Draft Arden Structure Plan: RFI submission
RFI has made a submission to the Victorian Planning Authority on the draft new Arden Station Structure Plan. Read more……………
Category: Submissions
Victorian State Budget Submission: 2019-20
Including recommendations for urgent investigation and implementation of some smaller capital projects, a package of specific service frequency improvements for metro and regional trains and the tram network, urgent consideration of specific rolling stock projects and related issues, higher priority on some previously approved projects on which progress appears to be lagging, funding of intensive planning to finalise the scope, concept design and business cases for already announced specific large and smaller infrastructure projects, and more.
Victorian State Budget Submission: 2018-19
This submission has been prepared by Rail Futures Institute in the public interest. Rail Futures is an independent non-partisan group formed to advocate cost-effective rail and intermodal solutions for public transport and freight problems based on sound commercial, economic and social reasoning. Rail Futures members include very experienced rail professionals, urban planners, engineers and economists….
Inquiry into National Freight and Supply Chain Priorities
Efficient, low cost supply chains are critical to Australia’s export competitiveness and the nation’s growing freight task. The freight task increased 50% in the ten years to 2016 and is predicted to increase by a further 26% in the next 10 years1. Transporting this export and domestic freight task will require increased supply chain infrastructure…
Airport Rail and Associated Development Statement
Study outcomes and proposal for the development of Melbourne Airport railway, regional and future high speed links. Trouble viewing the proposal? Download the PDF.
Geelong Needs Faster Trains!
The Victorian and Commonwealth Government spent $4.2 billion building the Regional Rail Link so that trains from Geelong and other regional cities could run to Southern Cross without being delayed by suburban trains. No sooner was it finished than the RRL effectively became a suburban line itself, serving the mushrooming suburbs in Wyndham, with new…
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