Millions of dollars will be spent upgrading a vital east-west rail link as part of a $1 billion investment in the national rail network .Work on the line is expected to begin during the 2024-25 financial year and will take several years to complete.
The flooding also impacted WA's main road link with the east, the Eyre Highway, which had a flow-on effect on WA supermarket shelves.Wayne Johnson, managing director of the Adelaide-based, federal-government-owned Australian Rail Track Corporation, described the funding as a "shot in the arm" for the rail industry.
"You've got to bear in mind that a lot of goods run east-west routinely, so we've got to mix that work in among those operations," Mr Johnson said.Huge cost to economy "Repeated severe weather events, particularly flooding, have had a major impact on rail freight and passenger services and resulted in significant disruptions to our national supply chain," she said.Call for better planning
"There doesn't seem to be any will nationally to deal with interstate freight disruptions that are impacting WA, the NT ... it's an ongoing problem and these weather events are becoming more common."
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