The Age: East-west link: leaked email (19 August 2013)

From: Douglas Harley/VicRoads@VICROADS

To: David Shelton/VicRoads@VICROADS,

Cc: ############/VicRoads@VICROADS Date: 17/04/13 08:23 AM

Subject: What should VicRoads do about Linking Melbourne using a Non-Government Model for modelling the East West Link?

Hello David,
Please see below a more comprehensive answer the the question you asked me at our meeting in your office on the morning of Monday the 15th of April.  i.e. Last Monday morning.
Your question was, “What should VicRoads do when another authority is presenting it with modelling done with a model other than VITM.”  The question was in the context of a discussion about the modelling that Linking Melbourne is doing for the East West Tunnel.

My response is as follows. These comments are an expansion of my reply to you at that meeting. Continue Reading…