{"id":30159,"date":"2024-02-12T11:33:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T01:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infrastructuremagazine.com.au\/?p=51125"},"modified":"2024-02-12T11:33:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T01:33:33","slug":"fed-level-crossing-upgrade-fund-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=30159","title":{"rendered":"Fed level crossing upgrade fund launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Federal Government\u2019s Regional Level Crossing Upgrade Fund (RLCUF) is set to deliver vital upgrades for level crossings across the state, increasing safety and saving lives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The RLCUF aims to improve railway crossing safety in regional areas and reduce serious and fatal crashes that have a devastating impact on communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Federal Government has committed $160 million over four years to State and Territory Governments to fund up to 50 per cent of the cost of delivering railway crossing upgrades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New South Wales Government will receive $28 million in the first round of funding, which will go towards a program of works across the state\u2019s regional road network and be delivered in partnership with rail infrastructure managers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The proposed list includes 23 priority projects for railway crossing improvements across nine electorates covering a large area of regional New South Wales.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These upgrades include the installation of retro-reflective boom gates, audible warning devices, updated signage and LED flashing lights increasing the visibility of crossings on both sides of the roadway in response to approaching trains.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government\u2019s Regional Level Crossing Upgrade Fund (RLCUF) is set to deliver vital upgrades for level crossings across the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1232,471,2251,1291,1433,163,8211,8203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investment","category-news","category-nsw","category-projects","category-rail","category-rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand","category-safety-and-training","category-spotlight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38001,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30159\/revisions\/38001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}