Transport

100,000 jobs, 80,000 residents and 50,000 students. They're big numbers and if it goes ahead, the Australian Education City in Werribee East will revolutionise Melbourne's West. The Herald Sun has been running an interesting week-long series on what Melbourne might look like in future and in John Masanaukas' - the Herald Sun's City Editor - piece on Australian Education City we learnt that a decision on the proposal is due to be made later in...

John Stanley , University of Sydney and David Hensher , University of Sydney A new report from Infrastructure Australia, Improving Public Transport: Customer Focused Franchising , and its associated technical report from Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC), will have state and federal treasurers salivating. The accompanying press release is clearly intended to set their fiscal juices flowing. It suggests that: … subjecting the operation of Australia’s...

Comment At first, there was $10 million on the table in the Victorian Budget. And when it was time for Canberra to hand down its budget, that figure swelled to $30 million. In short, whatever the final figure will be, a sizeable chunk of dough is to be spent executing a proper feasibility study on a Melbourne Airport Rail Link. The study will look a number of aspects, most notably what form a high-capacity rail link would take (its corridor, its...

Comment Sub-optimal outcomes, perceived or otherwise, were always going to be included in the wider level crossing removal project, and Buckley Street in Essendon just so happens to be one of them. In 2015, Urban Melbourne took a look at the Moonee Valley-led council proposal to remove the level crossing at Buckley Street and apply a new structure plan to Essendon. To this day, the notion of removing the existing rail-over-road bridge at Mount...