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No photos until further notice.
Roderick.
Thurs.3.1.18 Metro Twitter.
Buses are replacing trains from Flinders St (Federation Square, Arts Centre, Parliament) to Westall and Moorabbin until the last train of Sun.13.1 and to Elsternwick until 4.00 Sun.6.1; also Frankston - Stony Point until the last train of Sun.13.1.
- Get some bloody buses that will take pushbikes strapped to a bike rack! Its infuriating!
- I’ve had 30 mins each way added to my commute, but still have to pay the same amount as the bus drops us at Burnley, then have to get train to the city - why?
- Aren’t buses replacing trains between Frankston and Caulfield?
- No, just Flinders St - Moorabbin.
- Why aren’t there any Xtrapolis trains between Moorabbin and Frankston?
- While they do run on the Frankston line, their maintenance isn't carried out at locations on that side of town, so they're not currently being used between Moorabbin and Frankston. [That frees them to enhance Glen Waverley]..
- It says on your planned works page that buses are replacing trains on the whole line.
- Buses are replacing trains Flinders St - Moorabbin and Frankston - Stony Point until Sunday 13 January.
- Are speed restrictions being put in place tomorrow?
- We'll be monitoring rail temperatures at various locations around Melbourne throughout the day and will manage speed restrictions line by line when necessary.
- While the works are happening.
- Nice deluxe bus from Arts Centre to Moorabbin, very comfortable.
Belgrave/Lilydale/Glen Waverley lines:  Trains will run to an altered weekday timetable until last train of Thurs 3 Jan while 'upgrades' take place.
- 17.17 there is nothing about Belgrave trains and nothing appearing for next half hour on boards at Parliament? When is the next train?
- The next outbound Belgrave via the loop is departing from Flinders St at 17.26; it should be at Parliament at 17.35.
8.53 Upfield Line: Major Delays - due to a police request.
- 9.12 Buses to replace trains Coburg - Upfield (police).  Buses have been ordered, but may take over 20 minutes arrive, consider alternative transport.
- 9.27 tram route 19 and bus route 527 (for travel between Coburg & Upfield).
- 9.38 trains have resumed.
10.45 Can you update the Sunbury line timetable online? I can’t access the weekend timetable. It has onnly Monday to Friday and New Year’s Day.
- 11.01 We just checked; something is not quite right.  We picked the 4th to 6th, and it showed as you mentioned, we did click "Go" and then we could pick the Saturday timetable.  See if it works for you, and we will let PTV know of the issue.
17.27 Minor delays (a track fault near Mernda).  Trains may be held.  [Everything new, and frequent failures.  That offers no hope for the overhyped Swanston St tunnel].
- 17.37 With increased fares come increased delays.
- 17.50 Delays now major.   Passengers for Middle Gorge, Hawkstowe & Mernda should use the local bus route 382 to/from South Morang station.
- 18.47 Resumed - just left Middle Gorge.
- 18.49 Now minor and clearing.
- 18.52 Delays happen so often on this line that you should just tell us when it’s running a good service.
18.35 Hurstbridge line: Minor delays (an equipment fault near Watsonia).
19.50 Because of a lorry hitting a railway bridge between Ipswich and Cambridge (UK), near Needham Market, some lines will be blocked. Trains running through these stations may be cancelled or delayed by up to 30 minutes. Disruption is  expected until further notice.

Fremantle train jumper Raoul White arrested in US for train graffiti.
PerthNow January 3, 2019.
A man jumped off the roof of moving train on the North Fremantle rail bridge into the Swan River.Picture: Facebook / Brown Cardigan.
The man filmed last year making the idiotic leap into the Swan River from the roof of a speeding train has been arrested in the US, accused of spraying graffiti across San Francisco rail cars.
Matthew Raoul White, 33, is known to law enforcement in Australia and overseas as a prolific graffiti tagger, part of the notorious Get Hectik crew who flaunt their law breaking online.
Police arrested Matthew Raoul White, 33, at San Francisco International Airport as he was awaiting a connecting flight to Sydney, prosecutors said.Picture: BART PD
It can be revealed that White was also the fool filmed in April making the potentially deadly jump from the roof of the train crossing the Fremantle rail bridge, narrowly missing a concrete pylon and live overhead wires carrying 25,000 volts of electricity.
He was never captured for the crime, despite WA Police issuing CCTV vision to the public and appealing for information.
