page_title: Perth Freight Link
section_title: Project announced
hierarchical_section_title: Perth Freight Link / History / Project announced
caption_attribution_description: Protest against the Roe 8 / Perth Freight link proposal
context_page_description: The Perth Freight Link was a proposed $1.9 billion project in Perth, Western Australia to improve the road freight link between Kewdale and Fremantle Harbour. The project was announced by the state government in May 2014, but was cancelled following a change of government at the March 2017 state election.
  The proposal included multiple stages: a five-kilometre extension of Roe Highway to Stock Road; a second stage linking Roe 8 to Stirling Highway, bypassing fourteen sets of traffic signals; and a final stage connecting into the Port of Fremantle. The plan included mandatory GPS tracking of all vehicles over an undisclosed size or weight with a charge per kilometre being applied for vehicles travelling along the route between Muchea and North Fremantle. The extension would have taken the highway from its current terminus at Kwinana Freeway approximately five kilometres further west through the Beeliar Wetlands to Stock Road, near Forrest Road in Coolbellup. The proposed route was along or within the vicinity of an existing road reserve in the Perth Metropolitan Region Scheme.
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context_section_description: The Perth Freight Link project was announced in May 2014, with joint funding between the state and federal governments. The announcement included plans for a toll on the route, which would only apply to trucks. In December 2014, the state government revealed that they planned to construct the Freight Link between early 2016 and 2019, and that the toll would apply on the 85-kilometre-long (53 mi) truck route between Muchea (north of Perth) and Fremantle, once the link was completed.
  Uncertainty over the project's scope and time frame emerged in mid-2015. Following community opposition to the second stage, which would require residential properties to be compulsorily acquired and the demolition of homes, alternative routes were considered by the government. The uncertainty over stage 2 remained for over a year. In September 2016, there still was not a decision on the stage's timing, nor its route, but a tunnel was considered by Barnett as the most likely option. A tunnel under White Gum Valley, Beaconsfield and Hilton was committed to on 15 January 2017.
caption: Rethink the Link[25] protest signs against the Perth Freight Link, 2015
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