Highway to Hell

Eastlink is finished. To celebrate the public was allowed to cycle or walk on segments of it before it opened up to real traffic. We were supposed to do the 30km bike ride but that didn't eventuate so we went down to walk in the Melba tunnel instead with the little fella and grab some snags at the "thothage thithle".

I'm not exactly sure whether we were celebrating another public asset being privatised or all the extra traffic that will get dumped on the Eastern freeway (heading into the city) and Heidelberg (heading towards/from the Northern Ring road) but they had a pretty good turnout in any case. Obviously this is all about me and how it affects my quality of life. I don't often need to head down to Frankston after all. I don't even own a pair of moccasins. For the non-Melbourne dwellers, Frankston is Bogan country (not that there's anything wrong with that). It might be useful for the odd occasion that we would like to head down to Sorrento or there abouts. But I'm expecting that the extra daily traffic I will need to deal with will make this seem fairly trivial. Time will tell...

/rant

Here's some piccies from the walk:



























We don't have many tunnels in Melbourne, but I do have fond memories of driving through tunnels in London as a boy. I never got to go through the channel tunnel to France though as it wasn't completed before we migrated to Oz. I hope I never break down in the Melba tunnel - there is a large dodgem van that comes to push you through in that instance, and I don't know how much my car would enjoy that. I noticed lots of revenue cameras as well - no speeding in the tunnell kiddies!!! Ok so maybe I lied about the rant being over.

Anyway, I'm sure Eastlink will solve alot of people's problems, just not mine. Maybe I'm not looking at this right. Maybe I need a holiday house in Sorrento to change my perspective...