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Mayor welcomes inquiry into road decision
Fremantle MLA Simone McGurk (centre) with Rethink Perth Freight Link
protestors outside the Melville Cockburn Chamber of Commerce breakfast,
where Mr Nalder was speaking last Wednesday.
COCKBURN Mayor Logan Howlett has welcomed news the Senate will
investigate the financing and |decision-making behind the controversial
Perth Freight Link (PFL) in September or October.
Mr Howlett was hopeful information that group opposed to the $1.6
billion project have been looking to scrutinise for months would be made
public.
“Transparency is of the highest priority, particularly when you’re
spending billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money on a project which the
community are generally saying they don’t want and there’s better
options available,” he said.
Meanwhile, a tunnel from Hamilton Hill through to Fremantle as part
of the Roe 9 stage of the Perth Freight Link is looking increasingly
likely, though it could be delayed after Transport Minister Dean Nalder
said exact timing for the build was not locked in.
Mr Nalder told a business breakfast last week that being able to
deliver a twin-bored tunnel railway line out to Forrestfield as part of
the $2 billion airport link at a price in line with doing it above
ground meant he “felt a lot more comfortable to explore this as a
potential solution for getting us to the port”.
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