The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 2

Page 2 The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday, March 17, 1987 will orbit Mack's campaign to undermine tunnel NEW ROADS TiwrT. HORNSBY ring road 3 from Blakehurst to Mona Vale and the Silverwater arterial from Menai to Pennant Hills Road and the Sydney-Newcastle freeway in the north. Completion of the eastern distributor. Outside Sydney, the plan involves upgrading of the Princes and Federal highways and the development of Appin Road to a four-lane standard. The Hume Highway wiL become a four-lane divided road with bypasses at Mittagong and Berrima, and the construction of a northern distributor will be completed.

Traffic consultants and engineers are to meet this morning to give their impression of what the Government should have included in Roads 2000. The meeting be held at Sydney Town Hall. than 2,500 private properties, park-lands, and open space, affected by Department of Main Roads building orders, to be released because they would be no longer, needed. These included the Lane Cove Valley and the Blue Gum Creek route. More than 400 of those properties, or land corridors, owned by the DMR could fetch $30 million.

Details of the second Spit Bridge have not been finalised, but is to be a high-level crossing. The plan also provides for: The construction of key flyovers to end congestion at Sydney's busiest intersections including ring route 33, the south-western, Castlereagh, and Gore Hill freeways, and the western gateway. Easier north-south cross-city travel involving the upgrading of system the linking of the existing roads to give "basic freeway" conditions around Sydney without traffic having to enter the central business district It involves the construction of the new Gore Hill and Castlereagh freeway to the north and north-west, completion of the Prospect arterial in the west, the south-western freeway and upgrading of the Southern arterial link. The while expressing general support for the plan, is concerned that land corridors will be dropped to make way for some urban freeways. Although Mr Brereton said that "unwanted corridors'' that are to' be sold would enhance property values, the NRMA believes they should remain or alternatives be provided.

Roads 2000 provides for more By TRACEY AUBIN, Civic Reporter Sydney is to have a 93-kilometre orbital route linking all major incoming highways, a second Spit Bridge to improve traffic flow, and another harbour crossing by the end of the century, the State Government announced yesterday. Although many of the features of the Government's long-awaited Roads 2000 program have already been announced, the Minister for Roads, Mr Brereton, said the plan was tying together all aspects of road construction as a "realistic blueprint to take us into the next The $14 billion plan does not represent any increased road spending, but rather is estimating that the current $1 billion-a-year funding will be maintained. The main aspect is the orbital By JOHN O'NEILL North Sydney Council is spending $15,000 of ratepayers money on an advertising campaign which it hopes will persuade the State Government to drop the harbour tunnel project. The first in a series of at least five advertisements appeared in the Herald yesterday. Another is on Page 7 today.

The first advertisement was headed: Mr Brereton, you have gone too far. It asked readers to "watch this The Mayor of North Sydney, Alderman Ted Mack, said last night that a public meeting in North Sydney three weeks ago called on the council to undertake the campaign. He said the council decided to take out the advertisements at a meeting two weeks ago. Only "two or three" aldermen out of 15 had opposed the campaign. "Mr Brereton (the Minister for Public Works, Ports and Roadsl has adopted a promotion role and at every step attempted to make the project a fait accompli.

But we feel that the Government is not yet committed to the whole project." Mr Mack said the campaign would focus on allegedly misleading comments made by Mr Brereton. "He has said time and time again that no public funds would be used in the project. He has also said it would remove the 'ugly Cahill Expressway. Mr Mack said that the project It's official: the Pitt Street plan is Calls to upgrade highways a failure to King Streets would be opened from March 28. This section, he said, had always experienced traffic flow problems.

Citing illegal parkers as one of the main reasons for slow traffic on arterial streets, Mr Mulock warned it might be to extend tow-away provisions to specific central business district streets. The chief executive of the NRMA, Mr George James, said he strongly supported the decision to reopen part of Pitt Street because it should relieve traffic congestion, particularly in George Street. on it a year as the Hume Highway, even though the Pacific Highway earned more traffic, the spokesman said. The NRMA said yesterday that the poor condition of the Princes Highway was discouraging tourism and causing higher service and industry costs on the South Coast The chief executive of the NRMA, Mr George James, called on the State Government to begin detailed planning of bypasses for the main South Coast towns to rid them of the adverse effects of trucks and other through traffic. 1 P.

By ROSS COULTHART Five weeks after it was closed, the State. Government has been forced to reopen over half the Pitt Street Mall, between King and Hunter Streets, because of traffic chaos in central Sydney. Announcing the move yesterday, the NSW Minister for Transport, Mr Mulock, denied the decision showed a lack of foresight by his department. The closure at Martin Place had only been intended as a three-month trial, he said. Mr Mulock admitted that the reopening of the mall meant the decision was typical of the Government's ad hoc "on the run" attitude to planning.

"The concept of long-term planning is down to looking to next week," he said. "Clearly, if they had more effective traffic planning behind them, then they would have foreseen the appalling traffic problems that have developed," he said. "It would not have been necessary to even consider the three-month trial period." Mr Mulock said the existing Pitt Street Mall between King and Market would not be affected. The section from Hunter concrete planter boxes erected in Martin Place on Pitt Street would have to be removed only five weeks after they were erected. Neither the Government nor the Sydney City Council, which was building the mall, was able to say how much it would cost to convert Pitt Street back to traffic use -and remove the planter boxes.

