandenong Road
East for example) to try and get home.
Peninsula Link will not fix these problems.
The latest in a litany of disastrous solutions is the laughable
P-Turn. What an absolute joke. The P-Turn will make it easier to get
off the Frankston Freeway but is going to make it even worse for
East-West traffic. A lot of the people who stand to benefit most from
the P-Turn do not live in Frankston!
The pattern starting to emerge is that whilst the Victorian Government
is bending over backwards to help other communities (the Dandenong
bypass, the Ringwood bypass, the Deer Park bypass) absolutely nothing
is being done to help the people who live in Frankston. Obviously the
parliamentarians in these areas have enough influence with Spring
Street to get results for their local communities.
My question is - who is standing up for Frankston?
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