Fourteenth Street extension cost estimate doubles to $10 mil

THE cost to link Mildura with Merbein via Fourteenth Street has blown out to almost double since an initial study into the proposal was undertaken a decade ago. The original plan to extend Fourteenth Street from Ontario to Flora avenues aimed to ease traffic congestion on the busy Eleventh Street and enhance travel times between […]

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