Linking Victoria

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.^[1]

Elements

Elements of the program included:^[2]

• 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

1. "DOI - Linking Victoria". www.dpi.vic.gov.au. Archived from the original on 19 August 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-05.
2. "PREMIER UNVEILS LINKING VICTORIA PLAN TO BOOST JOBS AND INVESTMENT". Mirrored at www.railpage.org.au. 2000-02-28. Retrieved 2008-09-05.

External links

• www.linkingvictoria.vic.gov.au - official site