Both major parties will build an Airport Rail through Sunshine, add stations in the West of Melbourne, build a fast regional train and extend train lines from Cranbourne to Clyde.
Daniel Andrews (LABOR): In the last 4yrs has already..
- Started building Metro Metro (to take pressure off the city loop)
- Started planning a high-speed rail from Geelong to Melbourne then Ballarat and Bendigo with $50m allocated in the 18-19 Budget
- Been making improvements through the $1.75 billion Regional Rail Revival project which began in 2016 and will continue to upgrade every regional passenger line
- Ordered 65 new High Capacity Metro Trains, all to be built in Victoria with 60% local content and a requirement to have 15% Victorian apprentices, trainees and cadets.
- Extended rail line South Morang to Mernda
If re-elected will:
- Build Suburban Rail Loop adding Monash, Burwood, Doncaster, Bundoora stations to the system and making regional lines enter Melbourne’s train system where they meet instead of all going to Southern Cross ie at Wyndham Vale and Melton coming from the West, Broadmeadows from the North and Clayton from the East.
- Put in $100m to develop a business case into fast regional rail which includes a new metro to Melton and Wyndham Vale, electrification of rail lines out to the west and considerations to build a tunnel between the CBD and Sunshine
- duplicating the single section of track between Deer Park and Melton
- $750 million to duplicate an 8-kilometre stretch of single track between Dandenong and Cranbourne to allow services to be run every 10 minutes.
Matthew Guy (LIBERAL):
- ‘European-style’ fast trains on all major regional lines
- Will add South Yarra Station to the Melbourne Metro
- Extend train line Frankston to Baxter with two new stations at Frankston East and Langwarrin and upgrades to Baxter station
- $300 million to duplicate the Hurstbridge railway line between Greensborough and Eltham stations
- Rebuild Montmorency station
Samantha Ratnam (GREENS):
- Will add South Yarra Station to the Melbourne Metro
- $8.5 billion for their Train Transformation Plan turn up and go services every 10 minutes between 6am and 9pm, seven days a week, on Melbourne’s key train and tram services
- Rail extensions
- New rail lines to service Doncaster and from Caulfield-Rowville
- Planning for Melbourne Metro 2 which includes a rail tunnel from Clifton Hill to Newport, new stations in Fitzroy and Fisherman’s Bend, rail extensions to Wollert and Wyndham Vale.
- Also supports Cranbourne to Clyde rail extension
- Electric trains on the Melton line