Local Roads to Market projects across the state’s south-west are upgrading intersections, strengthening pavements and widening and re-aligning the roads our dairy industry relies on. (more…)
Tag: transport
New local roads funding boosts Grampians’ agribusiness
The Victorian Government is helping growers in Horsham Shire Council’s agriculture sector get goods to market more quickly through its Local Roads to Market program. (more…)
Local roads spending a win for farmers
Farmers in South Gippsland will receive nearly $800,000 in funding to improve local agricultural roads under a Victorian Government scheme. (more…)
New North East Truck Curfew
The Victorian Farmers Federation has scored a major win after lobbying successfully for the weight restriction stopping large trucks from travelling along key roads in Melbourne’s north east at night be raised to accommodate farmers taking their produce to early morning markets. (more…)
Infrastructure key to profitability in beef
A report from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) has identified transport infrastructure, particularly roads, as a limiting factor in the capacity of Australia’s beef supply chain to respond effectively to increasing global demand. (more…)
Floods turn cars into death traps
Engineers at the University of New South Wales have discovered just how easily cars can be washed away by even the smallest currents – making the crossing of floodwaters a dangerous and potentially life-threatening decision. (more…)