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$1.8 billion boost for local government T
he Federal Government will deliver a $1.8 billion boost for road and community projects through local governments across Australia. The package of support will help local councils support jobs and businesses by delivering priority projects focused on infrastructure upgrades and maintenance. The new $500 million Local Road and
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Community Infrastructure Program and the bringing forward of $1.3 billion of the 202021 Financial Assistance Grant payment will also help communities battling the effects of COVID-19. Projects could include constructing or improving bridges and tunnels, street lighting, and heavy vehicle facilities such as rest areas. The package takes Commonwealth investment in local governments through the Financial Assistance Grant program to $2.5 billion this financial year, with a further $1.2 billion being distributed through other programs to deliver infrastructure, and provide relief from drought and bushfires.”
Encourage your council to invest in rest
You can view the amount that has been allocated to WA local councils at https:// investment.infrastructure.gov.au/files/localroads-community-infrastructure-program/ lrci-funding-allocations.pdf Councils will be able to select the projects to be funded in their community
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he Australian Logistics Council actively engages with Ministers and departmental officials at all levels of government and is keen to ensure that policy solutions to transition out of COVID-19 consider your suggestions. If you have a suggestion for what needs to change to make the broad Australian logistics and supply chain stronger, they're asking you to email admin@ austlogistics.com.au "It may be an idea for an infrastructure project, a rule or a regulation that needs to change, suggestions for what additional skills or training support the industry needs or an idea about how we can better support our workforce in the challenges they face. No idea is too big or small and every suggestion can make some contribution to ensuring our industry and our supply chains emerge from COVID-19 more resilient."
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This is an opportunity for the road transport industry to influence where heavy vehicle rest facilities could be added or improved on regional roads according to priorities at the local level, and they need to be projects that are additional to pre-COVID-19 works programs for 202021. Funding is available from 1 July 2020 and councils need to complete all project works by 30 June 2021. This is an opportunity for the road transport industry to influence where heavy vehicle rest facilities could be added or improved on regional roads. If you have ideas, you can send an email to the Livestock and Rural Transport Association of WA admin@lrtawa.org.au who already have significant intelligence into priority rest stop areas for WA.
Upgrade for Leach Highway and Welshpool Road intersection
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roposals for the design and construction of the $93 million Leach Highway and Welshpool Road Interchange project have opened for submission. Federal Minister for Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructure Alan Tudge said, "We are investing in critical infrastructure in WA to lay the foundations for economic recovery on the other side of COVID-19 and this project is part of that." “Safety is a huge factor in this area, in just five years from 2014, 224 crashes have been reported and we need to bring these numbers down. The Leach Highway/Welshpool Road intersection is currently ranked as the second-worst intersection across WA for crash frequency and cost. Up to 50,000 vehicles travel through this intersection daily. A new road bridge will carry Leach
Highway over Welshpool Road and an additional road bridge on Leach Highway over the Armadale railway line, Railway Parade, and Sevenoaks Street. The project is jointly funded with the Australian and Western Australian governments each committing $46.5 million and is scheduled to commence construction in late 2020.
Safety is a huge factor in this area, in just five years from 2014, 224 crashes have been reported and we need to bring these numbers down
