Re: Fw: Wed.12.9.18 daily digest.
  Mal Rowe

Sorry Rod -

Google thought one of your posts was spam and I mistakenly agreed, so it was rejected.

Must have been the multiple postings of muffins and doughnuts!!


Mal Rowe - occasionally dyslexic moderator

On 15/09/2018 19:26, Roderick Smithrodsmith@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
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> I thought that I hadn't been receiving daily digests.  Then my post this morning bounced.  Has TDU switched allegiance back to yahoo?

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> 180908Sa Melbourne 'Herald Sun' - politically-correct Thomas. with tdu.

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> 180910M Melbourne 'Age' - route 96 accessible stops.

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> 180912W Melbourne 'Herald Sun':

> - letters (road & rail).

> - Royal Melbourne Show (transport, horse, wines).

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> 180912W Melbourne 'Age' - Melbourne Express, Nicholson St.

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> 180912W Metro Twitter:

> - X2.676 at Melbourne Spencer St (Melbourne Tram Museum).

> - Frankston delay.

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> Roderick.

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> Wed.12.9.18 Metro Twitter.

> 5.20 Parliament: No lift access until further notice (urgent works).  Passengers requiring lift access are advised to travel to Melbourne Central or Flinders St during this time.  [This is despite a major shutdown for an 'upgrade', and

> further shutdowns for 'urgent maintenance'].

> - 13.29 Lift access has been restored.

> - What's wrong with the lifts that they're always out of order there?

> 10.34 Mernda line: Minor delays (a motor vehicle damaging level-crossing equipment at Arthurton Road, Northcote).

> - 12.18 clearing.

> 14.19 Cranbourne/Pakenham Lines: Minor delays (a delayed VLine train at Pakenham).

> 15.43 Frankston line: Minor delays (police near Highett).

> - 15.46 Not minor. The 15.42 went only to Mordialloc; the 15.52 was cancelled.  So now there are plenty of people waiting for the 16.02. Cancellation not on app..

> - 15.51 now major.

> - 15.57 All other lines still running to Caulfield without issue?

> - 16.08 The Pakenham and Cranbourne lines are still running to time, except for two services about 5 minutes late.

> - 16.14 major delays continuing.

> - 16.14 We are stuck outside Highett for 30+ min.

> - 16.18 Major traffic delays (booms down).

> - 16.21 still major.

> - 16.21 Is the line suspended? Or moving but slower than normal?

> - 16.22 Has the issue been sorted?

> - 16.23 It was suspended for 30+ min. Trains seem to have started moving. I just got on one.

> - 16.23 We have just received permission from police to move trains, but with major delays.

> - 16.25 So how are you okay running trains to Cheltenham but cancelling Carrum services.  They all go through Highett.  Consider running a Cheltenham service through to Mordialloc.

> - 16.28 If I get on a Frankston train now from Caulfield, how long will it be delayed to get to Parkdale?

> - 16.28 This guy deserves a pay rise or a bonus. People of Melbourne, you need to relax. Having a go at this guy isn’t going to get you home any quicker!

> - 16.29 And how do you stop an all stations at the station where the incident happened but not run two express trains that would pass straight through.  Sounds like [nonsense].

> - 16.39 Be nice if the train driver could say something. Packed train struck at Patterson.

> - 16.41 Major delays (an unruly passenger and an earlier police action).

> - 16.42 The passenger has left the train.

> - 16.44 We have an unruly passenger aboard that train. Police are attending.

> - 16.44 I just saw the 16.28 guy too and I agree! He was doing a fabulous job!

> - 16.48 Can someone please tell us what's going on?

> - 16.53 I’m grateful to be on the train now too!

> - 16.59 Can someone please tell us what's going on?

> - 17.01 We all got sent to platform 3 at Patterson, and now the platform 2 train has left with passengers on it, what's happening?

> 17.45 All routes: Minor delays after an earlier trespasser between Melbourne Southern Cross and Flinders Street.

> 21.10 Frankston line: Minor Delays (police attending to trespassers at Glen Huntly).

> - 21.22 clearing.

> - So this evening, there was an unruly passenger at Highett, a trespasser between Southern Cross and Flinders St, and a trespasser at Glen Huntly? Sounds full on.

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> On Sun.9.9, we waved goodbye to the boom gates at Seaford Rd, Seaford.  Work is continuing until late September to complete a road underpass.

