The Linking Melbourne Authority has begun its fake consultation.

As we were warned at the meeting, the project proponent has opened a forum where the “conversations” are all about aspects of the decision to build a road tunnel, but not the decision itself.

At the trains not toll roads launch,  Dr Sophie Starup, who’s studies  transport mega-projects warned that:

• To question a sovereign decision is to question the right of the sovereign to make the decision.
• Sovereign Decisions once take are not subject to question – especially not by rational debate
• The sovereign will only chnage a decision if the right to do so is established by a higher power – you the voters.

The “Conversations” are controlled by the Authority.  You can’t add your own conversation – like questioning whether the road should be built instead of a train line. Continue Reading…