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Victoria: 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....
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Melbourne, VIC: Taxi driver helps make the case for crossing removal
Victoria Labor Party leader Daniel Andrews was handed an example of why level crossing makes perfect sense while campaigning at a level crossing in Fairfield, an inner-suburb of Melbourne. A taxi...
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Wyndham, 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...
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Melbourne, 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...
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Melbourne, 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...
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Melbourne, VIC: Council pushes for crossing fix in Labor’s first term
Moonee Valley Council is mobilising to push the recently elected Labor administration to confirm that the Buckley Street level crossing in Essendon will be one of the 20 level crossings in the Greater...
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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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Melbourne, VIC: Contracts let for removing the first crossings of a targeted...
Contracts thane been let to remove the first four of an eventual 50-strong programme of grade separations across the Melbourne metropolitan area. This forms part of the Labor government’s deliver on...
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Melbourne, VIC: Demolition presages level crossing elimination
The start of the level crossing elimination programme promised by Labor in the run-up to last year’s state election has begun. This is manifest in the weekend closure of the railway through Gardiner,...
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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 trains linked to increased crossing closure times
New trains on Melbourne’s Frankston line are cited as the reason for an increase in the time between the initiation of the crossing closure sequence and the arrival of the train. The new Experian...
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Melbourne, VIC: Glen Huntly traders push for crossing removal
The latest push to change the make-up of the Victoria Government’s programme to remove fifty level crossings in the Melbourne region is from the Glen Huntly Traders Association. They are arguing that...
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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, ONT: Two killed in active open crossing collision
two women were killed when the car in which they were travelling was hit by a passenger train on an active open level crossing near Melbourne, Ontario. The collision occurred at about 10.30am on April...
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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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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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