But on New Year’s Eve, White was arrested at San Francisco airport trying to board a flight to Sydney.
He is suspected of spray painting Bay Area Rapid Transit trains with the moniker “Bamp Floss” and “GH” — short for Get Hectik.
The tags were shown to police internationally and were confirmed to be the same as those in Australia.
The fact White allegedly had spray paint on his clothes and shoes when he was arrested was also a clue.
“He’s a prolific tagger,” BART’s deputy police chief Ed Alvarez said.
“He is well known in Australia — when he was leaving their country the contacts were made to us out here in the United States.”
A man jumped off the roof of a moving train on Fremantle bridge into river.Picture: Facebook / Brown Cardigan
The video of the Fremantle train jump stunt prompted condemnation from authorities.
Premier Mark McGowan labelled the man “a complete, utter, bloody idiot”. Police Minister Michelle Roberts said it was “extremely, extremely dangerous behaviour”.
Courts in Victoria and Queensland have previously labelled White a public nuisance — while WA has prosecuted him on a string of criminal damage and trespass charges.
Between July 2011 and January 2012, White sprayed Transperth trains in Claremont, Kingsley, Perth, West Leederville and Nowergup, causing thousands of dollars of damage.
He was ordered to pay more than $10,000 in fines and compensation.
But an application for a prohibitive behaviour order, which could have banned him from going within 100m of public transport, had to be withdrawn.
Taggers tagging US trains.Picture: Seven News/BART PD
In 2016, White was arrested in New York after he and two other taggers jumped a fence to get into the Bronx train depot, before lying in wait in the bushes in a bid to vandalise a train.
The trio were reportedly on a so-called “spraycation” from Australia at the time.
He is facing two felony counts of vandalism in California.
“They found it was connected to an Australian gang that likes to go worldwide,” San Mateo District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said. Californian authorities are investigating other graffiti incidents, with White being held in jail on $574,140 bail.
His next scheduled court date is January 14.
WA Police confirmed yesterday that the man wanted for the Fremantle train jump was aged 33, with the initials MRW.
<www.perthnow.com.au/news/perth/fremantle-train-jumper-raoul-white-arrested-in-us-for-train-graffiti-ng-b881064631z>

Service changes apply on Route 75 trams from Thursday 3 January until Saturday 12 January due to tram improvement works in Toorak Road.
- Even for able-bodied, in mid summer 40C+ this could be tough.
"Stop 55 Through Rd. Use trams to City from Stop 50 Fordham Gardens (1.3km/16 min walk), replacement buses to Vermont South from Stop 60 Roslyn St (1.4km/18 min walk) or trains from Burwood Station (850m/10 min walk)"
PT in Melbourne demonstrates tokenistic behaviour by the State government. Trains are OK most of the time, trams are packed to “I’ll have to wait” at peaks, and bus frequencies at 50 minutes are as insulting as the distant official PTV Bus stop location at Melbourne Airport.
Toorak Road renewal works
First tram Thursday 3 January to 5.00am Saturday 12 January 2019
We’re renewing tram tracks and overhead wires in Toorak Road between Warrigal Road and Camberwell Road.
Service changes
Route 75 trams run as Route 75a, with buses replacing trams between Stop 48 Orrong Crescent and Vermont South, diverting around the work zone.
