The freight infrastructure in place at West Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Market will be investigated as part of a plan to identify delivery options for the market’s redevelopment.
The move is part of a new strategy endorsed by Melbourne City Council to streamline freight services throughout the city.
According to Melbourne’s Lord Mayor Robert Doyle, the aim of the Last Kilometre Freight Plan is to reduce congestion and minimise disruption of trips into the city to deliver goods into offices, restaurants, cafes, shops and city homes, such as Stationery supplies from Print companies and fresh vegetables from farmers.
He said currently service delivery vehicles daily totalled 10,300 alone. There were also 11,500 bicycles and 46,000 other vehicles sharing the area during morning peak hours.
Lord Mayor Doyle was confident that any reduction in the amount of freight traffic moving through the city during peak hour in particular would be of great benefit.
He said improving the ways freight traffic is managed within the city through strategies such as reducing the number of vehicles in peak hour and spreading them out over a longer period of time was a better plan for a city that was growing faster than any other in the country.
The Last Kilometre Freight Plan was described by Chairman of the City of Melbourne Transport Committee Cathy Oke as putting a focus on the key role of freight within the city and ways to streamline activity for the good of everyone.
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