In 2009, Vic Roads announced its revised outer metropolitan ring plan due to lobbying by property developers, including a company half-owned by Ron Walker. The plans shifted the road two kilometres west from the original concept.
Farmers and residents of Bulla and Diggers Rest were alarmed that their homes and livelihoods were going to disappear over night (or so it seemed). According to the Vic Roads Outer Metropolitan Ring / E6 transport corridor planning study, the project would being post 2020 and land will be compulsory acquired from the current owners prior to the project commencing.
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