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Project Newsletter Project timeline 2018 Sunshine route announced for Melbourne Airport Rail Project newsletter 2019 ISSUE 01 // JANUARY 2021 Site investigations commenced Connecting Melbourne Airport Community and stakeholder engagement to our rail network underway A rail link to Melbourne This provides the quickest trip for the majority of passengers 2020-2021 Airport has long been with the least number of interchanges required. Melbourne Airport Rail talked about and is now route via the Metro a reality, with planning, Construction will begin in Tunnel announced 2022, with a target opening investigations and date of 2029. Business case and design development The Victorian and Australian design development underway. governments have committed $5 billion each to deliver the Statutory planning project, which will support up approval process The Victorian and Australian to 8000 jobs during construction. governments have announced Market engagement Melbourne Airport Rail will run Rail Projects Victoria (RPV) from a new station at Melbourne is part of the Major Transport Procurement process Airport via Sunshine Station, Infrastructure Authority (MTIA) where it will then travel through and is leading the design and the Metro Tunnel. There will be delivery of Melbourne Airport Rail. 2022 direct connections to five inner RPV wants to hear about what’s city locations, including Parkville, Start of construction important to you as we plan St Kilda Road and the heart of and design this project. More the CBD. information on how you can have 2029 Melbourne Airport Rail will provide your say can be found on the passengers with 10-minute back page of this newsletter. Target opening* turn-up-and-go services and an To learn more please visit the under 30-minute journey into the Melbourne Airport Rail website. CBD, and continuing on to the Cranbourne and Pakenham lines. *Subject to relevant Victorian and Federal planning, environmental and other government approvals. Getting the train to Legend Melbourne Airport New stations ~2 hour travel time 18 minute travel time 22 minute travel time Pedestrian connections Sunshine route 2 via Sunshine to/from via Metro Tunnel to/from via Metro Tunnel to/from between the Metro Tunnel hrs Melbourne Airport 18 Melbourne Airport 22 Melbourne Airport and City Loop Seymour In 2018 the Victorian Bendigo Existing network stations Government announced the Footscray Precinct Arden Precinct Healthcare, education and Arden Urban Renewal Precinct National Employment and selection of the Sunshine route Craigieburn Bendigo training with a focus on technology, life Innovation Clusters (NEICs) as the preferred option for sciences, health and education Regional lines Melbourne Airport Rail, based Mernda on a number of factors, including Melbourne Airport Rail Melbourne Upfield earlier deliverability at a lower Sunbury Airport Sunbury, Cranbourne & cost and superior connections Pakenham lines (Metro Tunnel) 24 minute travel time South Morang to more areas of regional Watergardens via Metro Tunnel to/from Geelong Fast Rail 24 Melbourne Airport Victoria and Melbourne. Existing metropolitan network 11 minute travel time Parkville Precinct Melbourne Airport Station 11 via Metro Tunnel to/from Employment and business Area activities Melbourne Airport activity centred around medical, Hurstbridge Melbourne Airport Rail services research and tertiary education will connect to Melbourne Airport Sunshine Precinct via a new premium station. Healthcare, manufacturing, education and training Healthcare Residential Retail New dedicated tracks will be constructed along the existing Clifton Hill Footscray Arden Parkville 27 minute travel time Albion-Jacana rail corridor 27 via Metro Tunnel to/from between Sunshine and Airport Ballarat Melbourne Airport Tertiary Employment Training West. The tracks will then education & Business State Library Precinct cross the M80 Ring Road Melton Sunshine Melbourne Central/ North Flagstaff State Library Shopping, education, connection and head towards the airport Melbourne to City Loop services at following Airport Drive, before Melbourne Central arriving at the new station at ~90 minute travel time Research Manufacturing 90 via Sunshine to/from Melbourne Airport. Melbourne Airport Geelong services Parliament via Sunshine Southern Additional stations between Ballarat Cross Sunshine and the airport are Laverton Newport Richmond Burnley Camberwell Ringwood being considered as part 42 minute travel time via Metro Tunnel to/from Lilydale of the current planning and 42 Melbourne Airport design process. ~60 minute travel time via Sunshine to/from Caulfield 60 Melbourne Airport Tertiary education Through the Metro Tunnel Werribee Flinders Street/ South and residential Belgrave Geelong Town Hall Yarra Alamein The route through the Metro Williamstown Tunnel ensures the benefits of Anzac this transformational project are 60 minute travel time delivered to Victorians as quickly Geelong Caulfield via Metro Tunnel to/from and efficiently as possible. 