Re: [V>IC]Geelong Port SG line to start

["Adam Dunning" <adamdunning@start.com.au>]

"Yuri J Sos" <steam4me@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:51:10 +1100, "James C."
> <james_ccj@optusnetdotcomdotau> wrote:
>
>
>http://www.dpc.vic.gov.au/domino/web_notes/newmedia.nsf/ebfd7a9e83f839b34a2
568110023b2e3/2a757bf1ba285d224a2569ff000754f7?OpenDocument
> >
> >The long awaiting SG access to Geelong Port will be start soon and should
be
> >complete in 12 months.
>
> Also this quote.....
>
> >"The development of intermodal terminals at West Wodonga and Morwell,
> > the extension of on-dock rail to West Swanson and Webb Docks and the
> >establishment of an integrated Victorian Freight and Logistics Strategy
> >will also be priorities in 2001."

Well Morwell is already an intermodal terminal.  Perhaps they mean to expand
it further.

>
> The line to West Swanson Dock was torn up several years ago.
> Connection to East Swanson Dock was also removed.  The bridge over the
> Yarra to Webb Dock has been converted into a pedestrian walkway.  All
> this in the name of long-range planning.

Last time I looked at the Webb Dock bridge, it was only connected to land at
one end.  The other end has been removed by the people building the new
tower on the corner of Salmon Street & Charles Grimes Bridge for the future
development of (at least) three more towers there.  FA would have to look at
an alternative rout through there to get to Webb Dock.

Adam

>
> Now the re-instatement of these lines is to be a "priority".
>
> Sigh, the more things change............
>
> Yuri.