A flick through Infrastructure Victoria's 30-year strategy

The cover of IV's strategy document

Infrastructure Victoria recently came out with their 30-year strategy. There are some recommendations that I want to do full posts on, but a lot of stuff that just needs a couple of lines - so I thought I'd do something like Gareth Dennis has done with various policy documents, and just flick through it and give some brief commentary. 

Level crossing-free lines

Union Rd, Surrey Hills (via Philip Mallis)

The government recently announced they'd be grade separating ten more level crossings, bringing it to a total of 85 pledged and/or delivered under the Andrews government. They also announced they'd be closing four crossings, so it's sort of 89, but their messaging consistently says 85 so let's stick with that. As Daniel Bowen pointed out on his blog, this means about half the level crossings in suburban Melbourne on the 2008 ALCAM list will have been eliminated - very impressive.