A spokesman for the Sydney City Council said the Lord Mayor, Alderman Sutherland, agreed with the Government's decision. The Opposition's spokesman on transport, Mr Bruce Baird, said the Warning halts ABC interview with Pilger fa i' HAVE GONE TOO From yesterday's Herald would cause enormous pollution and endanger North Sydney pedestrians. Connecting freeways would divert traffic and undermine small businesses in Cremorne, Neutral Bay and Crows Nest. Mr Brereton described the campaign as a scandalous misuse of ratepayers money. "Alderman Mack did not have the courage to identify himself or the council In today's advertisement, the minister said.

"He's out of touch with his constituency, the majority of whom support the tunnel. Focus more on cutting road toll, says police union The Australian Police Federation accused State police forces yesterday of concentrating on booking motorists instead of reducing traffic accidents. The federation's secretary, Mr Bob Page, told the House of Representatives standing committee on road safety no evidence existed to show increased bookings led to fewer road accidents. The eight-member committee, chaired by the Mrs Elaine Darling (Lab), began its inquiry into road safety and traffic law enforcement with a public hearing in Sydney yesterday. In a submission, Mr Page said police instead should issue more cautions to motorists, including written cautions.

He said police effectiveness should be measured by a decrease in accidents and not the "simple production of large numbers of "Despite repeated denials by each of Australia's police commissioners and their administrations that there is no minimum level or 'quota on traffic infringements it is the belief of rank and file traffic police that such a system does in fact exist," the submission said. "Police associations have received complaints over the years of members being disciplined with transfers or threats of transfers by their immediate supervisors for not producing sufficient 'bookings'." Such an approach meant enforcement would be concentrated in places where larger numbers of breaches occurred, but which were not necessarily high-risk areas. Mr Page said motorists committing minor breaches were now often ignored, but by issuing cautions, they would at least be stopped and spoken to by police. Lotto numbers The six winning numbers in Week 1 1 (Monday) Lotto drawn last night were: 4, II, 18, 22, 23, 40. Supplementary, 3.

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I i kk By GRAHAM WILLIAMS The ABC's AM program has cancelled an interview with John Pilger after a warning from ABC management. The program's presenter, John Highfield, revealed yesterday that AM had scrapped a live interview with John Pilger after being warned by management that statements the journalist had made about the ABC's managing director, Mr David Hill, were potentially defamatory. The statements arise out of controversy over Mr Pilger's interview with the Prime Minister, which Mr Hawke's office complained was edited in a slanted and misleading way. A stand-up row between Mr Hill and Mr Pilger is still going on over the issue, with increasingly angry, claim and counterclaim. Mr Highfield said yesterday: "The night staff of AM was contacted by senior management on Sunday, and as a result the message was conveyed to the morning shift that Pilger's response to Hill's statement was potentially defamatory, and although Hill was not considered generally to be a litigious person, we should exercise the greatest care in any item dealing with Pilger." Mr Highfield said there had been a surfeit of good material for the program.

"Given the timely warning by management and a legal officer as to the potential dangers with the Pilger item, it was decided to cancel a previously arranged live interview." Mr Hill said at the weekend that the Hawke interview did not measure up to the corporation's standards of professionalism. This provoked a strong response from Mr Pilger, who said Mr Hill's criticism was a direct intervention in news and public affairs under the guise of protecting journalistic standards. Last night, an angry Mr Hill said Mr Pilger had "blown the issue out of all and that he would not reply to "the outrageously defamatory" com ments the journalist had made. The ABC's acting managing The Pacific Highway north of Newcastle should be declared a national highway so it could be funded as the busiest commercial and tourist route in Australia should be, the North Coast Regional Organisation of Councils said yesterday. Government neglect had made the highway the most dangerous road in Australia, a spokesman for the organisation said.

Although most Australians believed the Pacific Highway was already a national highway, it was a State arterial road which had about one-third the money spent Cusack (DL 44) (062) 671671. CANTERBURY: Sflip(Mo John Pilger, left, and Mr Hill. director, Mr Stuart Revill, had been in charge of the investigation into the interview, and Mr Hill said that he had looked at the tapes and the evidence, and concurred with Mr Revill's finding that elements of the interview were unsatisfactory. "I do not think the interview listed the broad range of information I would have expected on the fourth anniversary of the Hawke Government," he said. A11 in all, it was not one of our better performances." Mr Pilger said that Mr Hill's comments that the interview did not measure up to the ABC's standards of professionalism were unfounded.

He pointed out that an investigation carried out by a senior ABC TV executive, Mr Bob Kearsley, had rejected claims that the interview was slanted. Mr Kearsley, controller of ABC TV radio and current affairs, inquired into the allegations by the Prime Minister's press officer, Mr Barrie Cassidy, about the interview, screened on this 7.30 Report. Mr Kearsley said yesterday that while he rejected the claims of misrepresentation and dishonesty, he had told Mr Pilger that the interview had not succeeded as a piece of current affairs TV, was not up to the ABC's journalistic expectations, and would have benefited from re-editing had time permitted. Mr Pilger said last night that Mr Kearsley had telephoned him some days ago to tell him that he had written to Mr Cassidy totally rejecting the complaints. He said the investigation by Mr Kearsley had not borne out the substantial allegations made by Mr Hawke's office.

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