Blink and you'll miss it

After months of waiting for something - anything - from the State Government to answer our list of questions on the Regional Rail Link, we thought for a moment there might be some movement.

On the same day that Channels 10, 9 and 7, ABC's Jon Faine, The Age and our three highly valued local papers interviewed Railway Place residents about their plight, the Department of Transport called one of our residents.

On offer was a meeting with an engineer. The catch: the meeting had to be the very next day, at 4.30 on a Friday afternoon just before a long weekend.

To do this meeting justice, we believed our technical expert as well as two residents representative of the community should attend. Unsurprisingly, we family and community focussed people at Railway Place were not able to reorganise our lives for this at such short notice just before the long weekend.

But surely, after waiting 58 days for such a meeting, the Department of Transport could give us more reasonable notice and reschedule for this week?

No such cooperation. The offer appears to have been withdrawn and no meeting is currently on offer.

So our clock continues to tick.

67 days and counting ...