> https://levelcrossings.vic.gov.au/media/news/seaford-road-boom-gates-gone-for-good

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> Melbourne tram X2.676 in front of Spencer St station in 1978.  676 is chocolate & cream now, and lives at Melbourne Tram Museum.

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> Melbourne Express, Wednesday, September 12, 2018

> 9.06 There are currently delays for route 72 trams towards Melbourne University (a collision in Commercial Road).  Passengers for the city have been told to consider Gardiner, Toorak, Hawksburn or Prahran trains. Buses are also delayed (earlier incidents in East Ivanhoe).

> Nicholson Street is still closed between Victoria and Alexandra parades until Saturday.  Here's how it looked at the start of the week..

> There's no lift access today at Parliament station. Go to Melbourne Central or Flinders Street instead.

> Real-life residents in new Collingwood mural..  A new mural has brightened the side of  50-metre-high public housing tower in Collingwood. Reporter Carolyn Webb says street artist Adnate and his assistants took three weeks to spray the super-sized images. The faces of two more people will be added next week. Have a stroll and check out the progress.

> 6.00 All smooth so far on the roads and trains.

> <www.theage.com.au/melbourne-news/melbourne-express-wednesday-september-12-2018-20180912-p50365.html>

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> Greens councillors favour cyclists over accessible tram 'super stops' in Melbourne's north. 10 September 2018. 77 comments.

> Greens councillors have thwarted plans to build more accessible tram stops in Melbourne's inner-north in their push for a dedicated cycling lane.

> Six accessible "super" tram stops along Nicholson Street in Fitzroy and Brunswick East were approved by the Andrews government earlier this year as part of a $19 million upgrade.

> But three of the stops in Brunswick East were opposed by Moreland Council in August, delivering a blow to commuters using wheelchairs or pushing prams..

> Greens councillor Dale Martin moved to halt the upgrade of stops near the intersections of Miller, Glenlyon and Kirkdale streets because they did not include space for a dedicated cycling lane.

> Councillors argued the safety of the ''huge volume of cyclists'' in the municipality was a priority. Photo: Joe Armao.

> The resolution was seconded by Greens councillor Jess Dorney and received majority support.

> "We must do everything we can to protect the safety of the huge volume of cyclists that we have in our city," Cr Martin told the council, which must approve the stops due to the proposed removal of parking.

> This would have forced Public Transport Victoria to redesign the stops and submit them to the council again, but the government agency is instead applying to appeal the decision at VCAT.

> Brian Caccianiga (black hat) and fellow disability advocates blocked trams on Sydney Road in Brunswick earlier this year. Photo: Jason South.

> Commuters are currently facing lengthy delays as work gets under way to build three super stops in along Nicholson Street in Fitzroy.

> The road is closed between Victoria Parade and Alexandra Parade for two weeks, with buses replacing sections of the 96 and 86 tram routes.

> All six stops were supposed to be built at the same time to reduce commuter pain, but the road is likely to close yet again in a few months' time, when the remaining tram stop upgrades are eventually approved.

> This means that people with impaired mobility will have to wait even longer to use the tram network, said wheelchair user and disability advocate Brian Caccianiga.

> "It’s already been a long wait and is now turning into a longer wait over an issue that could have been discussed, not blocked," Mr Caccianiga said.

> "I think there could have been a better solution to that scenario rather than say 'no'."

> By law, 90 per cent of Melbourne’s tram stops were supposed to be wheelchair accessible by the end of 2017.

> But only one quarter of Melbourne's 1700 tram stops meet the target.

> While successive governments have been slow to commit funding the new stops, local disputes over the loss of parking and provision for cycling space has slowed down their delivery.

> Such was the fate of a government-approved accessible tram terminus on Melville Road, Pascoe Vale South.

> Locals were concerned about a proposed redesign of the terminus due to a loss of parking, and a plan to shorten the line by moving the stop further south on Melville Road.

> The terminus was unanimously blocked by council at the same August meeting, due to a lack of cycling space, poor connectivity with nearby buses, and fears that its location would prevent the tram line from extending north.

> Public Transport Victoria is appealing this decision at VCAT too.

> Chief executive Jeroen Weimar said the process would cause delays in building the new stops.

> "Disappointingly, the local council decided not to grant planning permission for the stops in the Moreland area," he said.

