{"id":252742,"date":"2025-07-17T16:20:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=252742"},"modified":"2025-07-17T16:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:20:40","slug":"north-east-link-more-mature-trees-to-be-removed-more-damage-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=252742","title":{"rendered":"North East Link &#8211; more mature trees to be removed more damage done"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As expected, the Eastern freeway widening is going to be wider than originally indicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means that Koonung trail through the Valda wetlands has been redesigned- together with the whole Valda Wetlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result- more native vegetation to be removed to create yet another path. Given that the proposed site for the new works is outside of the construction zone, a sneaky Permit application has been made to demolish more native trees, including original River gums, outside of the designated work site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lies, lies and more lies from the project that should never have been undertaken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"454\" data-id=\"252745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image_2025-07-17_161833713.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image_2025-07-17_161833713.png 760w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image_2025-07-17_161833713-300x179.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"960\" data-id=\"252744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image_2025-07-17_161824037.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image_2025-07-17_161824037.png 526w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image_2025-07-17_161824037-164x300.png 164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" data-id=\"252743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image_2025-07-17_161812974.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image_2025-07-17_161812974.png 720w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image_2025-07-17_161812974-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Objections must be made by 29 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lies, lies and more lies from the project that should never have been undertaken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":252745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[993,7590,8269,8],"class_list":["post-252742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-melbourne","tag-north-east-link","tag-vicroads","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252746,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252742\/revisions\/252746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/252745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}