"Widening roads to solve traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity,"says Walter Kulash, a traffic engineer from Orlando, Florida - something to keep in mind when contemplating the planned roadworks on Hoddle Street.

This is quoted from Removing Freeways - Restoring Cities, an article by John Norquist published by the Preservation Institute. Our East Melbourne villagers might also find fellow feeling with some of the tenets of this group which hold that big government and big business are taking control of and potentially damaging our natural and social environments at the core of which are individuals, families, communities and small businesses.