Vic: Delays, disruption expected under transport plan

AAP General News (Australia)
12-09-2008
Vic: Delays, disruption expected under transport plan

Long suffering commuters can expect years of disruptions on Melbourne roads and rail
services .. with some big ticket transport projects more than a decade away from completion.

A day after the fanfare unveiling of the Victorian government's 38 billion dollar transport
blueprint .. Premier JOHN BRUMBY is urging public transport users and motorists to be
patient.

The message came as the government revealed it would spend about two million dollars
on a transport advertising blitz .. and as community opposition to a new road tunnel mobilised
in the western suburbs.

The centrepiece of the transport plan is a two-and-a-half billion dollar road tunnel
under the Maribrynong River in Melbourne's west .. a four-and-a-half billion dollar cross
city rail tunnel and a North-East Link road.

Work on the latter is not expected to start until 2017 and will not be complete until
some time beyond 2020.

AAP RTV cmb/pmu/wz

KEYWORD: TRANSPORT VIC (MELBOURNE)

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