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Fraught Freight * Australia
* Victory - Trucks could stifle port of Melbourne
(Picture by Scott McNaughton - Crowded route: Trucks queuing on Footscray's Whitehall Street en route to the port)
Melbourne,VIC,Australia -Maribyrnong Weekly, by Grant Reynolds -15 Feb, 2012: -- Failing to build a dedicated truck route in the inner west could stifle growth of the Port of Melbourne and increase travel time and costs for transport operators, according to state government documents... Documents obtained by Williamstown MP, Wade Noonan, under freedom of information laws show a $450million project to take trucks off residential streets was at the "ready to proceed" stage... The document is not dated, but other details indicate it was likely to have been prepared by VicRoads and the Department of Transport late last year as the state government was putting together its bid for funding from Infrastructure Australia... It concluded: "To do nothing will mean significant travel times increase between key shipping facilities in the west and the port precinct, stifling growth of the Port of Melbourne" ... A proposal for a dedicated truck route, known as the Truck Action Plan, was put on the backburner by the state government but was to aid "the sustainable growth of the Port of Melbourne by providing a 24-hour curfew-free truck access from the west"...Labels: truckers complaints
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