LET'S SCRAP THE DEAD-END FREEWAY AND REPLACE IT WITH A BIOLINK AND TRAIL.
Please join us to make this community project happen
Our Mission and Vision
Our Mission
The Friends of the Southern Peninsula Biolink are an environmental advocacy and action group located in Blairgowrie, Victoria. Our primary aim is to advocate for the scrapping of the dead-end freeway project from Rosebud to Blairgowrie and its replacement with an environmental biolink and community trail linking Blairgowrie to Rye and beyond.
Our vision for the Southern Peninsula Biolink and Trail
We believe that an environmental biolink and community trail linking Blairgowrie to Rye and beyond is the very best use that could be made of this easement, which has high environmental significance and value.
WHY THE OLD FREEWAY extension PROJECT will never happen
It would destroy the Tootgarook Wetlands, which have international environmental significance.
Read more about the Tootgarook Wetlands here
It would cost billions of dollars that the State of Victoria cannot afford and should not spend.
There will never be any votes in favour of moving the brief summer traffic slow downs around Rosebud ten kilometers west to Blairgowrie.
Projected population and traffic growth on the Peninsula's "pointy end" does not justify the expense
Today 5700 people live in Blairgowrie, Sorrento and Portsea. In 2041 the population is projected to be less than 6000. Two thirds of the accommodation units in Blairgowrie, Sorrento and Portsea are holiday houses and short term rentals. No freeway would ever be built for such small numbers of residents and holiday visitors.
The local community will vote against any politician who supports the dead-end freeway proposal
There will never be votes for spending billions of scarce Victorian taxpayers' dollars to speed up the summer holiday travel time for those who want to get to Sorrento or Portsea. Lots of them can afford helicopters!