> “Route 96 is Melbourne’s busiest tram route, and these latest upgrades will make it safer and more accessible for thousands of passengers every day.”

> Related Article Trapped on a 96 tram: No accessible stops added an hour to James' journey

> <www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/greens-councillors-favour-cyclists-over-accessible-tram-super-stops-in-melbourne-s-north-20180907-p502dd.html>

> * Moreland council should have a look at the Balaclava Station super stop. The front one metre of the raised platform is a raised bike lane with ramps on and off at each end. As a cyclist it seems to work and commuters tend to respect the delineation once they get used to it. It allows for disabled access and still retains the bike lane away from the traffic

> * I said in an earlier comment that you did not publish and I say again, it's not about Greens councilors, its a decision made by Moreland Council. Why the anti Greens bias?

> * Typical selfish cyclist types, its all about them.

> * Superstops are a waste of money and their design isn't intuitive and don't work. pedestrians don't know how to use them, (think tourists on Swanston street) cyclists don't know how to use them and cars also struggle causing confusion and potential accidents as well as clogging up the roads during peak hour. Whats the point of a wheel chair person getting on a tram at a super stop and getting to their destination which isn't a super stop? what then, they have to keep circling on the network until they find another super stop to get off? how about buses and their integration? Its flawed and it would need a complete redesign of the entire public transport system. Trains seem to work for the wheelchairs so concentrate on that, alternatively with the money saved by not putting in SS you could give every disabled person a voucher for a disability taxi (or equivalent) so they get to their destination without hassles and

> dramas. or provide mobility scooters for free so they can drive along the footpath to their destinations and for further destinations use the trains. I've seen SS and do not believe the positives out weight the negatives.

> * Have a look at what the Moreland Council and members of the community actually say by viewing the recording of the August Council meeting:

> www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEatfgFTdWs&list=PLQbf6iHvxeGM9i6Xn6fBSYTfBeGxoxbV3&index=1

> Moreland Council is not thwarting, blocking and delivering blows to accessibility. The Council is not favouring cyclists over accessible superstops. Try searching for opposition to accessible superstops in the clip - it's not there.

> As should be clear in the recording of the meeting, the Council and the members of the community who speak, speak for genuinely accessible, functional, integrated, fair and future-focussed public transport. That's not what the models

> put to Council would have led to.

> It's sad to see now that instead of seeking to improve the superstop designs by working with the Council and communities, PTV instead prefer the approach of rushing off to VCAT to see Council's positions overruled and their flawed

> models installed.

> * "By law, 90 per cent of Melbourne’s tram stops were supposed to be wheelchair accessible by the end of 2017"

> So laws appeared to have been broken, who gets charged with breaking these laws? Who will be fined or go to jail for breaking these laws? I'm guessing nobody, meaning these laws aren't worth the paper they are written on.

> * Typical of the Greens really. Form ahead function. So a special needs person or elderly or infirm will need to ride a bike to get around town. The benefit of trams is it takes cars off the road. Now these people have to get taxi or

> ride share to get around. Hmmm...not very Green.

> * It is unusual for the inner north councils to put the needs of road users ahead of anyone else.

> * Interesting perception of disabled by some commentators. Disabled people don't only use wheelchairs. There are many aged people who find getting on and off trams very difficult. I love living in Melbourne and envy cyclists and

> certainly want to see them safe, but I also want to be able to get on and off trams without thinking I could fall.

> * Unless there are two designs in play here, it is interesting that one council has approved the design (City of Melb) whilst the other has not (Moreland). The road is only so wide - so it may well be that you simply cannot properly

> cater for both groups. I am sure cyclists could accept a little bit of inconvenience if they had to get off their bikes and walk them through versus the huge inconvenience of a whole section of our community that cannot use the tram

> system.

> * Superstops are not only about people with disabilities, they are for parents with prams, people who may be using crutches, someone who's had a hip replacement and many others. The planning that needs to go into a superstop is enormous and takes into account space, traffic road rules, power for the trams, pedestrian movement, traffic movement, and not to mention the whims of the local council. There are experts spending weeks and months planning these stops, and to have the Greens effectively prevent the above user groups from using public transport that everyone else has access to is absolutely appalling. Cyclists have the privilege of being able to get on a bike and ride. Not everyone else does.

> * This is the Greens can never be taken seriously. Designing a transport system for a city of 5.0m around bicycles Really!

