COMMUTERS will face some early new year travel pain on the Frankston line while work is undertaken around Caulfield Junction to ensure new High Capacity Metro Trains can run through the junction. Power to the rail line between Moorabbin and Flinders St on the Frankston line will be switched off from 2 January until 9 January and buses will shuttle passengers to stations to and from Moorabbin between the station and Melbourne station. “I thank passengers for their patience as we get these works done – to run bigger trains, more often, every day on a modern network,” Victorian Public…
Author: Neil Walker
A STATE government website tracking the performance of councils across Victoria shows Kingston Council collects higher rates than similar-sized councils in the state but performs above average on providing the basics of roads but may need to work on improving rubbish bins collection. The Know Your Council site was launched by the Labor state government two years ago and is updated annually to give ratepayers a snapshot of how their council is performing across a range of services including community care, planning and waste collection. Information on the site for the 2015-16 financial year, released last week, shows Kingston Council…
A FISHING group that hosts lessons for disadvantaged and disabled children has rallied around to help a 7-year-old Carrum Downs girl who suffered burns to more than 60 per cent of her body in October. Cara Elfring is in the burns unit at the Royal Children’s Hospital and has had nine operations including skin grafts and will undergo more surgeries in the months and years ahead. Cara’s parents Sally and Ashley ‘Pav’ Elfring have spent most of their time at their youngest daughter’s hospital bedside since the horrific accident. That’s The Thing About Fishing heard about the young girl’s plight…
RATEPAYERS may still face a substantial bill in the wake of Frankston Council walking away from a $12.7 million redevelopment of the Frankston Basketball Stadium. A 7-2 majority of councillors voted last month behind closed doors to withdraw $4.5 million of ratepayers’ money from the stadium revamp. Frankston mayor Cr Colin Hampton also vowed council will work to have $5.2 million of federal government and $2.5 million of state government reallocated elsewhere in Frankston. The Times understands the designs for an expanded stadium, payments to builder Devco for preliminary work including the installation of containers at the existing stadium building…
A FRANKSTON councillor has been kicked out of the Australian Labor Party. South ward councillor Steve Toms had his party membership cancelled last month by the Victorian branch of the ALP. Cr Toms has been embroiled in a public stoush with Frankston Labor MP Paul Edbrooke over Young St traders complaints that the street redevelopment works negatively impacted on businesses. The increasingly bitter argument mostly conducted online on Facebook culminated in Mr Edbrooke threatening to sue the former deputy mayor for alleged defamation in September. Cr Toms took to Facebook last month to announce the Labor Party had cancelled his…