Laverton, Victoria: Opposition leader pledges another grade-separation
Daniel Andrews, leader of the labor Party in Victoria has pledged that if Labor wings power in November’s state elections they will grade-separate the level crossing on Aviation Road in Laverton,...
View ArticleVictoria: Only Labor can eliminate level crossings fast enough
Level crossings are certainly a central policy issue for Labor ahead of November’s state elections. Almost daily thee are news stories that Labor will target that crossing, and that one and that one....
View ArticleLake Charm, VIC: ATSB report finds that road traffic changes hadn’t led to...
The Australian Transportation Safety Board (ATSB) has reported on the Collision between a train and a truck on a level crossing near Lake Charm. The accident occurred on the McCann Road level crossing...
View ArticleWyndham, VIC: Council calls for level crossing elimination
Wyndham Council has released a report stating that level crossings in the municipality are safety risks and add to traffic congestion on the city’s roads, with crossing barriers down for up to 35...
View ArticleVictoria: TrackSAFE welcomes push for level crossing safety
As Victoria moves to elect a new state government, The TrackSAFE Foundation has welcomed the importance placed on level crossing safety by both the Victorian Coalition and Labor political parties in...
View ArticleMelbourne, Victoria: Labor Government’s reputation will be on the line at...
With both the Labor opposition and the ruling coalition upping the stakes on the number of level crossings to be eliminated in Greater Melbourne as the state election campaign progressed. Labor took...
View ArticleMelbourne, VIC: Politicians doing what they do best?
With the November 2014 state elections having generated claim and counter claim it is unsurprising that the same prevails post-election. In the case of the Bentleigh crossing elimination, the current...
View ArticleMelbourne, 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...
View ArticleMelbourne, 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...
View ArticleMelbourne, 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...
View ArticleVictoria: 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...
View ArticleMelbourne, 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...
View ArticleMelbourne, 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...
View ArticleMelbourne: 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...
View ArticlePirron 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...
View ArticleVictoria: 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...
View ArticleMelbourne, 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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