Stops not serviced by replacement buses
Thursday 3 January to Saturday 5 January
Stop 56 Barkly St. Use Stop 60 Roslyn St (1.1km/15 min walk)
Stop 57 Fairview Ave. Use Stop 60 Roslyn St (800m/11 min walk)
Stop 58 Warrigal Rd (to City). Use Stop 59 Somers St (270m/3 min walk)
Stop 58 Warrigal Rd (to Vermont South). Use Stop 60 Roslyn St (600m/7 min walk)
Stop 59 Somers St (to Vermont South). Use Stop 60 Roslyn St (270m/3 min walk)
Thursday 3 January to Saturday 12 January
Stop 51 Toorak Rd. Use trams to City or replacement buses to Vermont South from Stop 50 Fordham Gardens (290m/3 min walk), or trains from Hartwell Station (550m/7 min walk)
Stop 52 Summerhill Rd. Use trams to City or replacement buses to Vermont South from Stop 50 Fordham Gardens (450m/4 min walk) or trains from Burwood Station (450m/5 min walk)
Stop 53 Highfield Rd. Use trams to City or replacement buses to Vermont South from Stop 50 Fordham Gardens (900m/10 min walk) or trains from Burwood Station (450m/5 min walk)
Stop 54 Oberwyl Rd. Use trams to City or buses to Vermont South from Stop 50 Fordham Gardens (1.1km/13 min walk) or trains from Burwood Station (600m/7 min walk)
Stop 55 Through Rd. Use trams to City from Stop 50 Fordham Gardens (1.3km/16 min walk), replacement buses to Vermont South from Stop 60 Roslyn St (1.4km/18 min walk) or trains from Burwood Station (850m/10 min walk)
Sunday 6 January to Saturday 12 January
Stop 56 Barkly Street. Use trams to City from Stop 50 Fordham Gardens (1.6km/19 min walk), replacement buses to Vermont South from Stop 58 Warrigal Rd (800m/8 min walk) or trains from Burwood Station (1.1 km/13 min walk)
Stop 57 Fairview Avenue. Use tram to City or replacement buses from Stop 58 Warrigal Rd (350m/5 min walk) or trains from Burwood Station (1.3 km/15 min walk)
Alternative travel options
If possible, avoid the area and consider alternative travel options for the duration of the works.
Alamein line trains between the City and Burwood Station.
During works, trams and replacement buses will run to the normal frequency, however they may not arrive at the scheduled time due to traffic congestion. Plan ahead and allow extra time for your journey.
For train, tram and bus information or to provide feedback call 1800 800 007 6am- midnight (all night Friday and Saturday).
Pedestrian access around the work zone
Pedestrian access will be limited and will change throughout the works. Please refer to signage around the work zone area to find the nearest open crossing.
Stop 58 Warrigal Rd and Stop 59 Somers St (towards Vermont South) not serviced from Thursday 3 January until Saturday 5 January
Getting around the work zone
https://yarratrams.com.au/service-changes/route-75-toorak-road-renewal-works

Delays and City Loop bypasses worst on Cranbourne and Pakenham lines 3 January 2019.
Talking points:
•Metro Trains met its punctuality target only six times in the past 12 months.
•Yarra Trams met its punctuality target seven times in the past 12 months.
•Metro Trains was awarded $6 million in taxpayer-funded bonuses.
•Yarra Trams was awarded $1.26 million in bonuses.
Commuters on the busy Cranbourne and Pakenham lines are suffering the city’s worst train delays, as Metro Trains struggles to meet its beefed-up punctuality target.
Metro Trains has met its monthly punctuality target just six times in the past 12 months, yet the train operator has received $6 million in taxpayer-funded bonuses.
Metro Trains met its punctuality target only six times in the past 12 months.Credit:Simon Schluter
Similarly, Yarra Trams was awarded $1.26 million in bonuses, although it failed to meet its monthly on-time performance target five times.
The performance data was released a day before Melbourne hits 42-degree heat, with Public Transport Victoria chief executive Jeroen Weimar assuring commuters that services would not melt down.
Illustration: Matt Golding.
Both public transport operators won new seven-year contracts in November 2017 and signed up to higher performance targets and bigger fines for lateness and cancellations.
The renewed $7 billion contracts set out tough penalties for station skipping, bypassing the City Loop and short shunting – services terminating before their stated destination.
Metro's target for on-time monthly performance was lifted from 88 to 92 per cent.
But in the first year of the contract, Metro failed to meet the new target six times.
The busy Cranbourne and Pakenham lines have the highest proportion of delayed services and City Loop bypasses, PTV data shows.
Cranbourne trains also have the highest proportion of cancelled trains.
Yarra Trams has failed to meet its new 82 per cent punctuality target (up from 77 per cent) in five of the past 12 months.
The route 86 tram had the lowest punctuality in the 12 month period (75.1 per cent), while more than 6500 services were short shunted (7.5 per cent of all services).
Yet the operators have been given millions of dollars in bonuses – sums that far outweigh their penalties.
Metro Trains has been awarded $6 million in bonuses and paid $770,000 in penalties.
The operator had the potential to win up to $14 million in bonuses for exceeding performance targets.
Yarra Trams was awarded $1.26 million in bonuses (but had the potential to receive $5.5 million) and paid more than $300,000 in penalties.
Meanwhile, V/Line failed to meet its 92 per cent on-time target every month in the past year.