> * Might've been smarter to have allocated cyclists a route not along a tram line.

> * Easy to get riled up about this piece. Who wouldn't get riled up if it was simply the case that the Greens "favour cyclists over accessible stops"? But this isn't the case. Moreland Council is not "thwarting" accessible stops thereby

> "delivering a blow to commuters using wheelchairs or pushing prams". Nor was the Council opposed to PTV's plan for the 58 terminus because locals were apparently "concerned about parking". Videos of Moreland Council meetings are online

> on YouTube. You can see in the videos what the Council and members of the community actually say.  Communities in Moreland and the Council have argued hard for genuinely accessible, integrated, safe, future-focussed and fair public transport infrastructure.  The models for the stops that had been presented to Council may have served the needs of our semi-privatised public transport providers. But they were poor models for communities and accessibility. The Council is right to argue for better infrastructure.

> * These tram upgrades never go smoothly and never meet the wants of all concerned groups.  Unfortunately, the Greens should have been central to the discussion from the early planning stage with YarraTrams, VicRoads, and Moreland council, but in typical form they jump into issues at the final hour, when everything has been  signed off, delaying or ending progress.

> The article doesn't offer any insight into the alternatives, but surely priotizing Nicholson street for trams and prioritizing Lygon/Barrow sts for bicycle traffic -- multimodal transport never works well on busy narrow streets.

> * This stems from the stupid idea of putting the tracks in the middle of the road. Put them next to each foothpath and you don't need a "superstop", just footpath at the same level as the tram....

> * Surely some compromise can be reached. Have any studies been done on the number of cyclists actually using the tram routes? There are other roads that cyclists can use whereas people needing accessible trams don’t have any options.  The latter group have a right to accessible transport.

> * Typical Greens. No feedback during the planning and consultation phase of the project. But happy to pop up and block the project at the last minute.

> If they really cared about the outcome of the project why not get involved from the beginning. it's either incompetence or grandstanding - you choose...

> * Perhaps people should read the article and ignore the headline. The proposal is a bad design that ignores the needs of one group, reasonably blocked when good designs can meet the needs of both groups. This is exactly why we need Greens and independents at all levels of government. PTV should just do the work properly.

> * No. Greens are typically filled with enthusiastic people with minimal real life experiences or training in the areas they are making lasting impacts on.. like every other political party.

> * All coal power stations to finish in 2020. Remember that doosie from Bob Brown?

> * If they copy the design of the stuporstops on Bridge Road or Victoria St Richmond, or Swanston St, they'll be guaranteed to convert more cyclists into disabled people.

> Hopefully there will be some visible (at night time!) delineation between the raised section and the rest of the road and no illegally parked garbage trucks permanently blocking the cyclists' path, causing them to have to negotiate down to the poorly lit lower section. Seems retrograde to cause inconvenience and danger to thousands of cyclists for the sake of a handful of people in wheelchairs. Unless you're trying to bolster the number of people who have to use wheelchairs to get around.

> * Motorists think the same about cyclists. 2% of commutes are by bike and, in trying to double this to 4%, some councils are halving the roads throughput of the 70% of commutes by car.

> * Agree I await a major traffic incident around those things They are perilous

> * For the knee-jerkers who have commented here, please recognise that this is not simply about choosing between cyclists and disabled people and who is more valuable as a person. The tension is between the accessibility of a certain number of tram stops for disabled people and the safety of cyclists which might be jeopardised by far narrower road spaces.  Cyclists are injured and killed at fairly alarming rates in Melbourne.

> It seems fair to me to value one group's physical safety over another person's ability to get on a tram at a particular location. Unless there is some overriding evidence here that the safety - rather than just the convenience - of

> disabled people at non-super tram stops is equally a problem.

> * Not the point - one issue is about infrastructure, the other is about behavior.

> * Could you explain what you mean? Is what cyclist's do a matter of 'behaviour' and not 'infrastructure'?

> Also, even if we were talking about 'infrastructure' and 'behaviour' (whatever you mean by this distinction), why does that kill of the need to balance competing interests?

> * Cycling is a choice. Disability is not. I would rather hinder cyclists who have other modes of travel to choose from (including public transport) than hinder the ability of a disabled person from being able to do simple things like

> commuting to work, shopping, medical appointments, picking children up from school, etc. Isn't a disabled person's life hard enough without able bodied cyclist campaigning against infrastructure that will make a disabled person's life a little easier. Your CHOICE to cycle should not trump the needs of the disabled who do not have a choice.

