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VicRoads is a government joint venture in the state of Victoria, Australia. In the state, it is responsible for driver licensing and vehicle registration . It is owned and operated through a joint venture between the Victorian government and a consortium made up of Aware Super , Australian Retirement Trust and Macquarie Asset Management .
In addition, the Act creates Victoria's key road agency, the Roads Corporation or VicRoads. An important road regulation statute is the Road Management Act 2004, [8] which regulates the management of Victoria's road network. The key statute that regulates Victoria's road safety is the Road Safety Act 1986. [9]
However, VicRoads do know that around 30,000 sets of custom registration plates are made every year, and they estimate 10 percent of registered vehicles have custom registration plates. [ 29 ] Sometimes car importers or dealerships reserve a range of plates to put on their cars, the contracts for which are often sold on to customers with the ...
The move received support from the Rail, Tram and Bus Union, but was opposed by the Australian Services Union, representing many VicRoads staff. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The Public Transport Users Association offered its cautious support for the changes, saying that although integration of planning functions was a positive, the merger risked ...
Route numbers have been allocated to Victoria's roads since 1954, with the introduction of National Routes across all states and territories in Australia, symbolised by a white shield with black writing; National Route 1 ('Highway 1') was one of the best-known numbered national routes, due to its fame for circumnavigating the continent.
Highways declared in VicRoads manuals, but not signed accordingly: Bulleen Highway (State Route 52), signed as Bulleen Road; Hoddle Highway (State Route 29), signed as Hoddle Street, Punt Road, Barkly Street; Plenty Valley Highway (State Routes 21/27/48), signed as Albert Street, Plenty Road
The Outer Metropolitan Ring (OMR) planning study has been established by VicRoads to investigate transport requirements and options for the Werribee – Melton – Tullamarine – Mickleham corridor. It is intended to ultimately provide for an eight lane freeway (four lanes in each direction) together with four rail lines within the median ...
The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 [17] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Great Alpine Road (Arterial #4005), beginning at Wangaratta Road at Wangaratta and ending at Princes Highway in Bairnsdale. [4]