Plans to replace sections of Victorian train line with an elevated sky rail are underway in the South-Eastern Suburbs. Anti-sky rail groups have been established along both the Cranbourne/Pakenham line and the Frankston line to fight the development, with one group printing up to 20,000 booklets detailing alternatives to the elevated rail line.
Founder of the No Sky Rail Frankston group Simon Johnson says the public has no issue with the removal of the level crossings.
“It’s a question of how they’re removed. And this is what the public’s issue is: when the government doesn’t actually come clean about the agenda and what it’s doing.”
Construction has begun along the Cranbourne/Pakenham line with Carnegie and Murrumbeena stations officially closed and replaced with buses. Frankston councillors have unanimously opposed the elevated line, formally backing an under road approach along the Frankston line. This decision follows neighbouring Kingston Council’s stance established in May.
The initiative put forward by the Andrews Government aims to remove the fifty most dangerous level crossings in the State by 2022 and is budgeted at $6 billion.
Sick of a tiny whining minority like Simon Johnson, who can now barely get 12 people to his “noskyrail” protests, claiming to speak of behalf of us real bayside locals. This “noskyrail” group is just a Liberal party front playing politics. Most of them don’t live anywhere near the railway line and never use public transport. If they really wanted “rail under” they had 4 years in government to do it. Instead they did nothing and kept ALL these dangerous level crossings in place. Pathetic!