Hi Ada With regard to the Avenue in Bacchus Marsh, the Moorabool Shire has been working on replacing trees (cloning) due to the age of trees, their decline, and their tendency to drop branches due to the drought, compaction, ... etc. With regard to the current intersection work for new freeway entry with the Anthony's Cutting bypass, that discussion is still ongoing. (Personal thoughts withheld.) Regards, Andrew On 6 Nov 2010 at 11:13, Ada Ackerly wrote: > Hello Listers, > > Today, in the "Age" gardening section, our attention is drawn to: > > An exhibition of photographs, taken by Rosemary Simpson's daughter Sarah > Wood, of the six heritage-listed AVENUES OF HONOUR has been opened at > Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance by historian Geoffrey Blainey. I will > run until the end of January 2011. > > I well remember the lonely fight to preserve the Ballarat Avenue and the > threats to the Bacchus Marsh Avenue due to road widening.Does anyone > know how successful each of those struggles were? How much was lost? > Replacement trees planted? Plaques remade and re-attached? > > Both of those activities co-incided with one of my "withdrawals through > illness" and I have often wondered. > > Regards Ada Ackerly > >