Tuesday, 2 August 2022

Mordialloc electorate

Mr RICHARDSON (Mordialloc) (14:43): (6453) My constituency question is for the Minister for Transport Infrastructure. When will the next stage of designs for Parkdale’s level crossing removals and brand new train station be shared with our Kingston community? The 44-minute boom gate down times impact on our local residents at Parkers Road and Warrigal Road. Two hundred and ten trains run up and down the Frankston train line every day, and with the Melbourne Metro rail tunnel around the corner in just the next two years a turn-up-and-go service will mean more trains will be running more often to get you to where you need to go in the future. These level crossings are taking 20 000 vehicle movements between them at Parkers Road and Warrigal Road. They are dangerous, they are congested and they need to go. We shared an iteration of designs with our local community recently—hundreds of residents shared their views on what they want to see in the open space and the beautiful new reimagined areas of Parkdale—and the next design iterations are just around the corner. So I ask the Deputy Premier and transport infrastructure minister when those designs will be shared with our local community.