Boring machines finish digging Melbourne's Metro Tunnel
Metro Tunnel’s builders prepare to remove massive tunnelling machines and extract them from underground after they finished excavating twin nine-kilometre rail tunnels beneath the city.
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Metro Tunnel’s builders prepare to remove massive tunnelling machines and extract them from underground after they finished excavating twin nine-kilometre rail tunnels beneath the city.
âTime is running outâ: Calls to upgrade Caulfield Station before Metro Tunnel opens Weâre sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement Caulfield Station could become a major bottleneck once the $13.7 billion Metro Tunnel is built in 2025, if multimillion-dollar upgrades to construct a new concourse do not go ahead. The Victorian Transport Action Group is calling for up to $70 million worth of upgrades to the second-busiest station outside the city, arguing Caulfield Station could face overcrowding if the need ...
Victorian Government announces 450 extra train services after timetable changes Posted SunSunday 31 updated SunSunday 31 Off-peak passengers will get a 30 per cent discount on fares. ( Share Print text only Cancel New timetables for Victoria's train network have added 280 metropolitan and 170 regional services per week. Key points: An updated timetable is adding 450 extra services to Victoria's train network every week The Victorian Government is also launching a website where passengers can check the busyness of services Fare discounts will apply for the next three months in a bid to get Vi...
VIC Premier Victorians now have 450 extra train services every week, as the biggest timetable change since the opening of the City Loop comes into place from today. The Andrews Labor Government has added 280 metropolitan and 170 regional services to the network every week, alongside new capacity indicator technology that will give passengers on Melbourne’s trains access to information about how busy their train or station will be – helping people stay safe as we move through our recovery from the pandemic. After four months of extensive testing and trials, the new online tool called Ride...
INFRASTRUCTURE VICTORIA released its new draft 30-year infrastructure strategy for community comment in December 2020. Comments are invited before 26 February. A final strategy will then be presented to the State Government, who’ll have 12 months to respond and develop a 5-year infrastructure plan (based on the strategy, one hopes!). There’s little to explain how its 95 recommendations were arrived at. There are very few stated targets or directions, nor is there a list of KPIs to monitor as time passes, and drive adjustments to the strategy. IV’s ten stated objectives are very broad, m...