It is totally unreasonable that communities along the Bendigo Echuca line have to endure a second rate rail system
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This petition calls on the Andrews Labor Government to immediately upgrade the Echuca to Bendigo train line to increase the track speed. The Bendigo Echuca line is a Class 4 line and this petition calls for the line to be upgraded to Class 2 to improve the train’s performance and equate it to other V/Line services across the State.
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Mr Walsh (Murray Plains) (11:22:01): Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) president David Jochinke has said of the Murray Basin rail project: We do expect them to deliver on the project, as promised. There has been an infrastructure spend in the city of far more significant value, and we want ours done, as well. When will the…
Member for Murray Plains Peter Walsh has pressured the Andrews Labor Government to come up with a timeline for a review of bus stops and routes in Echuca after a more than 12 month delay. Speaking in Parliament, Mr Walsh asked Public Transport Minister Melissa Horne to advise when the review would be done, after…
Mr WALSH (Murray Plains) (11:49:04): (1064) My constituency question is to the Minister for Public Transport, and it is on behalf of the residents of Echuca. Twelve months ago Transport for Victoria visited the Campaspe Shire Council and advised they did not have a time line for a review of bus routes and bus stops…
18 June 2019 : Mr Walsh The minister blamed inadequacies in the business case-a business case that she signed off on and actually boasted about-as the cause for this project not proceeding as announced. Why won’t the minister take personal responsibility for botching every single stage of this project?
18 June 2019 : Mr Walsh My question is to the Minister for Transport Infrastructure. Minister Pulford told the Parliament in February 2016: On Murray Basin rail unlike the former government we have finished the business case. We have provided the business case to the commonwealth government. … That is part of Labor’s legacy ……
18 June 2019 The Rail Freight Alliance describes the current state of the Murray Basin rail project as ‘A half done project leaving freight paths compromised and the work that has been done to date has left the track in a worse state than before’. How can the minister in any conscience leave this project…
