EVENT DETAILS

Peter Batchelor Lunch 2004

The Hon Peter Batchelor, Minister for Transport addresses the luncheon

100 people attended the luncheon held at the Melbourne Town Hall on Thursday 10^th June to hear the Minister speak on current road issues and challenges ahead for the Victorian road infrastructure.

An Extract of the Ministers' Speech

 “Thank you for inviting me to join you at lunch today.  It’s fantastic to have the opportunity to get together with members of the Australian Road Federation.

 

The Bracks Government is committed to strengthening Victoria’s transport, ports and major projects infrastructure.  And we are committed to providing road and rail networks that are integrated and sustainable, and to providing transport infrastructure that operates efficiently and effectively.

 

In many ways, you share these goals with us.

 

And I thank you for your contribution to the progress we have made so far in delivering a safe transport network that best supports the economic, social and environmental needs of Victorians.

But don’t for a moment think that this is an easy task.

 

Right now in Victoria, we face some critical challenges in our road and freight systems.  Challenges that have the potential to seriously impact on Victoria’s solid economic growth.

 

In particular I’m talking about the problem of congestion on our urban road networks - and a bottleneck in Melbourne’s port - that together could easily slow our economic growth.

 

Today I want to briefly outline the nature and extent of these problems and the solutions we have developed to combat them.”

A full transcript of the Ministers’ speech is available on the ARF members site.

 

 

An Opportunity to Network

Attendees were able catch up with industry colleagues and customers and be introduced to new ones.

Various road related industries were represented:

 

AAPA

 

Abigroup Contractors

 

Alex Fraser Asphalt

 

Alex Fraser Asphalt

 

ARRB Transport Research Ltd

 

Boral ACM

 

Boral Asphalt

 

Boral Concrete

 

Boral Country

 

Boral Quarries

 

CityLink

 

CityWide Service Solutions

 

Civil Contractors Federation

 

Coates Hire

 

CSIRO

 

Dynapac

 

DIIRD

 

Emoleum

 

FRH - Astec

 

FRH Group

 

FRH Projects

 

Intelematics

 

ITS Australia

 

John Holland

 

Linfox

 

Maunsell Australia

 

Mobil Oil Australia

 

National ICT Australia

 

Parkinson Asphalting

 

Pavement Salvage

 

Pioneer Road Services

 

Readymix

 

Sinclair Knight Merz

 

Southern Asphalters

 

Spider Junction Pty Ltd

 

Thiess

 

Transfield Services

 

Transfield Services

 

Transurban

 

Vic Partnership for Advanced Computing

 

VicRoads

 

Victorian State Government

 

Victorian Transport Association

 

William Adams

 

 

 

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