sentences:  Opposition Leader Barry MacKinnon called on the state government to put plans to construct a new northern suburbs highway on hold, and redirect funds to upgrading and extending the Mitchell Freeway instead.He also commented that northern suburbs residents faced road journeys of up to an hour to reach the Perth CBD.This was a view also supported by the then president of the Greenwood, Kingsley, Warwick, and Woodvale Citizens' Association, Cheryl Edwardes (later the Liberal Member for Kingsley and Environment Minister during the Court Government).