Due to some rather unpleasant family issues, I saw my mum off at the airport last night. But it wasn’t all bad news.

Now that stage 7 of Roe Highway is completed, there is a freeway running more or less straight from my house to Perth Airport. It’s a very nice drive, with only four traffic lights the whole way, and halves my travel time for that journey.

Despite this, I’m quite worried about the new road’s impact on the environment, particularly local wildlife. On the new stretch of road there’s these big electronic signs saying “Beware Kangaroo”.

So I’m left to wonder. If this is an area where lots of kangaroos are bounding around, why the hell did they go build a freeway through it?