A proposal to build a temporary tunnel under the Murray Street Mall has been put forward to allow trucks to access the Carillon City construction site.

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Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University, explained to Perth Today host Simon Beaumont that he thinks it is a clever plan, but it doesn’t solve the disruption to pedestrians.

“My problem is that they’ll have to have a pedestrian strategy to get around it because that is going to go through two of the most frequently used areas, the Forrest Place and Murray Street Mall,” he said.

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