Good morning Minister, last night I attended Bibra Lakes Community forum on the Murdoch Activity Centre Extension. It was clear that the information and answers were to pave the way for the Cockburn preferred option 4 over MRWA option 2, in fact expect numerous petitions this week to that end. Both options fail to serve the majority of Road users. It fails to recognize that Cockburns is a destination for Traffic; it in fact induces traffic. To say the MAC is solely there to service Murdoch totally ignores the following; the industrial and commercial hub of some 100s of hectares off North Lake Rd and Stock Rd have tens of thousands of workers. Ignoring the AMC and Cockburns coastal population and forecasted population explosion over the next decade imagine the traffic generated to this area! The traffic is not Mainly destined to Fremantle and merely travelling through Cockburn to get there. Let’s say there are only 20,000 workers in the North Lake Road to Stock Road environs; that’s 40,000 daily traffic movements a day by itself. Report after report commissioned by Cockburn showed traffic forecasts that validated Roe 8 as 80% of the Roe 7 traffic was Cockburn destined. Ok Roe 8 is dead so a compromised Extension is on the table. Please don’t spend $100 million on Road Infrastructure that is destined to fail. I urge you to read the ARLUP 2013 DTS and the City of Cockburn Officers analysis of both the 2006 and 2013 DTS reports done in 2015. http://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=bd23de6f-c32f-447b-ac32-6ff264b7d118&subId=401884 Unfortunately the DTS 2013 has been buried and is not discoverable on the net nor City of Cockburn web page; I hope to correct this shortly. Found it and now put back on COC website. https://www.cockburn.wa.gov.au/getattachment/d5e31356-6bb4-478d-8529-adfb854e852b/ecm_4293802_v1_district-traffic-study-2013-–-arup-pty-ltd-pdf.aspx However the City of Cockburn Officers report has not been “lost”. This summarizes the 2006 and 2013 reports - https://www.cockburn.wa.gov.au/getattachment/c9ca1ce0-8325-4435-bc29-cdce9842298e/ecm_4360245_v1_agenda-ordinary-council-meeting-13-august-201-pdf.aspx Refer item 16-1 page 63) and pages 290 to 293 for attachments. The best solution is a grade separated roundabout to Farrington are and a Roe Highway. This negates the need for 3 extra roundabouts and allows efficient Highway standard flow. It recognizes both Cockburn and Melville as a destination. We cannot allow Bibra Drive to be put under so much traffic load that it needs to be upgraded to 4 lanes. We need to accept as planned by Cockburn already that Farrington Road will need to be 4 lanes. https://www.cockburn.wa.gov.au/getattachment/5a17e510-b7cf-431e-970f-542b09876f9a/ECM_6523561_v1_Regional-and-Major-Roadworks-2016-2030-V09-pdf.aspx refer item 54 Yes Farrington Road becomes a defacto Roe 8, but this is better than Bibra Drive being upgraded. The environmental impacts will leave the binned a Roe 8 in its wake. The MAC design concepts have gone from the sublime to ridiculous. Please help instil some sanity back. www.aph.gov.au