Roads to remember

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Roads to remember

Meeting of minds: VicRoads regional director for eastern Victoria Sebastian Motta chats with South Gippsland Shire Council CEO Tim Tamlin about the exhibition.LEONGATHA had a blast from the past after VicRoads opened their exhibition of road related pictures from the past 100 years on Thursday night.

The VicRoads – Connecting Victorians for 100 years exhibition at the Leongatha Historical Society’s Mechanics’ Institute was packed out.

The never before seen images and documents feature Leongatha and the surrounding road networks that have served the area for the past century.

The Leongatha Historical Society’s Lyn Skillern was happy to have the exhibition on display.

“It’s great to have this exhibition here and we loved working with VicRoads to get it all together,” she said.

Photos in the exhibition feature road construction and improvements. VicRoads top brass was overheard commenting how road safety and methods of construction had changed.

The exhibition is running through to July 27.

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