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INFRASTRUCTURES * Australia - 40,000 new truck trips on fatal route
Sydney,NWS,Australia -The Sydney Morning Herald, by HEATH GILMORE -January 10, 2010: -- Up to 40,000 extra truck journeys a year now clog one of the deadliest stretches of road leading into Sydney, new figures reveal... The huge increase in truck movements came after the State Government's $170 million decision to transfer car import receiving docks from White Bay in Sydney Harbour to Port Kembla, south of Wollongong... The majority of 42,000 trucks transporting new cars back to Sydney use the Picton-Mount Keira road, which links the Princes Highway with the Hume Highway, the Port Kembla Port Corporation said... Up to 20 people have died on Picton Road, largely a two-lane single carriageway, in the past 10 years... (Photo from abc.net.au)
* Trucks speeding on death highway
Sydney NSW ,Australia -The Daily Telegraph, by Rosie Squires -January 10, 2010: -- One in two truck drivers is speeding at night on our State's busiest and most dangerous highway... An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph found that in two and a half hours, 583 truck and car drivers broke the speed limit on the F3 freeway, putting themselves and others at risk... One in four cars was speeding, some of them travelling at more than 20km/h above the legal limit... During the day, one in three trucks was over the speed limit, while at night, half the truck drivers broke the law.Assistant Commissioner John Hartley, who is pushing the government to introduce mobile speed cameras to help reduce the road toll, said The Sunday Telegraph's findings were indicative of the problems faced on NSW roads, where speeding is rife... Telegraph reveal that last year, there were 60 fatal truck accidents in which 76 people died. Nine truck drivers and one truck passenger were among those who were killed... More than 30 other motorists and 17 pedestrians were killed in accidents involving trucks... (Photo smh.com.au: freeway)
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