Well, I moved to Berry in January, and I thought that I was going to be part of a beautiful small community where life just meanders on blissfully...

How was I to know that a proposed by pass to the town would change that...

The problem is that some residents on one side of town don't like the decision that the RTA has made about the building of a by pass road to take the trucking traffic away from the town. It seems like this is being driven by several people who are mainly from Sydney and who have weekend houses and are concerned about the proximity of the new road impacting their real estate values. One of the people is apparently connected to the Labour Party in Sydney and is trying to stir up discontent in the town and then motivate his buddies in Sydney.

Here is a video that was shown on State Line putting forward the views of the people who want the RTA study to stand.


My view is that with Peak Oil the state government should be focusing on investing in improving rail transportation rather than spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer's money on building more roads. However, there are probably more votes in building roads than in improving rail.

What has happened now is that a peer review has been commissioned to check the original studies. The problem with this is that I can see this being made into a method of hiding the shenanigans that take place in MacQuarrie Street behind closed doors.