Port Phillip Bay bridge vision for Brohier

If this chap thinks that a b-double freeway dissecting Rye, Blairgowrie, Sorrento and blue-blooded Portsea and then running through the Point Nepean National Park is a feasible or desirable project suggests that he is a dangerous fantasist. One would have thought that the billion dollar dredging project at the heads would have made a Hasting expansion a redundant concept and enhanced direct shipping access to the port of Geelong instead of creating a road freight stage in between. Perhaps this is a perverted form of "value adding" for the transport industry via extra freight costs. He is a transport industry lobbyist after all, so we know where his loyalties lie. Lobbyists should be proscribed from standing for public office. The potential for bias and even corruption is too great

If this chap thinks that a b-double freeway dissecting Rye, Blairgowrie, Sorrento and blue-blooded Portsea and then running through the Point Nepean National Park is a feasible or desirable project suggests that he is a dangerous fantasist. One would have thought that the billion dollar dredging project at the heads would have made a Hasting expansion a redundant concept and enhanced direct shipping access to the port of Geelong instead of creating a road freight stage in between. Perhaps this is a perverted form of "value adding" for the transport industry via extra freight costs. He is a transport industry lobbyist after all, so we know where his loyalties lie. Lobbyists should be proscribed from standing for public office. The potential for bias and even corruption is too great

These links would complete a ring road linking “twin cities by the bay” of Geelong and Melbourne with the Mornington Peninsula.Peak hour traffic could be channelled to flow at the same time, in both directions. This would save travel time by better use existing infrastructure, ease traffic flows, reduce pollution, and spread the impact of population growth over two cities. Savings will be through much greater use of over $200 billion of existing infrastructure, and a consequential reduction in the cost of its constant upgrade or adjustment. An alternative rail and truck route between the new Port of Hastings to the airports and industrial area to west of Melbourne will provide an east-west route allowing some major traffic flows, including many trucks, to by pass Melbourne compeletely.Federal funding for a complete ring road to connect transport links to three capital cities, Adelaide, Sydney and Hobart can be fully justified, including the cost of a bridge over the Port Phillip heads.
Traffic in one direction – empty road in the other? This can change. Avoid gridlock, save fuel, emissions, time and money. Transport corridors on either side of the Bay will connect for the first time. The sooner this is done the better - the more we will save. The east–west route crossing the whole of Victoria will create an enviable production and tourism domain for the whole of Victoria. The ends of the Mornington and Bellarine Peninsula’s can remain relatively untouched whilst enjoying unprecedented new access options.
The cost, which can be justifiably met by the Federal Government, is small compared with the benefits.
                                                                                                                                                        This can be an outstanding new icon for Melbourne.

Well, now, this is hilarious. Yes, we need a link, we are one of the only places in the world without one!
  I personally know the man who put this forward in the mid 1990's He had death threats, politicians threaten him, and the people of the Peninsula area threatening legal action! He was featured in The Age newspaper.
  This is a very needed infrastructure.It would be a great tourist attraction as well! ALL the geological, surveys, public opinion, and more has been already done. My dear friend has spent much of his own money to get this up and running, only to be shot down in flames by bureaucrats who wish to keep the voters happy in that area.
   It is time Victoria woke up to the fact that we NEED a bridge!
  My friend had a web page and a business name for the project.
Port Phillip Bay Bridge Project.

 Congrats on Mr Brohier for standing up and trying. I hope he has more success than my friend. If he wishes to speak to my friend about this, then we can arrange something.

The bridge should be seen in this context; We need to now move to a comprehensive, affordable, consistently priced,all-year basic transport link using ferries between Victoria and
Tasmania – for people, vehicles and freight. This can, with Canberra’s intervention, be fully implemented in days, and linked to the land transport corridor to Hobart. Tasmania could be a common out-of town destination or weekend holiday, like a trip to Switzerland from neighbouring European countries. A shorter route, Hastings to .orthern Tasmania, will allow quicker and more economical trips.Basic transport to all that Tasmania has to offer and sporting events in Tasmania will be within easy reach.
Fully eliminating this major omission to the “national integrated surface transport network” will give Victoria three interstate inter-capital transport corridors, not just the existing, two - also justified significant Federal funding. Based on Victoria’s geographical location, it is fully entitled to three links, just like Adelaide. All Australians are entitled to fair access to all states, not just some. Also, fair competition policy, advocated
internationally, should apply across the Victorian – Tasmanian border to Victorian manufactured consumables sent south and international exports through Victorian ports. The economic impact on tourism and on many other industries, of all year, consistently priced, transport equity and the movement of interstate
travellers through Victoria will be significant. National (sea) Highway policy, uncapped Federal funding, and adequate
shipping capacity are available now. Canberra seems close to closing this gap, but needs to go further by locking in comprehensive National Highway equivalence. Federal funding for a complete ring road to connect transport links to three capital cities, Adelaide, Sydney and Hobart can be fully justified, including the cost of the bridge over the Port Phillip heads.