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Flagstaff having an entrance closed on weekends to save a few dollars can get ****ed. Missed a train due to this.
Vic Best and worst train stations in Melbourne
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Pakenhamsaint
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Cave Hill? That one has been talked about for years.
Probably waiting for the land to get sold and the estates to start getting built.
The proposal is to fill in the old quarry and build a new housing estate/small community there. A train station has always been on the books for that area.
However - despite all the rhetoric and Artists Impressions, no progress has been made (the ownership of the quarry has been passed around for the last few years), for a couple of reasons.
First - Vic Historical Heritage has decided that the Quarry (which is only a small part of the overall site) is 'Heritage Listed' and so we have to have 'Preservation' etc - it's just a big hole in the ground, for Og's sake.
Second - any developer is (rightly) wary of any toxic chemical clean-ups that may be required (the quarry is an old industrial estate after all) and are discussing who pays for potential liabilities etc.
A couple of years ago, the formal statement of a Go-Ahead was announced - in that time exactly one-fifth of bugger-all has been done.
However - despite all the rhetoric and Artists Impressions, no progress has been made (the ownership of the quarry has been passed around for the last few years), for a couple of reasons.
First - Vic Historical Heritage has decided that the Quarry (which is only a small part of the overall site) is 'Heritage Listed' and so we have to have 'Preservation' etc - it's just a big hole in the ground, for Og's sake.
Second - any developer is (rightly) wary of any toxic chemical clean-ups that may be required (the quarry is an old industrial estate after all) and are discussing who pays for potential liabilities etc.
A couple of years ago, the formal statement of a Go-Ahead was announced - in that time exactly one-fifth of bugger-all has been done.
RedmanWasHere
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It's not ending any time soon for both.
Ringwood East is to get its turn in the spotlight.
Likewise Bedford Rd.
Croydon Station later on.
HaroLad
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Why don’t they just do it all at once
And Boronia is getting rebuilt... And Ferntree Gully will probably be added to the list one day too...
We've still had an easier time of it than the Dandenong line folks.
Something about track curvature along the platforms no longer meeting design standards IIRC.
But moving along to the straight section, there's only room for one station anyway. It's going to suck for the businesses now further away from a station precinct.
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Just looked it up on Google maps, they're about 800m apart, may as well turn it into one big station.
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Baysie, so close enough.
The station definitely needs a lick of paint, but the pricetag for what's been proposed seems excessive.
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Only thing Boronia needs to change is its prevalance of dero's.
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I used to live in Boronia. It cops a lot of flack and isn’t that bad. Like any suburb, a few dero’s but overall I had a great time. Boronia station isn’t great but certainly not the worst on the Melb train system.
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Werribee Station is a scary enough place in daylight, no way would I ever go there at night.
