History
Before the 1999 State election in Victoria, the Labor Party under Steve Bracks promised to “kick start the development of more frequent, competitively priced, fast rail to regional centres consideration of the feasibility of more frequent, competitively priced, fast rail".
Read more about this topic: Regional Fast Rail Project
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