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| Type | Freeway (Proposed) |
| Length | 13.4 km (8.3 mi) |
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Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in Western Australia |
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 Original design: upgrade Stock Road, Leach Highway, High Street (source: ABC News) |
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May 2015: extend Roe Highway to Hamilton Hill, then tunnel north to High Street (source: Perth Now) |
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May 2016: tunnel from Stock Road/Winterfield Road intersection to High Street (source: WA Today) |
The Perth Freight Link is 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, but is proposed to be cancelled following a change of government at the March 2017 state election.
The proposal included multiple stages: a five-kilometre (3.1 mi) extension of Roe Highway to (Roe 8); a second stage linking Roe 8 to Stirling Highway, bypassing fourteen sets of traffic signals (Roe 9); 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. 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.
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. 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. On 24 August 2016 the Supreme Court dismissed Abraham's challenge. 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.
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