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$34m to upgrade Vic's treacherous rural roads
20 Aug 2004
The Victorian Government has allocated $34 million to upgrade 23 of the state's most hazardous sections of country roads. The funding will be used on measures to reduce the number of crashes in which vehicles run off roads, with tactile edging, road shoulder sealing and safety barriers to be installed.
The most expensive project is a $9.9 million plan to seal 41 kilometres of shoulder and install tactile edges on the Strzelecki Highway between Morwell and Leongatha. Roads in the Mitchell and Murrindindi shires will receive almost $9.5 million.
The funding is part of an attack on the high number of fatalities on Victoria's country roads. To date in 2004, 127 people have been killed on rural roads, compared with 79 in Melbourne. In the past five years 29 deaths and 479 injuries have been recorded on the 23 stretches of rural roads targeted in the new funding.
The Age, 20/8/04.
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