Six million people a year would use train to Melbourne Airport

[Franky]

More PR spin from Fed govt, State govt & the airport management.
ABC --> MoU a 'significant' commitment to Melbourne Airport Rail Link, govt says

It should have read from 'Australian Taxpayers, State Government, and Airport Management'....

 

[TomVexille]

Airport rail construction has started

 

[cove]

Thanks for this news @TomVexille.
We haven’t been racing to Melbourne but have appreciated @Cruiser Elite input on his Lexus style taxi service that has worked well for us.

 

[SeatBackForward]

Airport rail construction has started

Who's the consortium building it?

Ok, the works started are more like enabling works for the actual line to be built, so still some time away!

Six kilometres of new track, two rail bridges and a full realignment of passenger and freight lines between West Footscray and Albion will untangle one of Melbourne’s most congested rail corridors. The works will create space for future airport trains and electrified Melton services to run through the Metro Tunnel, while Sunshine Station gets a major expansion including a longer concourse and two new regional platforms. Early designs also show a 26-metre-high flyover between Sunshine and Albion as part of a future stage.

'Remarkable transformation': Melbourne's 56-year airport rail has finally broken ground

 

[SYD]

Airport rail construction has started

Where did you see that?

 

[SeatBackForward]

Where did you see that?

Media release by Minister Catherine King: https://minister.infrastructure.gov.../airport-rail-works-start-first-stop-sunshine

Not physical construction - but the commencement of the Stage 1 work - and it begins with community consultation for the proposed designs.

 

[jrfsp]

Media release by Minister Catherine King: https://minister.infrastructure.gov.../airport-rail-works-start-first-stop-sunshine

Not physical construction - but the commencement of the Stage 1 work - and it begins with community consultation for the proposed designs.

Is this the “ National Building Authority”

 

[Hvr]

Media release by Minister Catherine King: https://minister.infrastructure.gov.../airport-rail-works-start-first-stop-sunshine

Not physical construction - but the commencement of the Stage 1 work - and it begins with community consultation for the proposed designs.

We're living in Utopia.

 

[serfty]

and it begins with community consultation for the proposed designs.

If anything like the "communty consultations" undertaken for other government developments they will be a T crossing and I dotting excercise before the predetermined design is announced.

 

[MooTime]

All I see is another CFMEU run. Gov over budget, time lines missed and mountain of debt added to the Himalayan size current debt of this basket case called Victoria.

 

[cove]

Himalayan debt fixers may take a generation to fix unless the Feds do a bailout so we all pay.