Yearly Archives: 2018

THE NEW TRAM TO THE SOUTH-EAST – WHAT WE’D LIKE TO SEE

PROJECT DATABASE SEARCH Search by Project name / Address / Suburb Status: AnyPlanning AssessmentApprovedRegistration and SalesUnder Construction ResidentialCommercialInstitutionalMixed UseRetailTransportationHotelServiced ApartmentsAged CareStudent AccommodationAffordable Rental Housing Postcode Local Government Area Architect Developer Builder The state government has signalled its $3 million 2018 budget contribution announced on Tuesday for the planning work on the new south-east tram line…

SPRING STREET ANNOUNCES BUDGET MONEY FOR A NEW TRAM LINE BETWEEN CAULFIELD, MONASH UNIVERSITY AND ROWVILLE

The State Government has announced this year’s budget will include $3million to kick off the planning for a new tram / light rail line which would use the Dandenong Road and Wellington Road corridors and link Caulfield, the Monash employment cluster & university and eventually Rowville. It is anticipated the new tram line would be…

FRANKSTON STATION REBUILD AND SKYE ROAD LEVEL CROSSING REMOVAL TO BE COMPLETE BY MID JUNE

In the merry-go-round of construction blitzes produced by the ongoing level crossing removal project, it’s the Frankston line’s turn with multiple rail line shutdowns to occur within May and June. Spring Street announced that between the 4th and 27th of May buses will replace trains between Frankston & Carrum as well as the entire Stony…

MELBOURNE’S NEW BUS OPERATOR CONTRACTS ANNOUNCED

Foreshadowed in February 2017, Melbourne’s bus operating contracts were flagged for review and the government has begun to announce which operators have re-signed on the dotted line. The Minister for Public Transport, Jacinta Allan, announced on Easter Monday that Ventura, CDC Victoria and Donric have all signed new operating contracts with the government. The original…

PONDERING WHERE UNDERGROUND LIGHT RAIL MIGHT SUIT MELBOURNE

Other cities around the world are looking to building more advanced light rail systems as I discussed in this article.  In the absence, still, of any transport plan for people who don’t need to travel to the CBD for work and in the context of the inevitable growth of Melbourne’s already decentralised employment centres which…

NOW WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO RELEASE MELBOURNE’S LONG-TERM TRANSPORT PLAN

In all the kerfuffle that’s been caused by the release of Infrastructure Australia’s national priority list yesterday, the citation of the ongoing ‘need’ to sort out the Eastern Freeway to City link gap is perhaps the most predictable. It’s the cheapest of cheap shots for some segments of the media to try and wedge the…

PLANNING SCHEME CHANGES FOR PAKENHAM/CRANBOURNE & SUNBURY UPGRADES ONLINE

Now that one of the biggest milestones in the Melbourne Metro Tunnel project has been and gone – placing the order for the tunneling machines – the Melbourne Metro Rail Authority has published information pertaining to other works that will be carried out to transport the Pakenham/Cranbourne and Sunbury lines into one largely operationally independent…

METRO TUNNEL CHANGES SPARK NEW PLANNING AMENDMENT WHILE LEVEL CROSSING REMOVALS POWER ON

An amendment to the design and development overlay governing the Melbourne Metro project has been triggered and is now being advertised after the contractor for the tunnel and station build has refined the route the tunnels will take. During the Environmental Effects Statement process, a DDO was applied to all land that could be directly…

THE MONASH FREEWAY WIDENING JUGGERNAUT ROLLS ON, HAS ANYONE IN GOVERNMENT THOUGHT OF ALTERNATIVES?

The Premier has announced stage 2 of the latest round of Monash Freeway widening will include thickening the road in the midsection of the road as well as widening the road as far as Cardinia Road. Curiously, widening works will mean outbound lanes from Warrigal Road to Eastlink will go from 4 to 5 lanes…

A LOOK AT CITY OF DAREBIN’S ADVOCACY IN REGARDS TO EXPANDING THE BELL STREET LEVEL CROSSING REMOVAL PROJECT

At its April 3rd meeting of last year, the City of Darebin released a technical and pre-feasibility study compiled by Raylink Consulting which looked at solutions for expanding the scope of the Bell Street level crossing removal project to cover 3 additional roads through the use of an elevated rail segment. Bell Street and Bell…