Melbourne Airport Rail Project Update 2020
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Connecting Melbourne Airport to our Rail network Project Update 2020 Introduction The Melbourne The Australian and Victorian This document provides an governments are committed update on key elements of the Airport Rail project to delivering a rail service that project, including: connects people from the airport will deliver rail to to where they need to go — — the Melbourne Airport be that work, home or Victoria’s Rail route and how it will the airport for the major regional centres. connect into the existing rail network very first time That’s why we are connecting — benefits and travel times in Victoria. Melbourne Airport Rail into the Metro Tunnel, — construction timeframes providing passengers with — work undertaken to date Building Melbourne Airport Rail a 10-minute turn-up-and- will be a massive job working go service from Melbourne — next steps. in a complex rail environment. Airport and an under 30-minute The project will deliver continuous journey into the significant benefits including CBD, connecting seamlessly supporting up to 8000 jobs into the existing metropolitan during construction and putting and regional network. Melbourne on par with other cities in Australia and across the world that have airport rail services. 2 Melbourne Airport Rail – Project Update 2020 Background The Melbourne Airport Rail project Melbourne Airport Rail is a transformational public transport project connecting Melbourne Airport with a rail service for the first time. The Australian and Victorian governments have committed $5 billion each to deliver Sunshine Route Melbourne Airport Rail, which will run from Melbourne’s CBD to Melbourne Airport via Sunshine. After detailed consideration of several options, the Rail Projects Victoria (RPV) is Sunshine Route was selected for delivering Melbourne Airport Rail a number of reasons including: and is responsible for development of the project reference design, — superior connections to site investigations, stakeholder more areas of Melbourne engagement, planning approvals through its integration and procurement, through with the Metro Tunnel to construction delivery and project commissioning. — superior connections to RPV is part of the Major Transport regional Victoria through Infrastructure Authority (MTIA) a Sunshine interchange which was established to oversee major transport infrastructure — earlier deliverability projects in Victoria. at a lower cost. Melbourne Airport Rail – Project Update 2020 3 Melbourne Airport Rail through the Metro Tunnel The Metro Tunnel will be completed prior to Melbourne Airport Rail. The Metro Tunnel will create a new end-to-end rail line from Sunbury in the west to Cranbourne and Pakenham in the south-east, with high capacity trains and five new underground stations. The Metro Tunnel creates capacity for an extra 500,000 train passengers across the network in peak periods every week. 4 Melbourne Airport Rail – Project Update 2020 Route update Building on the 2018 decision to operate Melbourne Airport Rail via Sunshine, RPV has undertaken technical, operational and economic analysis to determine a route that delivers the best solution for the majority of Victorians and visitors to the state. The Victorian Government has identified the following key elements as the optimal foundations for the project. 1 2 Melbourne Airport Rail There will be a new premium services will run via Sunshine station at Melbourne Airport Station directly through the new Metro Tunnel Melbourne Airport To Bendigo Sunbury Sunshine Arden Parkville To Ballarat State Library CBD To Geelong Town Hall Legend Caulfield Melbourne Airport Rail New stations Anzac Pakenham Sunbury, Cranbourne and To Gippsland Pakenham lines (Metro Tunnel) Cranbourne Regional connections Melbourne Airport Rail – Project Update 2020 5 Connectivity Melbourne Airport Rail services will maximise airport connectivity to Victoria’s metropolitan and regional rail networks. Better connections To the CBD and suburbs To the regions To employment Connecting to the Metro Tunnel and growth areas and innovation hubs provides better access to Passengers on the Geelong, and Priority Precincts Melbourne's CBD and suburbs, Ballarat and Bendigo lines, as Melbourne Airport Rail’s giving passengers more choice well as from the growth areas integration with the Metro Tunnel about how they travel. to Melbourne's west around provides enhanced connectivity Melton and Wyndham, will be for airport passengers to key Thirty stations will have direct able to switch between regional health, research and education, access to Melbourne Airport and airport services at Sunshine. development and employment without changing trains, Gippsland and the south-eastern precincts at Arden, Dandenong, with