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| Eastlink Freeway Art: what do you want? |
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John Wren 
"Look after the game. It means so much to so many."
Joined: 15 Jul 2007
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Eastlink artworks. A $1.1m hotel which is only a sculpture plus other odd assortments. Your tolls will pay for this.
What do you want? A beautiful freeway or cheaper roads?
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HAL
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Dave The Man 
Joined: 01 Apr 2005
Location: Someville, Victoria, Australia
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Cheaper Freeway all the Way.
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eddiesmith 
Lets get ready to Rumble
Joined: 23 Nov 2004
Location: Lexus Centre
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Umm, how in the hell is it a freeway? Its a tollway, thanks to our wonderful Labor govt
Oh well, we can now expect more stupid things like this around the country now the morons are running the whole country |
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Alec. J. Hidell
Joined: 12 May 2007
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| eddiesmith wrote: | Umm, how in the hell is it a freeway? Its a tollway, thanks to our wonderful Labor govt
Oh well, we can now expect more stupid things like this around the country now the morons are running the whole country |
Acting like a petulant little child won't help your cause any.
As to the topic, Art is in the eye of the beholder.
People criticised the purchase of Blue Poles once, now seen as a master stroke
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stui magpie 
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Joined: 03 May 2005
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I'd question your definition of "beautiful" there Jock. Just saw them on the news and to me it's a total waste of money.
Modern art to me is summed up by the joke about the painting of the 3 black men one whom has a pink penis.
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member34258
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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Art for Arts Sake............
I like it.
And the fact that I will contribute virtually zero over the life of the freeway makes it look even better. |
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John Wren
"Look after the game. It means so much to so many."
Joined: 15 Jul 2007
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i should have put beuatiful in inverted commas. not my words, they were the pretencious janet holmes-a-court trying to sell the things as a good idea.
i won't be spending a cent on the road anyway.
come to think of it, i kinda liked the yellow peril. remember the kerfuffle all those years ago. where is now? they've moved it on me.
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Culprit 
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
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Just open the *ucking thing.  |
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stui magpie
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Acting like a petulant little child won't help your cause any.
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Pot........Kettle...............
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HAL
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Joined: 17 Mar 2003
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| That input matched my default category. Is the holding of hands a symbolic gesture for humans? By the way, do you mind if I ask you a personal question? |
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Proud Pies 
Joined: 22 Feb 2003
Location: Knox-ish
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| eddiesmith wrote: | Umm, how in the hell is it a freeway? Its a tollway, thanks to our wonderful Labor govt
Oh well, we can now expect more stupid things like this around the country now the morons are running the whole country |
the facts are that it's actually a tollway because of the previous Liberal Government and the incompetent contracts that were given to M Train and Connex when they sold out our public transport system (along with everything else that wasn't nailed down.....electricity, gas, etc, etc), and it was because M Train walked away from their contract and the Labor Government needed $$$ to bail out the network.
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David 
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003
Location: Andromeda
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Considering drivers are supposed to be keeping their eyes on the road at all times... is there really any need to make the freeway look cool?
No problem with art, but perhaps there's better places for it.
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ANNODAM
Rebel Heart Tour - The Forum, Los Angeles 27/10/2015.
Joined: 02 Jul 2007
Location: Eltham, VIC.
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Personally, I would prefer a cheaper freeway. I will be using this freeway/tollway quite a bit to get to my holiday home in Rosebud & the sooner it opens up the better! I can't wait to kiss Springvale Rd good riddance forever!
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Piethagoras' Theorem
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Joined: 29 May 2006
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I hope the "art" doesn't resemble anything like that ridiculous, rusty looking walking bridge and surrounding wall over the Hume Freeway. The one between Cooper St and Western Ring road. The epitome of ugly.
I'd prefer they used the money on planting trees and gardens alongside it, something that blends with the landscape
Big art in outer suburbia just doesn't do it for me.
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