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Melbourne, VIC: Truck driver jailed for five years following fatal crossing...
An elderly truck driver was, in December 2014, jailed for five years following guilty pleas to offences arising from a collision on November 3rd, 2012 that killed a passenger and injured others...
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Melbourne, VIC: Divert federal funds to level crossing removal
Federal funds would, if the Victoria state administration has its way will be diverted to level crossing removal rather than the East-West Link project. However, the federal position remains that it...
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Melbourne, VIC: Labor’s budget allocates AUD 2.6 billion to grade-separation
The Victoria Labor Government’s first budget has at its heart the tackling of road congestion and elimination of level crossings. The Labor budget includes AUD 2.6 billion to be spent on...
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Victoria: State parliament holds-up lease of port to pay for crossing...
Last year, the incoming Labor administration took control of the State Parliament with the promise of eliminating 50 level crossings in the Greater Melbourne region within two four-year parliamentary...
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Melbourne, VIC: Level crossings already a 2018 election issue
Victoria’s Labor administration is committed to eliminating 50 congestion prone and higher risk level crossings in the Greater Melbourne area predicated on them securing a second consecutive term in...
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Melbourne, VIC: New Gardiner grade-separation open for business
Elimination of the Burke Road level crossing in Gardiner by way of a grade separation has been completed as a component of the State Government programme to eliminate 50 level crossings in Greater...
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Melbourne: Next grade-separation visibly moving ahead
Evidence that the project to eliminate the Blackburn Road level crossing in Blackburn, near Melbourne is moving ahead is now very much in evidence. While the excavation of the nine-metre deep cutting...
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Pirron Yallock: Truck – train collision, crossing upgrade by end of year
A passenger train derailed with injuries to 19 as a result of a collision with a truck on a the Phalps Road level crossing in Pirron Yallock, near Colac, Victoria. The accident on July 13th, 2016 was...
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Victoria: Crossing closure extra costs could be AUD 1.0 billion
Having successfully leased the Port of Melbourne to the private sector for AUD 9.7 billion, the State of Victoria has now put a further eleven Melbourne conurbation level crossing closure projects out...
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Melbourne, Victoria: Another sep forward with AUD 395 million project
The design for a rail-over-road bridge within the AUD 395 million project which will also deliver doubling of the railway along the Hurstbridge Line corridor and reconstruction of the Rosanna station...
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