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Perth Freight Link
Western Australia
General information
Type
Freeway (Proposed)
Length
13.4 km (8.3 mi)
Major junctions
Southeast end
Kwinana Freeway (State Route 2/National Route 1)
Roe Highway (State Route 3), Bibra Lake
Northwest end
Stirling Highway (State Route 5), Fremantle
Highway system
Highways in Australia
National Highway • Freeways in Australia
Highways in Western Australia
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The Perth Freight Link was a proposed $1.9 billion project in Perth, Western Australia to improve the road freight link between Kewdale and Fremantle Harbour. The project was announced by the state government in May 2014,[1] but was cancelled following a change of government at the March 2017 state election.[2][3]
The proposal included multiple stages: a five-kilometre (3.1 mi) extension of Roe Highway to Stock Road (Roe 8); a second stage linking Roe 8 to Stirling Highway, bypassing fourteen sets of traffic signals (Roe 9);[4] and a final stage connecting into the Port of Fremantle. The plan included mandatory GPS tracking of all vehicles over an undisclosed size or weight with a charge per kilometre being applied for vehicles travelling along the route between Muchea and North Fremantle.[5] The extension would have taken the highway from its current terminus at Kwinana Freeway approximately five kilometres (3.1 mi) further west through the Beeliar Wetlands to Stock Road, near Forrest Road in Coolbellup. The proposed route was along or within the vicinity of an existing road reserve in the Perth Metropolitan Region Scheme.[6]
The project's environmental assessment by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) along with the approval of the development by WA Government Minister Albert Jacob was ruled invalid by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on 16 December 2015.[7] On 30 March 2016 Greg McIntyre QC, acting for Corina Abraham, lodged writs in the Supreme Court of Western Australia, alleging that Minister of Aboriginal Affairs Peter Collier and the Department of Aboriginal Affairs cultural committee denied procedural fairness when it failed to consult her.[8][9] On 24 August 2016 the Supreme Court dismissed Abraham's challenge.[10] The Save Beeliar Wetlands group tried to challenge the highway in the High Court, but the court dismissed the challenge on 16 December 2016, saying there wasn't sufficient grounds for a challenge.[11]
Construction began in late 2016, following the signing of the contract to build Roe 8 by the Liberal state government. Opposition to the project continued, with protests and a second senate inquiry. The freight link was an election issue in the 2017 state election. The McGowan Government scrapped the entire project after winning office.[12][13]
^Cite error: The named reference media statement 19 May 2014 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Work starts now for WA's new McGowan govt". SBS News. Special Broadcasting Service. AAP. 12 March 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
^Sprague, Julie-anne; Ingram, Tess (12 March 2017). "WA election: Mark McGowan sets his agenda". AFR Weekend. Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on 12 March 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
^Main Roads Western Australia (5 January 2015). "Perth Freight Link". Government of Western Australia. Archived from the original on 31 March 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
^Parker, Gareth (17 December 2014). "Truck toll to pay for Roe Highway extension". The West Australian. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
^Main Roads Western Australia (17 December 2014). "Roe Highway Extension – Kwinana Freeway to Stock Road". Government of Western Australia. Archived from the original on 26 April 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
^Cite error: The named reference epa invalid was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Grant, Steve (1 April 2016). "ROE 8 The fight of my life". Fremantle Herald. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
^"Traditional owners continue to challenge the Aboriginal heritage approval for a major highway extension in WA". CAAMA. Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
^Irena Ceranic (24 August 2016). "Perth Freight Link: Roe 8 Aboriginal heritage appeal thrown out". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
^"Roe 8: Save Beeliar Wetlands group lose fresh legal challenge against highway extension". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 16 December 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
^Labor vows to scrap Perth Freight-Link if it wins election The Guardian 4 January 2017
^WA Labor vows to axe Perth Freight Link The West Australian 4 January 2017
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