FRANKSTON line trains will skip the City Loop for the next five years. Major changes to train services were locked in last week. Passengers on the Frankston Line will skip the City Loop and travel straight through to Flinders Street until the opening of the Metro Tunnel in 2025. An extra 45 services a week have been added to the Frankston Line. Cranbourne and Pakenham line passengers will get 90 new services each week, and will now travel anti-clockwise through the loop. The changes come into effect 31 January, 2021. Other changes have been made to encourage passengers to travel…
Author: Brodie Cowburn
ALEX Fraser Group has been permitted to operate its Clarinda concrete crushing plant for another 10 years. The recycler’s permit to operate was set to expire in 2023. Council had rejected its bid for a longer stay last year, but the planning minister has stepped in to grant an extension until 2033. An advisory committee had been appointed by the planning minister to assess the case. The News understands that the committee recommended that the permit to allow material recycling and a refuse transfer station on the site be extended until December 2038. Kingston mayor Steve Staikos said he is…
PENINSULA A TOP order collapse saw Somerville fall short of victory in their clash against Heatherhill on Saturday. Heatherhill chose to bat first, and opener Don Pulukkuttiarachchi was in impressive form. He scored a half century, with his side making 185 before their innings came to a close. Somerville struggled, with five of their top six batsmen dismissed for scores of less than ten. Three of those batsmen went out for just one run. Number four batsman Bradley McDonald tried his best to drag his side over the line, but his knock of 57 wasn’t enough. Somerville ended up losing…
A MAN is dead after an alleged stabbing in Seaford. At around 7pm on 25 November, emergency services were called and told that a man had been stabbed on Station Street. Paramedics arrived shortly afterwards to work on 26-year-old Cam Smith’s injuries. He died at the scene. The following day, police arrested a 19-year-old Somers man and charged him with murder. He was held to appear at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on 27 November. Three more people have also been arrested in relation to the death. A 17-year-old boy from Frankston was arrested and charged with affray, intentionally cause injury,…
THE state government is still not onboard the Frankston rail extension project. There was no funding for the proposed project in the state budget handed down last week. The business case assessing the cost of the extension was finally released last month. The cost given for duplicating and electrifying the Frankston line to Baxter was quoted at an eye-watering $1.3 – $1.5 billion. The federal government has committed $225 million to the extension. CEO of advocacy group Committee For Greater Frankston, Ginevra Hosking, said “the extension is vitally important so Frankston and Mornington Peninsula residents can board trains at stations…