In May, its performance dropped to a low of 79 per cent.
But the government says train and tram performance has improved overall due to the tougher targets.
Train faults on the suburban network have dropped almost 20 per cent and infrastructure faults have been reduced by nearly 30 per cent, the government said.
Both Metro Trains and Yarra Trams have met their reliability target in 11 of the past 12 months.
Acting Premier Tim Pallas described the year as one of "massive improvement" and attributed improved train reliability to a 32 per cent increase in maintenance funding under the new contract.
He said customer satisfaction on the train network reached a 22-year high in the November 2018 quarter.
"We've spent a lot more time thinking about what the customers, passengers on the network want," Mr Pallas said.
"We're seeing some of the highest levels of approval on record for our train services in particular."
New customer satisfaction and mystery-shopper surveys showed a 15 per cent drop in complaints to Yarra Trams.
To determine the penalties or incentives, PTV performs a complex calculation that gives greater weighting to altered or cancelled services than to late running.
Train lines with the lowest proportion of City Loop bypasses were Hurstbridge, Upfield and Sunbury.
Tram routes 82, 78 and 1 had the lowest proportion of short-shunted services.
On preparations for the hot weather on Friday, Mr Weimar admitted that up to 60 tram services would be cancelled, but "a lot of work has been done by the operators to prepare for the hot weather".
Meltdowns that cause commuter delays for more than two hours attract penalties of up to $700,000.
Related Article Trains on some regional lines rarely on time, data shows
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* Of course Belgrave has the least cancellations when you don't have services to start with. Since when should Belgrave passengers get one third the service Ringwood gets during the day and half at night? Once you get to Ringwood during the day on a Lilydale or Ringwood train there is NOTHING. You may as well wait for a Belgrave train in the city. After 6 or 7 there is a commuter train waiting at Ringwood to take passengers from the Lilydale train to Belgrave once it reaches Ringwood. The same happens for Lilydale passengers on a Belgrave train. There is a commuter train waiting to take them to Lilydale. WHY can't this happen during the day? Why do Ringwood passengers and before get THREE TIMES the service of a Belgrave line passenger? Heathmont Baysawater, Boronia, Ferntree Gully, Upper Ferntree Gully, Upwey, Tecoma, Belgrave, You can't tell me that MORE passengers get off at Heatherdale or Nunawading than Boronia or Ferntree Gully so why do they get three times the service? Have a commuter train at Ringwood to meet the Lilydale train and Belgrave trains so that we get the SAME SERVICE THROUGHOUT THE DAY. Not hard.
* How much of the missed targets are due to line closures and difficulties, because of the level crossing removal project? None of that gets a mention in this article.
It must have a relevance.
* The public sector V/Line Bendigo Line hasn’t made targets in 6 years. They barely run a service over summer due to track work and heat restrictions.
* One word for public transport in Melbourne, one of the world least livable most livable big cities in the world: pathetic.
Yeah, its world class - world class worst for a big city.
But the tickets are cheap.
* How could anyone seriously expect the trams to run on-time with current Melbourne traffic situations? Every day I see dopey vehicle drivers having no spatial idea of where their vehicles are and so trams have to ding their bells, hopping that the bad drivers move out of the tram lines. I'd say I see it 20+ times a day in La Trobe Street. How many other areas? Traffic lights aren't designed for the trams. Pedestrians? Struth. Try Elizabeth and La Trobe Street intersection. Where are the Police issuing jay walking and failure to obey traffic lights?
* It’s cultural. We’ve always had a bad case of the “close enough good enoughs”. Major works almost always go overtime and over budget. And by very large margins. Trains and trams have long considered five minutes late as still on time.  People can’t be bothered doing things on time or don’t see it as an issue. The public grumble but ultimately put up with it for lack of any other options.
In Japan, my 8:13 train meant 8:13 on the dot. Every. Single. Time. On networks significantly larger than anything in sleepy old Melbourne.
Here 8:13 means 8:18 and a long unscheduled stop half way between stations followed by a tram running seven minutes late, and not so much as an acknowledgement that nothing is running on time.
* The basic timetable is inadequate even before the failures and delays.  30 min headways do not cut the mustard in today's world.
