Tram line extensions WAS Re: W8 the car that NEARLY made it.

I thought the last extension was Middleborough Rd to Blackburn Rd for

Rte 75 which was part of the bicentenary funds or something (early
90's by the time it was done).

I deliberately didn't include two block extensions (or one block in this case!) Otherwise, the further extension of the route 86 from Bundoora to Bundoora RMIT could have been counted. I figure they are too small to be significant!!!!

I read somewhere once that the extension to Vermont Sth shopping

centre was the "first stage" of an extension to Knox City.

True, but we all know what will happen to that. After all, the 86 was to go to Mill Park then South Morang to meet up with the extended train line from Epping, the 75 was to go to Knox City and then Ferntree Gully, there was going to be a railway line then a light rail down the Eastern Freeway to Doncaster East then Shoppingtown. There was even going to be a 48 extension to connect up with it so commuters could go via the freeway express light rail or the 48 tram. I have yet to see much evidence of the park and ride for the freeway bus services, so I'm not holding my breath for any trams to Doncaster!

Plenty of other schemes proposed throughout the 80s and 90s that either died a quiet death or are still being talked about as the latest and greatest thing or were only half built from very limited Federal funding. Amazingly, freeway extensions and road funding seems to materialise out of thin air and be built in no time....

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