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Tensions rise over sky rail

Neil WalkerBy Neil Walker22 June 2016Updated:29 June 20161 Comment3 Mins Read
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Political stoush: The spectre of sky rail remains a clear and present danger for the Frankston line according to the Liberal Party. Picture: Gary Sissons
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Political stoush: The spectre of sky rail remains a clear and present danger for the Frankston line according to the Liberal Party. Picture: Gary Sissons
Political stoush: The spectre of sky rail remains a clear and present danger for the Frankston line according to the Liberal Party. Picture: Gary Sissons

A STATE government intervention over the possibility of elevated rail along the Frankston line has been condemned by Liberal candidate for Isaacs Garry Spencer.

Mr Spencer says media statements by state Labor Transport Minister Jacinta Allan and federal Labor Isaacs MP Mark Dreyfus this month was full of “weasel words” and did not rule out sky rail (Sky rail ‘grounded’, The News 15/6/16).

“Mark Dreyfus can’t hide behind Labor’s weasel words,” Mr Spencer said in a statement.

“Whether Labor wants to call it sky rail or not, whether it is 23km of continuous elevated rail or several multi-kilometre stretches, people don’t want it,” Mr Spencer said.

Mr Dreyfus faces voters on federal election polling day on 2 July but the Level Crossing Removal Authority, a state Department of Transport body, will announce options two weeks after the federal election for the separation of rail and road at eight level crossing intersections along the Frankston line.

A final decision on road over rail or rail over road at each crossing will be made at the end of the year.

Liberal state Upper House MP for the South Eastern Metropolitan Region Inga Peulich notes Ms Allan “failed to rule out lengthy stretches of elevated rail”.

All she did was rule out one continuous elevated line from Cheltenham to Frankston, basically proposing a rollercoaster,” Ms Peulich said.

Ms Peulich said when she was in government, engineers advised that Melbourne’s current trains require 400 metres to get up or down and 200 metres flat for a station.

“This means the rail must be elevated or sunk for at least 3.5km from Seaford to Chelsea to remove the three crossings at Carrum and Bonbeach, and get over Patterson River,” she said.

Ms Allan and Mr Dreyfus have accused the Liberal Party of running a “dishonest campaign” against sky rail on the Frankston line and say no official decision has been made on the construction of elevated rail on the Frankston line.

LXRA project director Adam Maguire said planning and consultation is continuing for the eight remaining level crossing removals along the Frankston line.

“This is quite unlike the Caulfield to Dandenong project where the Level Crossing Authority is removing all nine crossings between these two suburbs.”

First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 22 June 2016

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  1. Len Willemsen on 24 June 2016 6:12 pm

    I found out yesterday why our lustrous premier Sir Daniel Andrew wants a sky rail. The reason being that he lives in Mulgrave were he doesn’t have to look at the ugly structure every day when he looks out his front or rear doors or windows. HE DOES NOT CARE. he DOES NOT care about his constituents, He DOES NOT CARE what the people who voted his party into power. All he cares about is his mates in the unions/government and his big fat retirement pay out NOTHING TO ELSE. And this is probably the same for Jacinta Allan

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