AROUND half-a-dozen Palmyra residents will meet with WA transport minister Dean Nalder Tuesday to discuss controversial plans that could see their houses and 71 others sacrificed for the $1.6 billion Perth freight link.

Mr Nalder is mulling over two options to link Fremantle port with the Roe Highway: widening Leach Hwy and bulldozing anything in the way, or tunnelling.

He will fly to Sydney this weekend to discuss his plans with assistant infrastructure and regional development minister Jamie Briggs.

On Wednesday Mr Nalder apologised in parliament to Palmyra residents for the uncertainty.

Mr Shannon Morris, who lives in Moody Glen, one of the affected streets, will be at Tuesday’s meeting.

• The Morris family home is in the path of the Perth freight link. They’re pictured with Fremantle Labor MP Simone McGurk and Labor leader Mark McGowan, who say the link should be ditched and the money spent on a new Kwinana port. Photo supplied

“Like in any aspect of life, the thing that causes the most fear is uncertainty,” he says.

“We wont know what’s happening until the minister decides what route he wants to go down.”

Main Roads is expected to take at least two months to make a recommendation.

Fremantle state Labor MP Simone McGurk says the Perth freight link is a dud and should be scrapped, with the funds reallocated to developing a second port at Kwinana, “where there is good provision for road and rail without wrecking communities”.

Mr Nalder revealed this week he was also looking at widening Stirling traffic bridge to address concerns about bottlenecks of commuters and trucks.

by STEPHEN POLLOCK