The Victorian Government has unveiled updated & finalised designs for the stations on the Melbourne Metro project with each station entrance, concourse & ticketing area and platform level having its own distinct identity. With a nod to each station location’s context and heritage, the station entrances are anything but uniform. Hassell in conjunction with Weston…
The final construction blitz on the Dandenong corridor level crossing removals starts tonight with buses set to replace all train services from 8pm until the first train on Monday 18th of June. The level crossings at Grange Road, Koornang Road, Murrumbeena Road and Poath Road will be erased at the completion of the works along with…
…so says the first problem on the North East Link’s investment logic map(link is external). According to the business case documents released for the North East Link over the weekend, each problem outlined has a weighting with the lack of orbital connectivity scoring 40%; the other two problems, inefficient freight movements between north & south-east and…
The Altona loop is next in line to get the construction blitz treatment with the level crossing removal programme for the area set to shut the line down for approximately six weeks. Between the 16th of June and the 29th of July buses will replace trains on the Altona Loop as work continues to remove…
The Victorian Government has announced an independent chair has been appointed to a committee of local representatives that will deliver a plan for the redevelopment of the Box Hill interchange. The Minister for Public Transport, Jacinta Allan, announced Knowles Tivendale as chair of the Box Hill Transit Interchange Steering Committee. According to a Spring Street…
ANALYSIS AND COMMENT Despite both the Federal Infrastructure Minister and Premier telling The Age(link is external) they were both committed to waiting for the outcome of the various studies business cases into new public transport links that were commited to as part of the budgetary process, the sniping and one-upmanship of both state and federal…
Spring Street has announced a new wave of tram stop upgrades which will see $19 million spent on upgrading stops in both the north and south of the city’s network. 6 stops between Victoria Parade and Kerr Street along Nicholson Street in Carlton/Fitzroy will be upgraded with centre island platforms. The #96 East Brunswick –…
The re-opening of the Hurstbridge line along with the new Rosanna station marks the end of major civil works which included lifting the railway over Lower Plenty Road, lowering it under Grange Road, duplicating a tunnel between Rosanna and Heidelberg and building a new station. The Hurstbridge line only had two level crossings on Spring…