The Western Rail Plan sets out a range of objectives needed to deliver a faster, high-capacity rail network servicing our growing outer suburbs and regional cities.
The plan is supported by a $130 million investment from the Victorian and Australian governments for detailed engineering and design work, which is being undertaken by Level Crossing Removal Project alongside the planning for Melbourne Airport Rail.
Significant progress has already been made in this space, with the Australian and Victorian governments announcing:
- the route for Melbourne Airport Rail
- the first stage of Geelong Fast Rail.
Transforming Victoria’s rail network in the growing west requires staged investments across the medium and long-term to maximise benefits to passengers and increase capacity in the network.
It is essential that these complex and interrelated investments are planned and sequenced carefully to ensure the best network and passenger outcomes are achieved.
The most important project for passenger services on the books for the government and we have not seen any real progress on this initiative.
Should be prioritised ahead of the SRL but level with the MARL. Western suburbs of Melbourne are the fasting growing region in Australia and what has been delivered in the previous decade to address other than some station upgrades.
Has any work actually been completed on this project?
From my observation on the Western Routes Geelong and Warrnambool line are currently having occo and track upgrades and now shut for more work, wooden sleep to concert on that rail corridor, axle counters and siding and all that for the Newer Volciteies to take over the Warrnambool route from loco haul….