Chelsea • Mordialloc • Mentone
GET YOUR
FREE TV GUIDE INSIDE!
YOUR GUIDE TO WHAT’S ON THIS WEEKEND FOR PENINSULA FAMILIES FACEBOOK: peninsulakids.com.au
An independent voice for the community
Your weekly community newspaper covering news from Carrum to Mentone
INSTAGRAM: mornpenkids
FREE 12
Wednesday 21 June 2023
For all your advertising and editorial needs, call us on 03 5974 9000 or email: team@baysidenews.com.au www.baysidenews.com.au LEVEL crossing works being undertaken in Parkdale. Picture: Supplied
Bus replacements continue for rail commuters Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au WORKS will begin soon to construct a temporary track on the Frankston line to keep trains running during major level crossing removal works. Work is ongoing to remove the level crossings at Warrigal Road and Parkers Road in Parkdale. More
workers will be dedicated to the project in coming weeks. Recent works at Parkdale have been undertaken on trenching and drainage. The Level Crossing Removal Project says that the Parkdale project is ready to “ramp up”. “Over the coming weeks you’ll see more machinery and more workers in the area with barriers in place along
Como Parade so we can safely get on with works such as piling for the elevated rail structures,” an LXRP statement read. “Works will continue to ramp up over the next few months as we begin construction of the temporary track that will keep trains running while we remove these two dangerous and congested level crossings and build a new Parkdale Station.” The state government plans to
remove all level crossings on the Frankston line by 2029. Earlier this month it announced that it had moved the construction of rail bridges between Mordialloc and Aspendale forward by three years. The level crossings at McDonald Street in Mordialloc and Station Street in Aspendale will now be replaced with sky rail by 2026. The state government also hopes to remove the level
crossing at Bear Street in Mordialloc by 2026, the same year it is expected to open the redeveloped Mordialloc Station (“Frankston line sky rail works brought forward” The News 14/6/23). Bus replacements are planned along the Frankston line until at least August. For more details visit ptv. vic.gov.au/disruptions/frankstondisruptions/