Re: $4.5m for Parkes freight hub

["Steve" <pracys@eisa.com.au>]

Here here it will be swallowed up by the planning,impact studies and reports
by consultants that no nothing about the industry in general etc...
Tezza wrote in message
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>"David Bromage" <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
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>> The Federal Government has committed $4.5 million over the next three
>> years to develop a multimodal freight hub at Parkes. The first stage
>> focusses on a rail and road hub for the distribution of agricultural
>> products.
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>> http://www.abc.net.au/news/regionals/orange/monthly/regor-11sep2000-2.htm
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>This has been touted for years as part of the Melbourne - Darwin line.
$4.5M
>will be lucky to pay for the planning.
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