Mayor Message – bridge route

Published on 23 June 2021

Message from Mayor Libro Mustica

I welcome this latest feedback opportunity by the NSW and Victorian State Governments and encourage all members of the local community to get involved and let their voices be heard.

Moira Shire Council, along with Federation Council, has held regular meetings with local MPs plus State and Federal Parliament Ministers to advocate for our communities’ clear preference for the Green Route.

I hope the results of this survey, as well as the results of Council’s plebiscite and Federation Council’s community vote which showed overwhelmingly locals wanted the Green Route, will sway the governments of both NSW and Victoria to publically declare support for the Green Route.

The Weir Bridge was due to close in 2020 with work on a new traffic bridge to at least have been started, but we are now half way through 2021 and still waiting on the two state governments to listen to our communities, and make a final decision.

We have created a Yarrawonga Foreshore Masterplan which has been designed to complement our community’s decision for the Green Route, and this Masterplan has been sent to both state governments to show we are ready to go with a fantastic development as soon as the new traffic bridge has been built.

It is difficult to progress improvement works with any confidence because the bridge route decision is still ‘pending’ after all these months and years, despite the residents of Yarrawonga and Mulwala voting in record numbers for the Green Route.

On behalf of Moira Shire Council I call on the NSW and Victorian governments to support community sentiment on both sides of the Murray and endorse the Green Route as the preferred bridge crossing.

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