❓ Question regarding the completion of the Narrogin-Wagin link road to alleviate road train traffic through Narrogin townsite due to safety and infrastructure concerns. The government states pre-construction work is advanced, and funding will be considered in future budgets.
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The Narrogin Town Council has recently lifted its ban on road train traffic through the town site as the ban was hurting the local economy. Restricted permits are now being issued, despite the fact that the road trains pose a safety threat and cause damage to the town’s infrastructure. When will the Government complete the Narrogin-Wagin section of the link road so that the Narrogin town site can be free of road train traffic? Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD
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I thank the member for some notice of this question. There has been no change to the non-issue of road train permits for the Narrogin town site because the matter has not yet been comprehensively reviewed by Main Roads. However, Main Roads received advice on 13 March 2003 from the Narrogin Town Council that it wishes to review road train routes through the Narrogin town site. The member will appreciate that while 27.5 metre vehicles can currently access these routes, safety issues are associated with 36.5 metre vehicles that can be addressed only by a joint review by the council, Main Roads and industry representatives. Pre-construction work on stage 2 of the Narrogin-Wagin section of the link road is well advanced; that is, with road design, land acquisition, creek realignment, service relocation and material sourcing. This will enable the Government to consider the funding for the project as part of future budget deliberations.
Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. There has been no change to the non-issue of road train permits for the Narrogin town site because the matter has not yet been comprehensively reviewed by Main Roads. However, Main Roads received advice on 13 March 2003 from the Narrogin Town Council that it wishes to review road train routes through the Narrogin town site. The member will appreciate that while 27.5 metre vehicles can currently access these routes, safety issues are associated with 36.5 metre vehicles that can be addressed only by a joint review by the council, Main Roads and industry representatives. Pre-construction work on stage 2 of the Narrogin-Wagin section of the link road is well advanced; that is, with road design, land acquisition, creek realignment, service relocation and material sourcing. This will enable the Government to consider the funding for the project as part of future budget deliberations.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. There has been no change to the non-issue of road train permits for the Narrogin town site because the matter has not yet been comprehensively reviewed by Main Roads. However, Main Roads received advice on 13 March 2003 from the Narrogin Town Council that it wishes to review road train routes through the Narrogin town site. The member will appreciate that while 27.5 metre vehicles can currently access these routes, safety issues are associated with 36.5 metre vehicles that can be addressed only by a joint review by the council, Main Roads and industry representatives. Pre-construction work on stage 2 of the Narrogin-Wagin section of the link road is well advanced; that is, with road design, land acquisition, creek realignment, service relocation and material sourcing. This will enable the Government to consider the funding for the project as part of future budget deliberations.
There has been no change to the non-issue of road train permits for the Narrogin town site because the matter has not yet been comprehensively reviewed by Main Roads. However, Main Roads received advice on 13 March 2003 from the Narrogin Town Council that it wishes to review road train routes through the Narrogin town site. The member will appreciate that while 27.5 metre vehicles can currently access these routes, safety issues are associated with 36.5 metre vehicles that can be addressed only by a joint review by the council, Main Roads and industry representatives. Pre-construction work on stage 2 of the Narrogin-Wagin section of the link road is well advanced; that is, with road design, land acquisition, creek realignment, service relocation and material sourcing. This will enable the Government to consider the funding for the project as part of future budget deliberations.
Pre-construction work on stage 2 of the Narrogin-Wagin section of the link road is well advanced; that is, with road design, land acquisition, creek realignment, service relocation and material sourcing. This will enable the Government to consider the funding for the project as part of future budget deliberations.
Hon GRAHAM GIFFARD replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. There has been no change to the non-issue of road train permits for the Narrogin town site because the matter has not yet been comprehensively reviewed by Main Roads. However, Main Roads received advice on 13 March 2003 from the Narrogin Town Council that it wishes to review road train routes through the Narrogin town site. The member will appreciate that while 27.5 metre vehicles can currently access these routes, safety issues are associated with 36.5 metre vehicles that can be addressed only by a joint review by the council, Main Roads and industry representatives. Pre-construction work on stage 2 of the Narrogin-Wagin section of the link road is well advanced; that is, with road design, land acquisition, creek realignment, service relocation and material sourcing. This will enable the Government to consider the funding for the project as part of future budget deliberations.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. There has been no change to the non-issue of road train permits for the Narrogin town site because the matter has not yet been comprehensively reviewed by Main Roads. However, Main Roads received advice on 13 March 2003 from the Narrogin Town Council that it wishes to review road train routes through the Narrogin town site. The member will appreciate that while 27.5 metre vehicles can currently access these routes, safety issues are associated with 36.5 metre vehicles that can be addressed only by a joint review by the council, Main Roads and industry representatives. Pre-construction work on stage 2 of the Narrogin-Wagin section of the link road is well advanced; that is, with road design, land acquisition, creek realignment, service relocation and material sourcing. This will enable the Government to consider the funding for the project as part of future budget deliberations.
There has been no change to the non-issue of road train permits for the Narrogin town site because the matter has not yet been comprehensively reviewed by Main Roads. However, Main Roads received advice on 13 March 2003 from the Narrogin Town Council that it wishes to review road train routes through the Narrogin town site. The member will appreciate that while 27.5 metre vehicles can currently access these routes, safety issues are associated with 36.5 metre vehicles that can be addressed only by a joint review by the council, Main Roads and industry representatives. Pre-construction work on stage 2 of the Narrogin-Wagin section of the link road is well advanced; that is, with road design, land acquisition, creek realignment, service relocation and material sourcing. This will enable the Government to consider the funding for the project as part of future budget deliberations.
Pre-construction work on stage 2 of the Narrogin-Wagin section of the link road is well advanced; that is, with road design, land acquisition, creek realignment, service relocation and material sourcing. This will enable the Government to consider the funding for the project as part of future budget deliberations.
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