Road duplication blowout only half the problem for Mernda and Doreen residents

By Clay Lucas
Updated September 5 2016 - 10:13am, first published 9:14am
Jason Reid on Yan Yean Road in Doreen, where he moved in 2011. Since then, the suburb's population has doubled.  Photo: Paul Jeffers
Jason Reid on Yan Yean Road in Doreen, where he moved in 2011. Since then, the suburb's population has doubled. Photo: Paul Jeffers
Charmaine Brillanti moved from Mernda to near Greensborough to escape traffic problems.  Photo: Simon O'Dwyer
Charmaine Brillanti moved from Mernda to near Greensborough to escape traffic problems. Photo: Simon O'Dwyer

Before he bought in 2011, Doreen resident Jason Reid did his homework: he looked at the traffic problems on Yan Yean Road and saw that VicRoads had previously done planning works to fix them.

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