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PROGNOSIS * Australia - Trucking magnate tells 2020 summit suburbs don't need trucks
Consultants Port Jackson Partners estimate that road congestion will cost Melbourne about $8 billion a year by 2015, taking into account time wasted and petrol used in traffic
Melbourne,Australia -The Melbourne Herald Sun, by Mandi Zonneveldt -April 21, 2008: -- Trucking magnate Lindsay Fox has a bold vision for Melbourne in 2020 - he wants trucks taken out of the metropolitan area... A new rail network would be built to take cargo from Melbourne's ports to the centres, taking large trucks off clogged roads in Melbourne's metropolitan area... The proposal won wide support from a who's who of business leaders taking part in a discussion about infrastructure as part of the Future Directions for the Australian Economy stream at the summit... "You then bypass all of the freeways," he said of the satellite distribution plan... "(Trucks) don't come into the city at all."...
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