> * Greens Councillor Dale Martin work doesn't seem to be aware that cyclists don't generally use Nicholson St, and utilise the safer dedicated bike lanes down John & Canning Sts to get to the city. Perhaps the Councillor should focus his attention to the overdevelopment of Nicholson & Lygon streets to alleviate congestion on both roads and the public transport system.

> * Why are the Moreland greens being blamed for legitimately pointing out the glaringly inadequate design for the super-stops that substitute cyclist safety for passenger safety and accessibility?

> With the cultural focus on getting projects done, it does suck when someone points out a roadblock in your plan and its common to blame the messenger, but the fault here lies with everyone who got it to this point overlooking this major infrastructure consideration..

> * Typical of the Greens - OUT OF TOUCH with reality. If you want to be efficient and safe for disabled people, then try what works so well in Europe and run the trams down the edge of the road adjacent to the curb. Bikes should have to observe the road rules as much as any other vehicle and learn to be equally respectful of other roads users, as much as they have to be respectful of cyclists. Running trams down adjacent to the curb would be much safer for all tram users, stop cars from clogging the roads, but allow vehicles to move freely down the middle of the roads. It works very well in Europe, why can't it work here?

> * Greens have never liked anything with more than two wheels.

> * Gotta love the mental gymnastics for this one.

> * I'm not sure if Nicholson street is the preferred cycling route for the vast majority of cyclists out there. Too busy.

> * Yes, cyclists, find a side street. Easy.

> * Outside of peak hour, it's by far the best road in the north to use. Sydney Road is a joke best dealt with by riding wide out into the lane. The Upfield bike path is a dangerous joke best left to those riders plodding along at 5km/h.

> * The best road to use? I must admit that I've always thought that people who ride the section of Nicholson between Johnston & Brunswick Roads have a deathwish when Canning St. is so close by. But I concede it's not AS bad out of peak

> hour. In peak I would never contemplate it.

> * Agreed, I stick to Canning St - much safer.

> * What would be better would be to have the tram line move into the kerb and have a raised area of footpath and then traffic can keep flowing going past the outside of the tram.

> * How about we see the details of why Public Transport Victoria can't/won't resdesign the 'super stops' to accommodate concerns for cyclists?

> * Super stops turned Elizabeth Street into a dangerous and cramped thoroughfare, and little did Melbourne city council care. They can and should be designed to cater for cyclists. Good on Moreland for taking a stand on this issue.

> * Why wouldn't they build stops like those in Bridge Rd, they allow both cars and an elevated access to trams?

> * skytrams or underground. long term plan should be to grade separate from cars, cyclists and pedestrians, so trams become our inner city light rail metro system.

> * So it's about being "inclusive" - provided you ride a bicycle.

> * Given the high level of cycle usage throughout the inner suburbs how is this even an argument? An integrated approach to planning for road usage is long overdue. It is not that hard to respond to the needs of the community’s most

> vulnerable commuters, including elderly, disabled, children and cyclists. Thumbs up Moreland!

> * Super stops are bad idea. They have reduced 4 lane suburban roads to 2 lanes. The old stops were highly space efficient and could have been made safer with simple upgrades. On top of choking off busy streets at a time when traffic is

> getting worse, the massive costs involved in building these failures has meant that money cannot be spent on the vital upgrades to the tram network. I also think that choking off busy streets even more by building cycling lanes is

> idiotic. Where there is space to do so it is fine, where there is no space, road sharing is the way to go. Seriously, this and the crazy reductions in speed limits proposed by Yarra and Stonington are the height of deluded green

> minority destroying people's amenity.

> * which 'simple upgrade' would allow a wheelchair to get onto a tram ?

> * You should ride 58km to work (one way).

> * As a parent with a teenager who would benefit considerably with more accessible tram stops, I'm appalled that the Greens would want to block this important initiative! Now that this has been made public, I hope ratepayers will let

> them know how discriminatory this move actually is!

> * They didn't block the idea, just the design as proposed.

> * Disappointingly, the design of super stops seem to require much wider platforms than is required. The result is that more road space is taken up by the super stops, leaving much less space for cyclists (with resulting decline in

> safety). Full marks to Moreland council for standing up for cyclists. Please PTV, design more space efficient super stops that will allow safe space for cyclists.