Arrogant Metro gets let off the hook by the useless PTV: bus replacements announced in advance don't count.  That is despite the guaranteed loss of 30-60 minutes, and the useless bleat 'no bikes, animals or surfboards'.  Replacement for the daily disasters is even worse:
'Buses have been called, but will take 60 min; consider local transport'.  Inadequate and infrequent buses.  Everything about Melbourne public transport is spin into outright lies, and not substance.

Disordered, unplanned: everyday terrorism is spreading like a virus 3 January 2019. 8 comments.
Contagion. That was my first thought when two disparate countries witnessed two apparent terrorist attacks in the earliest hours of 2019. In Japan as in Germany, a man drove a car into crowds of pedestrians in what has now become an achingly familiar scene. In both cases, only injuries were inflicted, although one victim’s injuries in Germany are life-threatening. But beyond these superficial similarities, the cases have just about nothing in common.
Illustration: Simon LetchCredit:
The Japanese driver was a 21-year-old, who said he “would not make any excuses” for his self-declared act of terror because it was “in retaliation for an execution”. Perhaps he’s referring to a particular execution, or perhaps this was his protest against capital punishment; at this stage we don’t know. Meanwhile, in Germany, police arrested a 50-year-old who officials said “had the clear intention to kill foreigners”, and had been making anti-foreigner comments during his arrest. He managed to hit some Syrian and Afghan citizens. We’re told he may have been treated for mental illness in the past.. There’s no common profile here. No similar age, no common ideological orientation. Even the mental illness component hasn’t yet been raised in the Japanese case. All that’s left is the method. Ramming pedestrians has now become its own thing, a phenomenon in its own right rather than the exclusive tool of anyone or anything. In short, it has become contagious.
Ever since Darren Osborne drove a van into the Finsbury Park mosque in London, the catalogue of perpetrators has become strikingly diverse.Credit:AP
Given the seminal examples of Nice and Berlin in 2016, we tend to regard this kind of attack as a signature of Islamic State. And it’s true that until 2017, this was overwhelmingly an Islamist style of attack, stretching from Barcelona to Stockholm, and incorporating a suite of attacks in France. But ever since Darren Osborne drove a van into the Finsbury Park mosque in London, the catalogue of perpetrators has become strikingly diverse.
The most recent time Germany saw this was back in April when a man killed four people and injured 20 after driving a van into a pedestrianised square in Münster, before shooting himself dead. This doesn’t seem to have been terrorism at all, with authorities suggesting it had to do with the driver’s own life rather than any political cause. That same month, a man rammed a van into pedestrians in a business district in Toronto, killing 10. We’ll see what his trial reveals, but he seems to have been connected to the “incel” movement, a misogynist online subculture of sexually inactive men who regard their “celibacy” as “involuntary”. America saw two similar attacks in 2017. One by an Islamist in New York another by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville, Virginia. And of course, there was James Gargasoulas’ murder of six pedestrians in Melbourne’s Bourke Street in 2017: another example with no identifiable political motive.
The aftermath of the attack in Toronto. Credit:AP
Of course, the history of terrorism is full of such contagion. If (as the history texts tend to hold) modern terrorism was invented by the Russian anarchists of the late-19th century, their methods were soon adopted by more nationalist Armenian, Macedonian, Serb and Bosnian groups active around the turn of the century. There was also a surging of political assassinations around this time from Japan to India, the US, Italy and Germany. In our times, we’ve seen the contagion of suicide bombing: a technique perfected by the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka before being adopted by Islamist groups.. Terrorist techniques often jump their ideological boundaries.
What’s different with these vehicle attacks is that the method of violence has become so simple and accessible that it’s not even contained by the borders of terrorism itself. Terrorism was always an attempt to democratise violence – to claim its use for people who are non-state actors – but such violence was still really only in the grasp of dedicated, organised militias. Not anyone can pull off a suicide bombing, and even a political assassination is difficult. But so chaotic and decentralised has terrorism now become, that its methods are simple variations on everyday activities, like driving. And with each attack the method is being advertised to anyone who might find it appealing.
When you lower the barriers to entry like this, you simultaneously lower the level of ideological determination and clarity required. That’s perhaps why we’re seeing such a common theme of mental illness in these cases. That’s atypical of terrorism more generally because the kind of planning and risk involved requires people who can act in a calculated, ordered way. But the new method is disordered, and requires little planning.
