04-06-2008 Hundreds of The Greens 'No Road Tunnel' triangles made their way to Melbourne City Council's Planning Committee meeting last night, in the hands of angry Kensington, North Melbourne, Carlton and Parkville residents (Photo: residents in the council foyer queuing to get into the meeting).

The Planning Committee met in the packed-out Yarra room at the council chambers building, after having moved from its initial location due to the size of the crowd, to consider the city's response to Rod Eddington's East-West Link Needs Assessment (EWLNA) report.

The outcome of the meeting was hard to predict: all councillors, apart from Greens Cr Fraser Brindley and Cr Brian Shanahan, had previously given their in-principle support to the East-West tunnel. But the 400-strong capacity crowd made it abundantly clear that they expected council to overturn its original support for the tunnel. More info