🎉 Let's celebr-eighty with Pakenham! ✅ We've removed 80 dangerous and congested level crossings around Melbourne, celebrating the milestone at our Pakenham Level Crossing Removal Project. ➡️ For more info: bit.ly/3RbfKAR
@@JTRAIN Much closer to Surrey Hills site though - the Government should be trying to increase access to public transport options, not add another 500m walk from where a station was previously located for the last 100+ years. If the argument is that all new platforms need to be straight, then there's a suitable section just to the east of the original Mont Albert station. The LXRP has permanently worsened Mont Albert and Surrey Hills, and reduced (rather than increased) these "open spaces" they're so proud of.
I would say the new East Pakenham Station which is the new terminus of the Pakenham Line and the new Union Station on the Belgrave/Lilydale line should replace both the former Mont Albert and Surrey Hills Stations then.
That’s going to be an underpass between Cheltenham Rd and the highway now, too hard to remove the crossing exactly where it is now. bigbuild.vic.gov.au/library/level-crossing-removal-project/cran-pak/webster/fact-sheets/webster-street-selecting-best-designs-factsheet-november-2023
@@theupperhiker7262 I filmed that level crossing with my digital camcorder about 5 years ago because I heard at that time that it was going to be removed soon and it still isn't even close to being removed yet.
