Australia Plans Billions to Get Trucks Off Roads

Victorians will be promised a $3.3 billion federal government plan to expand road and rail networks across the state, including new freight projects that aim to take 5,500 trucks off the roads around Melbourne every day, The Age reported.

The federal government will back two new freight terminals as part of the Melbourne Intermodal plan to send more goods by rail, setting out a plan that could ease differences with the state government over the preferred location of a single freight hub.

Read the full report: The Age.

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Jim Pollard

Jim Pollard is an Australian journalist based in Thailand since 1999. He worked for News Ltd papers in Sydney, Perth, London and Melbourne before travelling through SE Asia in the late 90s. He was a senior editor at The Nation for 17+ years and has a family in Bangkok.