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Transport Minister Dean Nalder said a tunnel across the Swan River was scrapped when it was realised this would mean digging up to 26m underground, making it too difficult for trucks stacked with heavy containers to make the journey back to the surface.
“There’s a certain gradient you need to comply with to get the vehicles up and that meant we’d be swinging a tunnel up and around Leighton Beach / Port Beach to come back in,” he said.
“The cost of that has removed that from our consideration.”Officials seek Federal funds
FREMANTLE WA officials are in Canberra working with the Federal Government about funding for the last piece of the Perth Freight Link.Transport Minister Dean Nalder said a tunnel across the Swan River was scrapped when it was realised this would mean digging up to 26m underground, making it too difficult for trucks stacked with heavy containers to make the journey back to the surface.
“There’s a certain gradient you need to comply with to get the vehicles up and that meant we’d be swinging a tunnel up and around Leighton Beach / Port Beach to come back in,” he said.
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