Compiled by Cameron McCullough MORNINGTON residents are hopeful that the railway from Frankston will be electrified. The work is due to be undertaken next, after the electrification of the Healesville line, which has already been authorised.An electric line through to Mornington will bring this beautiful bayside suburb into the suburban residential radius, reducing fares and travel time to such an extent that city business people will be able to reside at Mornington throughout the year.Meanwhile motor transport has converted Mornington in a few years from a sleepy seaside hamlet to one of the most popular seaside resorts.Land values are firming…
Author: BaysideNews
Police have arrested a woman after a vehicle was spotted allegedly reaching speeds of 200km/hr in Melbourne’s south last night. Airwing spotted a white Holden Astra allegedly travelling at a fast rate of speed along Thompson Road in Patterson Lakes about 10.15pm. Officers on the ground located the vehicle and attempted to intercept it. The Holden allegedly refused to stop, continued driving along a footpath, reversed into a police vehicle and took off at speed. No one was injured. A short time later it is alleged that the same vehicle was spotted on Centre Dandenong Road in Moorabbin, where responding…
THE South Side Festival returns to Frankston next month. The festival will make a comeback between 8 May and 18 May. Neon lights will illuminate Beauty Park this year, in addition to a range of other lights shows and installations. Artist Joshua Searle will animate the Frankston Library forecourt with large-scale projections that celebrate Colombian traditions over the course of the festival. South Side Festival producer Freyja Macfarlane said “as South Side returns for its fourth year, we have worked to create a program that is exciting, intriguing, and inspiring, to captivate all ages and interests.” “Whether you’re a patron…
A LARGER-than-life hot-air balloon sculpture – the giant Skywhale and Skywhalepapa – will grace the skies over Mornington in what promises to be a sunrise spectacle. Created by leading Australia artist Patricia Piccinini, the hot-air balloons will take flight at Dallas Brooks Park as the first light of day breaks over Mornington on 26 April from 5.30am to 7.30am. Measuring 34 meters long and 23 meters high, the Skywhales are twice the size of a standard hot-air balloon. The free community event is being hosted by Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery and presented by the National Gallery of Australia and supported…
THE federal government has promised to spend $10 million upgrading the Western Port Highway. With the election called by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, campaigning is now in full swing. Federal infrastructure minister Catherine King visited the Western Port Highway last week to make the announcement – she said the money would go towards building road barriers and a centre-dividing barrier. “We’re fixing roads right across the state; we’ve doubled our road maintenance funding to local councils, reinstated road maintenance indexation that was scrapped under the former government, and are investing heavily in our regions and cities,” King said. The money…