Highway work

Roadwork on a 1.2-kilometre section of the Wimmera Highway at Dooen will help consolidate transport operations involving Wimmera Agriculture and Logistics Hub.

The State Government is investing $863,000 on the project, between Molyneaux Road and Dooen School Road.

The highway, apart from the thousands of drivers who use the road, also includes trucks travelling to and from the logistics hub, which provides intermodal rail and road transport facilities.

Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of grain move between Wimmera farms and domestic and international trade markets, making the area one of regional Victoria’s busiest rail freight hubs.

Construction was scheduled to start last month, with the government expecting work to take about eight weeks to complete.

The project follows the completion of works to rebuild a three-kilometre section of the highway at Vectis.