The State’s current debt, higher priority projects and the City of Melbourne’s inability to plan their way out of a cardboard box without developer intiative has meant that the Fishermans Bend development has been conveniently dropped.
But why are they turning more of the Upfield line into an elevated railway when they can’t even deliver on promised light rail for Fisherman’s Bend? Some of the level crossings are still a pain, but the traffic flows a lot better now that there are a few more major east-west roads crossing the Upfield line without level crossings.
It would be another Southbank. Developers pad their pockets and some sterile, poorly planned and poorly built apartment blocks get dumped in a criss cross of poorly planned streets. Fisherman’s bend is near nothing of interest, just would be high end suburban sprawl in contaminated soil.
@briongloid maybe somebody is recognising that area will probably be underwater by 2050?
Can we just blow a hole in the side of the casino and put the train line back how it was?
The plan’s still underway, isn’t it? It’s weird that the tram line hasn’t been started. I’d love to move over there if they bloody well added the tram.
Forget a tram, they need a train. If you can’t get to the end of fisherman’s bend from either flinders street or southern cross within 15 minutes, it’s DOA
