Residents whose streets have been blocked by level crossing removal works in Melbourne’s east say they can’t get answers on how long the disruptions will last.

Major works are underway to merge the Surrey Hills and Mont Albert stations and remove two level crossings.

Susannah Oumann’s Mont Albert street was closed in April, and she was led to believe the closure would only last for a week or two.

“They are deliberately misleading in the way they explain it. So when they closed our street they implied it would only be for one or two weeks, but once those concrete barriers were in place in April they just left them there and refused to answer the question of when will we have access to our street,” she told Dee Dee.

“All of the streets have been turned into construction sites, and we have no access to our driveways, our garages, on street parking in front of our homes.”

Ms Oumann says the impact of noise and dust is “extreme” and she hasn’t been offered alternative accommodation for an extended period despite the disruptions.

She says the lack of communication by the state government has compounded the suffering of residents.

“It’s hard to believe that this can happen unless you are seeing it. For me it is about the refusal to share information, the secrecy that surrounds this project,” she said.

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