“It is a fine, intact, influential and pivotal example of a freeway.”
Victoria’s heritage authority wants one of Melbourne’s busiest roads, the Eastern Freeway, on the official register of protected historic places.
“It is a fine, intact, influential and pivotal example of a freeway,” Mr Avery wrote in his recommendation. “Its termination at Hoddle Street/Alexandra Parade became the rallying point for protesters concerned about the impact of freeways in general, and well as those opposed to the direct impact of the freeway on the surrounding suburbs,” Mr Avery wrote.
“We have beautiful heritage homes in established suburbs … where the so-called heritage experts who work for this Labor government are more than happy to see beautiful old homes, seemingly on a monthly basis, be destroyed yet they go to this level of trouble to protect the Eastern Freeway.”
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