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Repair your bike and learn more By Corey Everitt Pakenham has gained a unique community asset with the opening of the brand-new bike repair hub, which aims to bring riders together to learn and support each other. The hub was opened on Sunday 19 May at Living and Learning Pakenham. Despite the rain, many local bike enthusiasts showed to welcome the community project. Pakenham Bike Repair Hub will be volunteer-run, a place where people cannot only repair their bicycles but learn how to do it themselves. The ethos is among many other community-driven projects at Living and Learning, with this addition bringing Pakenham into the fold of only a handful of similar hubs across the state. There are many different ideas planned for the hub in the future; currently, it aims to have two sessions a week starting in June - one on Tuesday afternoons from 3pm and the other on Saturday mornings from 11am. To keep up to date or get involved, follow the facebook page Pakenham Bike Repair Hub or email Max at max@livinglearning. org.au Peter Robinson, Max Godber and ‘Cookie’. 407937 Picture: GARY SISSONS
Going, going, gone Racecourse Road and Main Street were closed at alternating times to remove the level crossings. The closures will also see buses replace train services between Berwick and Pakenham from Wednesday 22 May until the last service on Sunday 2 June.
While train services are stopped, crews will connect the existing tracks to new tracks on the rail bridge, build foundations for the new Pakenham station, conduct signalling and overhead works. The level crossings at McGregor Road, Racecourse Road and Main Street are being re-
moved by building a 2.5-kilometre rail bridge over the roads, improving safety, reducing road congestion and allowing more trains to run more often. The two-kilometre extension of the Pakenham Line will connect trains to the new East Pakenham Station.
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The old Pakenham station is no more due to the blitz of Level Crossing Removal Project works taking over Pakenham over the past week. Both of the new elevated Pakenham and the new East Pakenham stations are set to be opened on Monday 3 June. As part of these works, McGregor Road,