Efforts to preserve the Frost Street underpass took a turn last week with Senator Bridget McKenzie grilling Inland Rail’s interim CEO Mike Zambelli over the process undertaken to reach the decision to close what is ostensibly a thoroughfare that the northwest of Euroa has long relied on.

The advocacy group Frost Street Petition-883 has now found direction that will possibly be the basket into which all their eggs might now need to go.

The group was established from much local passion and the case of these committed and robust lobbyists has been well-reported by this masthead.

Despite the process by which the decision to close the underpass came about – the most damning perhaps being lack of consultation – one would be hard pressed to find just one person in the shire who actually wants the underpass closed.

Frost Street Petition-883 can now embrace exactly how many eggs they have got.

There are no lobby groups, no letters to our Editor, and no one has fronted up to this group and demanded the thing be closed, which is arguably different from merely ‘moving on’ after council’s decision.

Therefore, the record-breaking petition (883 signatures) tabled to council by the group in June could well be a mere token of perhaps the entire community.

Frost Street Petition-883 has provided data that show only a handful of residents who are opposed to the underpass preservation, half of whom have since expressed a change of heart when enlightened on the closure’s consequences.

Therefore, the group has a lot of eggs to potentially get into that basket.

Some decisions cannot be reversed, to which end it would be prudent to quit flogging council, build instead an army, and target where a federal project is funded and held to account by a federal government, by marching on Canberra.

The Parliamentary Committee into Regional Affairs and Infrastructure is just that place, and in terms of eggs, McKenzie is a good'un.

Her targeted persistence with Mr Zambelli at 11pm on Wednesday night was yet another seam that this determined group has opened up at the coalface of democracy.

The senator may even have scratched open advocacy other than social inclusion: discrimination based on disability, age, and income.

Frost Street Petition-883 are well across this already and in terms of being told to 'move on', oh boy, have they.

McKenzie's representation last week is a new direction for the group and quite a coup.