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Lilydale fooods all teh time, mate. The weatehr has changed from 50 year floods to floods every year.

My thought too. The "porn star 'tache" was big back then.

Typical Shire of Yarra Ranges, years and years of meetings and planning and no real action. Too busy fighting legal businesses being built.

What else is going on in Dec 2021? Is covid over yet? :)

If people had used the railway for goods and passengers it would have been retained. But people prefer to drive their car. They like the freedom to get a truck load of goods delivered to their door. So no matter what benefits a railway could have provided it cannot be economic without substantial use.

@@smitajky difference between modern age and older decades!

Most industrial companies have already packed up and left the area.

I hear it has been totally stalled by greenie red tape. Crazy when you consider the devastation the feral Deer have made on Donna Buang.

I thought the red tape was an excuse brought on by a connected local minority who aren't in favour and don't want 'outsiders' enjoying their patch. No other trail projects have had quite the level of required studies so I've read. I wouldn't mind betting some greenies want to hit the trails too :) At least when it's finalised it won't be a case of neglecting any impact studies.

It's a lot better than Ringwood Lake, that one is trash.

i think youre mistaking mountain bikers for idiots. Mountain bikers are inherently nature lovers and being away from the city is the prime reason for biking

I am a mountain biker and love nature. I pick up rubbish on almost every ride I go on. Ps: mountain bikers usually carry reusable water containers. Thank you for your concern.

Most of the rubbish you might come across in the forest is dumped by bogan picnickers, half-wit 4WDers, or locals trying to dump their overfull domestic rubbish bin. ALL of them will have brought it there in motor cars, not on MTBs.

Mountain bikers are almost entirely nature enthusiasts, and would rarely own bring a single use plastic water bottle into the forest, let alone leave it there.

Hopefully the 4wd campers and hunters who leave them...

Donna Mcintosh hope you are all OK then with closing down all of the Warburton cafes, removing those annoying signed walking tracks, and pulling out all visitor facilities at Mount Donna Buang, Upper Yarra Dam, and other “abused” tourist sites. Yeah, can’t have useless visitors coming to spend money in your town, just gives the yobbo locals too much money to spend on their drug-habits.

Geez nice to know how you feel about the area & the locals.

5 months the vids been up and only 4.5k views. Sounds like it has massive interest.. 😂 wheres the 100k+

Donna Mcintosh this is the only place I have been where locals put sings like,”No more mountain bike trails”,our backyards are not mountain bike trails etc.Also sings on a trail we where damaged or completely missing.I don’t understand how can someone do that.But then I find you in the comments.

@@mehurtmyfinger I guess not everybody that rides bikes off road wants to watch a video from a council about an environmental assessment. Can't wait to see the project done and done right.

Hi Donald, Thanks for your comment! Planning for the trail has involved working with Yarra Valley Railway, including agreement regarding the sharing of facilities at the Yarra Glen Station and keeping the option open for a tourist railway between Yarra Glen and Lilydale in the future. The existing train tracks between Lilydale and Yarra Glen would not be able to support a train in their current state. Extensive bridge and rail construction works would also be required to accommodate any future rail provision along this corridor. I hope this helps! All the best, Jesse

Yarra Ranges Council You people don’t think enough. Would have been a lot better for your council, the state government, the community, local business, train buffs etc to reconstruct it to its original condition. I thought The Yarra Valley was a prime tourist area for people to get away from Melbourne. Wouldn’t it a positive initiative to bring more people to the area? How about a wine and dinner train through the wineries? Make it special for people to get out like the old days?. No? Ok..

It’s far too expensive and Yarra Valley Railway don’t even own this land. They were not going to extend anytime soon so this is a better use.

It's probably been like that since settlement.

Floods like that used to be a 50 year event... now we have them every year and the lake is no longer able to hold the growning amount of water from flooding the township. Things have dramitically changed out here.

Urban Fisho .. sorry mate, can't agree. I live there for 20 years, played in the creek when I was a kid. The water was never clear. It was always silty in normal times and very brown/red in flood time.

David Millsom Ok, just strange cos I DO recall it being very clear a few times when I was in Lilydale, back in my late teens before the lake was built. Not saying it WAS all the time, as I don't live in that area, but when I did see it, it was clean.

@@DavidMillsom what gives you the right to even comment you didn't even live in the area before the filthy lake was built the water used to be crystal clear you could see the bottom of the creek from hull road to the yarra river or ( Birmingham rd ) if you have lived in the area before the road names were changed it was amazing the amount of schools of fish that were in the creek most were Estuary Perch as there was hardly any carp back then even see eels they were a light color compared to the ones you see now any way my point is 27yrs in the area is nothing everyone i know has lived in the area for at least 35yrs or more a lot for 50+yrs

​@@ruffnut743 1. This is a public forum so I, like anyone else, have a right to comment. 2. I lived in Lilydale between 1950 and 1967. 3. I visited the creek very often as a kid. 4. I particularly remember the time when the local pool was filled from the creek every summer (that was before the new, chlorinated pool was built ) I particularly remember that because I got an ear infection from it. That's why the local doctors lobbied the council to rebuild the pool. I cannot comment in the quality of the water at Swansea road because I don't recall checking it out there.