TUNNELS along EastLink are the first in Victoria to be lit by LED lights. Over four nights, 1066 high pressure sodium (HPS) lights were replaced with 1174 LED lights. Up to 60 technicians and 22 scissor lifts worked through the night to remove the old HPS lights and install the new LEDs. The toll road operator says the replacement LEDs are brighter and whiter than the orange HPS lights. “The upgraded lighting will improve safety for motorists, by making the driving task easier,” EastLink corporate affairs manager Doug Spencer-Roy said. Operators in the EastLink control room were benefiting from an…
Author: Bayside News
NEW pontoons have been installed in Mordialloc in a bid to make boating better and more accessible. Work was completed this month to install an accessible pontoon at Pier Road. Its main features will be wider gangways, intermediate landings, grab rails, and tactile surfaces. Work has also been completed on the installation of new floating pontoons at the Governor Road boat ramp. The new pontoons are longer than the existing ones to allow for more capacity. An update on the Better Boating Victoria website reads that it is also “working with the City of Kingston to upgrade the Governor Road…
FIRE fighters from Carrum Downs, Edithvale, Patterson River, Skye, and Frankston fire brigades were among those that helped to battle a huge blaze in Lyndhurst last week. At around 10pm on 17 July, firefighters were alerted to a fire at the corner of Thompsons Rd and McCormicks Rd in Lyndhurst. They were told that a large glasshouse was ablaze. Fire crews arrived to find the building burning. They worked into the early hours of the morning to extinguish it. A statement on the Carrum Downs Fire Brigade Facebook page read “Crews worked through the night and well into today to…
By Associate Professor Janet Stanley and Professor John Stanley* THE natural areas of Melbourne are under threat at the same time as there’s growing evidence of their importance for humans. In the late 1960s, the Victorian government designated 12 areas, covering 17 municipalities around Melbourne, as land set aside for recreation, conservation, farming and resource utilisation purposes. These areas are known as green wedges. Over the past 60 years the world has changed. The rapid population growth and expansion of Melbourne’s footprint, along with the subsequent losses in biodiversity as increasingly scarce natural environments disappear, are particularly important to the…
POLICE are appealing for public assistance to solve a vicious assault in Frankston North from last December. At around 8.14pm, 14 December 2020, a victim became involved in a verbal altercation with unknown men outside Seagull’s Fish and Chips on Excelsior Drive in Frankston North. The victim was then physically assaulted. One man punched the victim in the head, then another kicked him in the head while he was on the ground. The offenders fled the scene, then the victim left after getting up. The victim sustained serious facial injuries. Police believe two or three males were involved in the…