Perth Freight Link: Infrastructure Australia casts doubt on WA State Government’s decision

source: perth now

Perth Freight Link: Infrastructure Australia casts doubt on WA State Government’s decision

Perth Freight Link map showing route options.

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INFRASTRUCTURE Australia has cast doubt over the State Government’s decision to go ahead with the Perth Freight Link project, revealing that 11 other options to address freight movement problems to Fremantle Port were not subjected to a benefit-cost ratio assessment (BCR). 

In its assessment of the project, Infrastructure Australia said that although it had a “high level of confidence that the proposed solution would deliver net economic benefits” a BCR was completed for only the current option which will see a 5.2km extension of the Roe Highway to Stock Road and a yet-to-be-determined new route from Stock Road to the Fremantle Port.

None of the 12 options included consideration of a new harbour at Kwinana.

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