The car driven by James Gargasoulas after he hit and killed six pedestrians on Bourke Street.Credit:DPP
As a result, we’re seeing lines blurring what were once more-distinct. Terrorist and non-terrorist incidents are becoming indistinguishable by their appearance and even their effect. And any given act of violence can be heightened to terrorism by the utterance of a few words as a perpetrator is arrested. If authorities simply declined to pass on those words there would be no obvious political message communicated at all. It’s a far cry from the carefully conceived plot with an easily-discerned symbolic target and some accompanying manifesto shouting at the world. Once there was no mistaking the political seriousness of the terrorist group. Now you need a team of psychologists to figure out if it’s more a rhetorical costume.
This is not just an evolution in terrorism, it’s also an evolution beyond it. It’s as though the very concept of terrorism is breaking down, having been stretched to cover activity far more individual and impulsive than it was originally designed to capture. We don’t yet have a better word to describe all this, and it’s certainly true that many of these vehicle attacks still fit squarely within it. But increasingly there are cases where this taxonomy tells us almost nothing. One day we’ll probably have developed a new set of concepts to describe this phenomenon, and if we do, this moment will have been the turning point.
Related Article Why Scott Morrison is right on encryption but wrong on Muslims.
<www.watoday.com.au/national/disordered-unplanned-everyday-terrorism-is-spreading-like-a-virus-20190103-p50pdh.html>

Kleenheat regrets 'misleading' gas discount advertisements 3 January 2019.
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An 8m concrete barrier will be installed at Flinders St Station as works to help protect city from rogue car attacks intensify.
Herald Sun January 3, 2019.
An artist's impression of part of the security upgrade to Flinders Street Station. Picture: Supplied.
An 8m long concrete barrier will be installed outside Flinders Street Station as works to fortify the city against rogue vehicle attacks intensify.
One side of Princes Bridge will also close to pedestrians within weeks as the first of 88 permanent anti-terror blocks are installed along the iconic structure.
Authorities have pleaded for patience during the works, sparked in the wake of the deadly 2017 Bourke St rampage.
Installation of the reinforced barrier in front of Flinders Street Station will begin next Wednesday.
An artist's concept of new security measures on Princes Bridge. Picture: State Government.
It will comprise a concrete base with steel fencing on top — standing about 1m tall in all which is about the same as the average fence.
Designers assure it won’t obstruct views of the landmark station.
The forecourt under the clocks will be expanded to create 130 sqm of extra space and the area encircled with 20 steel bollards.
The pedestrian crossing to Young & Jackson will be widened by four metres — a metre more than initially flagged.
Lord Mayor Sally Capp told the Herald Sun: “These works will not only provide vital security measures but will improve access to one of the busiest pedestrian crossings in our city.’’
Works on Princes Bridge — to begin on January 14 — will replace temporary water-filled barriers with reinforced concrete blocks.
“As well as keeping people safe, a high priority for Princes Bridge is ensuring we maintain its significant heritage value,” Cr Capp said.
“These barriers have been designed in consultation with Heritage Victoria and heritage architects as well as Victoria Police and security experts.
“We’ve planned the next stages of works to help minimise disruption, and we want to thank Melburnians in advance for their patience while we undertake this work.”
Assistant commissioner Deb Abbott said the community could be assured Victoria Police was well equipped to respond should a serious incident occur in the city.
“The CBD is the safest it has ever been against hostile vehicles,’’ Ms Abbott said.
A section of Flinders St will close next week for works as part of the security upgrade.
Works outside Flinders Street Station will mostly occur between 8pm and 6am..
The pedestrian crossing will stay open except for the nights of January 9-10 and January 14-15 when the westbound traffic lane on Flinders St will also shut along with a northbound lane on St Kilda Rd.
Footpaths on Princes Bridge will be conversely shut — the west from later this month until March and the east between March and April.
The first stage of works around Flinders Street, comprising installation of permanent steel bollards near the police box, was completed last month.
Security upgrades at six other city sites will begin later this year.
Police and Emergency Services Minister Lisa Neville said it was part of a $50 million overhaul.
“These vital upgrades will help improve safety for the tens of thousands of people who visit our city every day,’’ Ms Neville said.
PLAN FOR NEW BOLLARDS AT KEY MELBOURNE SITES.
BOLLARD PLAN FOR FLINDERS ST.
BOLLARDS AND PLANTER BOXES FOR BOURKE STREET MALL.
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