Comment “Every hour during the morning peak, 15,000 pedestrians cross the Spencer and Collins Street intersection outside Southern Cross Station which is five times the number of people in cars, yet cars are given twice the amount of time as pedestrians to pass through.” That's Cr Nicolas Frances Gilley from the City of Melbourne. It goes right to the heart of an issue that, for the moment, is a focus for the City of Melbourne but should be a...

The day after Urban Melbourne took a look at the swathe of construction images for the South Morang to Mernda railway line extension project, Spring Street has announced the project is running 6 months ahead of schedule and that test trains will be running on the extension by September said the Mernda rail extension project will be operating by September. At the same time, local MLAs Danielle Green and Lily D'ambrosio who also holds the suburban...

Glen Eira is currently the number one municipality outside of City of Melbourne in terms of the number of apartment projects at construction. Edging out Stonnington, Moreland and Port Phillip, Urban Melbourne is tracking 25 noteworthy projects with 10 or more dwellings that are now in the hands of builders. Carnegie and Bentleigh are driving Glen Eira's construction boom, with the typical project between 4-6 levels and for the most likely to...

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 Spring Street media release made mention of 'the new contracts provide more...