60 Melbourne Airport 29 minute travel time This solution delivers the best via Metro Tunnel to/from Glen Waverley 29 Melbourne Airport Clayton/Monash connections for all Victorians, Waurn Ponds Employment and business getting people to where they activity centred around medical, Town Hall Precinct want to go with easy transfers Sandringham research and tertiary education 50 minute travel time Employment and business, Clayton to all regional lines and trips into 50 via Werribee to/from Faster services shopping, Fed Square and the heart of the CBD in under Southern Cross Station connection to City Loop for Geelong services at Flinders 30 minutes. Geelong via Werribee Street Station New dedicated tracks along Victoria’s fastest growing regional the Werribee corridor city with a population expected to between Werribee and grow by almost 50% to approximately Traralgon Laverton, to deliver faster 485,000 by 2051 The Metro Tunnel Geelong services. Dandenong This also frees up room for Frankston more trains to Melbourne’s 32 minute travel time Pakenham The Metro Tunnel will create a new west and regional Victoria 32 via Metro Tunnel to/from Baxter end-to-end rail line from Sunbury including Wyndham, Melbourne Airport Cranbourne Melton, Ballarat and Stony Point in the west to Cranbourne and Bendigo via the Sunshine Pakenham in the south-east, with corridor. Anzac Precinct high capacity trains and five new St Kilda Road residential and ~3 hour travel time employment precinct Cranbourne/ 3 via Metro Tunnel to/from underground stations. Pakenham hrs Melbourne Airport It creates capacity for an extra Board at any station along the line for Traralgon 500,000 train passengers across an uninterrupted trip the network in peak periods Please note, journey times are indicative and will to Melbourne Airport every week. be verified in the development of the business case. Delivering benefits for all Victorians Melbourne Airport Rail will Through connections at Passengers to the state’s north provide a reliable, viable Sunshine, the Metro Tunnel east will also benefit from alternative to road travel for or along the Cranbourne and Melbourne Airport Rail through all Victorians, without the need Pakenham lines, the majority of its future integration with the to worry about traffic delays passengers will be able to travel Suburban Rail Loop, which or parking. to Melbourne Airport with only proposes a new connection one interchange. at Broadmeadows. Melbourne Airport 1 turn-up-and go Direct access from services from 10 Under 30 mins 30 metropolitan stations MINUTE Melbourne Airport continuous journey to Melbourne Airport, into the CBD single change for all other metropolitan and regional lines Up to 8000 jobs supported during construction, including Enhanced connectivity more than one million hours to key health, research, Target opening date of work done by apprentices, education, business and 2029* trainees and cadets employment precincts *Subject to relevant Victorian and Federal planning, environmental and other government approvals. Victoria’s Big Build Have your say Victoria is currently in a transport To help plan Melbourne Airport Stay up to date about future construction boom with 165 Rail, we want to know more opportunities to get involved major road and rail projects being about what’s important to you. by signing up to the Melbourne delivered and approximately $80 Airport Rail e-newsletter on the This could include station billion invested. It’s not just about ‘Contact Us’ page of the website. facilities, walking and cycling current works, with significant connections, open space and planning also underway for a other key features near the number of projects that are rail alignment. set to transform the way Victorians travel. You can have your say by visiting our website airportrail.vic.gov.au Victoria’s Big Build continues to complete the interactive to create thousands of jobs mapping exercise and the across Victoria, through online survey. record investment in transport infrastructure projects that You can also visit our virtual connect communities and get information session to learn Victorians where they need to more about the project. go safer and sooner. Find out more at bigbuild.vic.gov.au More information To fi nd out more about Melbourne Airport Rail: airportrail.vic.gov.au 1800 105 105 (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) It should be noted that this information is current at the time of printing, however due to unforeseen circumstances, Rail Projects Victoria changes may occur. Please visit railprojects.vic.gov.au for PO Box 4509, Melbourne, VIC 3001 the latest updates. 893.
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