Pacific National proposes to build a 395-hectare freight rail terminal and warehousing hub on green wedge land next door to the small township of Little River.
Australia’s largest private rail freight company plans to build a huge rail freight terminal and warehousing hub on green wedge land west of Werribee, promising to create 3600 new jobs and remove thousands of trucks a year from the roads.
The inner-city rail network is also incapable of supporting 1800-metre-long trains carrying double-stacked shipping containers, which will run on the federal government’s 1700-kilometre Inland Rail freight route between Melbourne and Brisbane. “The result is less traffic congestion, reduced truck emissions, fewer road accidents and fatalities, and less wear and tear on local and state roads,” he said.If the terminal is not built, the company claims an extra 250,000 truck trips a year will happen on Melbourne’s roads by 2031, and that an additional 400,000 tonnes of CO2 will be emitted by 2051 due to those extra truck trips.
“It would just destroy the township, a freight terminal there,” said Brian Jobling, a long-time Little River resident. “It’s always the case that it is public land or these green wedges that are targets, and we have to get away from that kind of thinking and see them as the assets to our city that they are,” Bekessy said.
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