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Sunshine route announced for Melbourne Airport Rail
Project newsletter 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 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. 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 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 egend Melbourne Airport New stations hour travel time 1 minute travel time minute travel time Pedestrian connections Sunshine route via Sunshine to from via Metro Tunnel to from via Metro Tunnel to from between the Metro Tunnel hrs Melbourne Airport 1 Melbourne Airport Melbourne Airport and City Loop Se mour In 2018 the Victorian en o Existing network stations Government announced the ootscr Prec nct r en Prec nct Healthcare, education and Arden Urban Renewal Precinct National Employment and selection of the Sunshine route raigieburn endigo 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 Sunbur Airport Sunbury, Cranbourne & cost and superior connections Pakenham lines (Metro Tunnel) minute travel time South Morang to more areas of regional atergardens via Metro Tunnel to from Geelong Fast Rail Melbourne Airport Victoria and Melbourne. Existing metropolitan network 11 minute travel time P r lle Prec nct Melbourne Airport Station 11 via Metro Tunnel to from Employment and business Area activities Melbourne Airport activity centred around medical, urstbridge Melbourne Airport Rail services research and tertiary education will connect to Melbourne Airport ns ne Prec nct via a new premium station. Healthcare, manufacturing, education and training Healthcare Residential Retail New dedicated tracks will be constructed along the existing lifton ill ootscra Arden ar ville minute travel time Albion-Jacana rail corridor via Metro Tunnel to from between Sunshine and Airport allarat Melbourne Airport Tertiary Employment Training West. The tracks will then education & Business t te r r Prec nct cross the M80 Ring Road Melton Sunshine Melbourne entral orth lagstaff State ibrar 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 0 minute travel time Research Manufacturing 0 via Sunshine to from Melbourne Airport. Melbourne Airport eelon ser ces arliament ns ne Southern Additional stations between ll r t ross Sunshine and the airport are averton e port ichmond urnle amber ell ing ood being considered as part minute travel time via Metro Tunnel to from il dale of the current planning and Melbourne Airport design process. 0 minute travel time via Sunshine to from l el 0 Melbourne Airport Tertiary education Through the Metro Tunnel erribee linders Street South and residential elgrave eelon To n all arra Alamein The route through the Metro illiamsto n Tunnel ensures the benefits of An ac this transformational project are 0 minute travel time delivered to Victorians as quickly eelong aulfield via Metro Tunnel to from and efficiently as possible. 0 Melbourne Airport minute travel time This solution delivers the best via Metro Tunnel to from len averle Melbourne Airport l ton on s connections for all Victorians, aurn onds Employment and business getting people to where they activity centred around medical, own ll Prec nct want to go with easy transfers Sandringham research and tertiary education 0 minute travel time Employment and business, la ton to all regional lines and trips into 0 via erribee to from ster ser ces shopping, Fed Square and the heart of the CBD in under Southern ross Station connection to City Loop or eelon services at Flinders 30 minutes. eelon err ee 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. andenong This also frees up room for ran ston more trains to Melbourne’s minute travel time a enham The Metro Tunnel will create a new west and regional Victoria via Metro Tunnel to from a ter end-to-end rail line from Sunbury including Wyndham, Melbourne Airport ranbourne Melton, Ballarat and Ston oint in the west to Cranbourne and Bendigo via the Sunshine Pakenham in the south-east, with corridor. n c Prec nct high capacity trains and five new St Kilda Road residential and hour travel time employment precinct r n o rne via Metro Tunnel to from underground stations. P en hrs Melbourne Airport It creates capacity for an extra Board at any station along the line for r r l on 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.
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turn-up-and go Direct access from services from 10 Under 0 mins 0 metropolitan stations MI UTE Melbourne Airport continuous journey to Melbourne Airport into the CBD single change for all other metropolitan and regional lines Up to 000 jobs supported during construction, including Enhanced connectivit more than one million hours to key health, research, Target opening date of work done by apprentices, education, business and 0 trainees and cadets employment precincts
*Subject to relevant Victorian and Federal planning, environmental and other government approvals.
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More information To fi nd out more about Melbourne Airport Rail: airportrail.vic.gov.au
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