Pallas defends rail line revamp policy
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The Victorian Government is defending its policy for maintaining and upgrading the Mildura rail line.
A report for the Sunraysia Mallee Economic Development Board has found a failure to standardise the line will cost Victoria $100 million a year.
Work on a $73 million upgrade of the existing broad gauge line is currently being completed.
Victoria's Acting Transport Minister, Tim Pallas, says it is using the best available advice to decide how to improve the line, despite the calls for standardisation.
"I understand that is the community's view," he said.
"We continue to make investment decisions, prudent investment decisions, to get the best possible outcome and those investment decisions have been largely guided by Tim Fischer's [Switchpoint] report."
