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Linking Victoria

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The Linking Victoria was a State Government program launched in 1999 to upgrade transport infrastructure in Victoria, Australia. If implemented, the estimate cost of the program would have been $3.5 billion, including improvements to road, rail and port networks.

Elements

Elements of the program included:

  • An airport rail link from Melbourne Airport into central Melbourne, since deferred
  • The Regional Fast Rail project upgrading passenger rail links in regional Victoria
  • reopening country railway lines, including those to Bairnsdale, Ararat and Mildura. The latter project has been deferred
  • The Geelong Freeway upgrade
  • standardisation of railway gauges (deferred, and partially restarted in 2008)
  • The Eastern Freeway extension to Ringwood
  • Duplication of the Calder Highway to Bendigo
  • Accident blackspot road safety program
  • Development of the Port of Melbourne, constructing the Dock Link Road, investigating reinstatement of the Webb Dock railway line
  • Joint private/public sector major redevelopment of Spencer Street Station

    • References

    Linking Victoria Wikipedia
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