The background paper(link is external) authored by Dr John Stone of the University of Melbourne and Dr Ian Woodcock of RMIT which adds to the growing suite of documents to inform the City of Melbourne’s transport strategy refresh strikes an interesting, metropolitan-wide, tone. Drs Stone and Woodcock neatly tie together all the pieces in the…
The advocacy group behind the ‘AirTrain’ rail vision for Victoria has called on the $5 billion to be allocated in the Federal budget to be deployed on a Melbourne Airport Rail Link that will benefit not just the city, but the state. Citing the four routes from a 5-year-old study that was on display at…
The City of Melbourne has released the latest discussion paper that is being used to inform submissions on its transport policy refresh. The daily population of the municipality is projected to grow from 900,000 today to 1,400,000 by 2036 and the council is looking to refresh all facets of its transport strategy. Two weeks ago, the…
Infrastructure Victoria has been busy devising a new swathe of advice for the state government, releasing its Five-year focus: immediate actions to tackle congestion paper(link is external) today. Interestingly enough, the Herald Sun has chosen to portray the release of the paper as a plan, with its frontpage teaser on its website suggesting it’s a plan that…
Two weeks ago the Minister for Public Transport announced three companies which operate bus routes in Melbourne have signed on to new performance-based contracts. Ventura, Donric and CDC Victoria were announced as the three companies which signed on the dotted line for contracts which would “provide more flexibility to improve and expand services where they…
A part of the Eastern / Autumn school holiday construction blitz has come to a close with the re-opening of rail services to the newest of Melbourne’s rebuilt stations in Clayton. The Minister for Public Transport has opened the new Clayton Station this morning marking the second of five new stations to re-open that are…
The Premier’s media release(link is external) from yesterday says $3million for the new tram line to the south-east will be used “for design and planning works to examine alignments, park and ride options, stop locations, cost and travel time benefits.” On a Channel 9 news report aired on their 6pm bulletin on Tuesday night, footage showed…
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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…
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…