most other passengers growth corridors of Casey and Monash, Parkville, Sunshine only needing to change once. Cardinia will also connect directly and Werribee. to the airport via the Cranbourne Town Hall and State Library and Pakenham lines and the stations provide direct links to Metro Tunnel. Flinders Street and Melbourne Central stations and to Swanston Street trams — the heart of Melbourne's tram network. Western growth areas — Melton and Wyndham Major Melbourne Airport Rail services regional will connect passengers to... cities Geelong Bendigo Ballarat All metropolitan rail lines 6 Melbourne Airport Rail – Project Update 2020 Gippsland and South-eastern growth corridor — Casey and Cardinia The centre of Melbourne at the new Town Hall and State Library The Arden underground Urban Renewal stations Precinct All stops along the metropolitan rail network’s busiest lines — the Cranbourne and Pakenham lines Melbourne’s world- renowned health, research and education precinct St Kilda Road’s at Parkville employment and business hub — with 33,000 jobs and 17,000 residents located within 800 metres of the new Anzac Station Melbourne Airport Rail – Project Update 2020 7 Project delivery Using the Metro Tunnel enables the earliest possible delivery of Melbourne Airport Rail. Melbourne Airport Rail Impacts during construction Maintaining continuity services will operate via the on both the existing rail and minimising disruption Metro Tunnel from 2029*. network and communities in is achieved for both regional proximity of the rail corridor and metropolitan services, as the There will be no need for a will be reduced when compared volume of works on the busiest new class of rolling stock to with alternative options. and most complex section of operate Melbourne Airport Rail tracks is significantly reduced. services. The new fleet of High Environmental impacts Capacity Metro Trains using the associated with delivery such Metro Tunnel, and associated as noise, dust and vibration are stabling and maintenance lessened due to the condensed facilities, will be integrated construction footprint with Melbourne Airport of the project. Rail operations. * Subject to relevant Victorian and Federal planning, environmental and other government approvals. 8 Melbourne Airport Rail – Project Update 2020 Value for money The Victorian and Australian governments have signed a joint agreement to build Melbourne Airport Rail and committed $5 billion each in funding. Detailed planning and Industry engagement will inform development work is currently the optimal contract packaging underway which will inform more approach. The final project detailed cost estimates. budget will be confirmed once all major contracts are awarded. The proposed project scope includes the following Construction is well underway key elements: on the Metro Tunnel. Running Melbourne Airport Rail services through the Metro Tunnel is an — A new premium station effective way of maximising at Melbourne Airport the benefits of this existing infrastructure investment. — New tracks and elevated structures between Melbourne Airport and Albion — Track reconfiguration including new tracks and structures to separate lines between Albion and Sunshine stations. Melbourne Airport Rail – Project Update 2020 9 Legend ~2 hour travel time 22 minute travel time via Sunshine to/from via Metro Tunnel to/from 2 New stations hrs Melbourne Airport 18 minute travel time 22 Melbourne Airport Seymour via Metro Tunnel to/from Pedestrian connections between 18 Melbourne Airport Bendigo Arden Precinct the Metro Tunnel and City Loop Arden Urban Renewal Precinct Footscray Precinct Craigieburn Existing network stations Bendigo with a focus on technology, life Healthcare, education and sciences, health and education training National Employment and Mernda Innovation Clusters (NEICs) Melbourne Upfield Regional lines Sunbury Airport Melbourne Airport Rail 24 minute travel time South Morang Sunbury, Cranbourne & Watergardens via Metro Tunnel to/from 24 Melbourne Airport Pakenham lines (Metro Tunnel) Existing network 11 minute travel time Parkville Precinct via Metro Tunnel to/from Employment and business 11 Area activities Melbourne Airport activity centred around medical, Hurstbridge research and tertiary education Sunshine Precinct Healthcare, manufacturing, education and training Healthcare Residential Manufacturing Retail Clifton Hill Footscray Arden Parkville 27 minute travel time via Metro Tunnel to/from Ballarat 27 Melbourne Airport Tertiary Employment Training Research Melton Sunshine Melbourne Central/ State Library Precinct education & Business North Flagstaff State Library Shopping, education, connection Melbourne to City Loop services at Melbourne Central ~90 minute travel time via Sunshine to/from 90 Melbourne Airport Parliament Southern