> * they are designed for wheelchairs. They are exactly as wide as required..

> * Wider than required according to who? The width of the platforms is determined by DDA legislation which requires the platforms to accommodate wheelchair movements. It also allows for people pushing prams or carrying trolleys.

> * "We must do everything we can to protect the safety of the huge volume of cyclists that we have in our city," Cr Martin told the council" Obviously to the hipster Greens that protection doesn't include pedestrians or the disabled.

> Note to Greens; cyclists like cars have to follow road rules. And that means giving way to pedestrians approaching an oncoming tram just like cars have to stop.

> * I thought the Greens would be into diversity. It's written all over their 'social justice' statements. But as I suspected, all those motherhood statements were always a way of getting a few disaffected Labour voters.

> Able-bodied only on our roads, it seems.

> * Not true. It's just simple economics. There are many, many more able-bodied cyclists using the roads than there are disabled people using trams. The Greens are simply concerned that the proposed rebuild meets maximum cost efficiency

> for the benefit of the greatest number of commuters. Greens are forever ridiculed for their supposedly "looney" ideas catering to "hipsters" but when they follow normal "common sense" logic they still get criticised relentlessly. You

> just can't win.

> * It's more than economics. A person in a wheelchair is not there by choice. A cyclist has options.

> * So the Greens are out and out utilitarians, not interested in a diverse society. Interesting argument. Sounds like a one party state idea to me. No thanks.

> * The tram terminus on Melville Road, Pascoe Vale South shows the shortsightedness of this proposal. Instead of extending the 58 tram north to Boundary Rd Hadfield and placing the super stop north of Bell st the Government plans to block the Melville Rd / Bell St intersection and cause traffic chaos. No wonder the invisible local member Lizzie Blandthorn faces the prospect of being the first Labor member in history to lose the inner suburban of Pascoe Vale.

> * Typical of Moreland Council. The Greens talk a lot about improving public transport but when an initiative to improve accessibility and make tram stops safer for all comes along... they forget that trams will take more cars off the

> road which is what I thought their manifesto was all about.

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> It's not too late to act on climate change 11 September 2018.

> <www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/it-s-not-too-late-to-act-on-climate-change-20180911-p50318.html>

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> Canavan warns industry gas export trigger on the table 12 September 2018.

> <www.theage.com.au/business/the-economy/canavan-warns-industry-gas-export-trigger-on-the-table-20180912-p503bm.html>

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> Andrews Government calling for registrations of interest to help build airport rail link

> Herald Sun September 12, 2018.

> video: How the Airport Rail Link will work.

> VICTORIAN Premier Daniel Andrews still has not spoken to new Prime Minister Scott Morrison, almost three weeks since he claimed the top job.

> Mr Andrews has written to Mr Morrison about the infrastructure projects being backed by both governments, including Melbourne’s airport rail link, and said it remained a “real partnership” despite the downfall of Malcolm Turnbull..

> Victorian Public Transport Minister Jacinta Allan said she met last week with her new federal counterpart, Urban Infrastructure Minister Alan Tudge, and both sides “share a desire to get on and deliver” the train to Tullamarine.

> The state government is now calling for construction companies, designers, engineers, developers and investors from Australia and overseas to register their interest to help build the airport rail link.

> Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and Public Transport Minister Jacinta Allan. Picture: Julian Smith (AAP).

> A full business case is currently being developed and construction is due to start in 2022.

> While the federal government is pledging $5 billion to help Victoria build the project, federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is yet to make a formal commitment to match the money, although he has been a supporter of airport rail.

> Mr Andrews said the federal money was “in the actual budget” already and he was sure the project “will have support across the aisle”.

> Mr Andrews and Mr Turnbull, prior to losing the leadership to Mr Morrison, had negotiated closely on the airport rail link and determined the route via Sunshine was the preferred option.

> TURNBULL DELIVERS $5 BILLION FOR AIRPORT RAIL.

> SUNSHINE ROUTE BEST AS ANDREWS BACKS TULLA TRAIN.

> REGIONAL CENTRES WIN IN AIRPORT RAIL PLAN.

> <www.heraldsun.com.au/news/andrews-government-calling-for-registrations-of-interest-to-help-build-airport-rail-link/news-story/c46220c839ec999576c5009039601543>

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