A decade of safer travel after first level crossing removal

A decade of safer travel after first level crossing removal

Image: Jackie Davies/stock.adobe.com This month marks ten years since Victoria’s Level Crossing Removal Project removed its first set of boom gates, improving safety and easing congestion across Melbourne. The program began in January 2016 with the removal of the dangerous and congested level crossing at Burke Road, Glen Iris, lowering the rail line under the road and opening a new Gardiner Station. Burke Road had ranked among the city’s most co…

Level Crossing Removal Project to hit major milestones

The level crossing at Burke Road, Glen Iris before it was removed. Image: Victorian GovernmentThe Victorian Government is celebrating 10 years since the Level Crossing Removal Project began.  The first set of boom gates were removed at Burke Road, Glen Iris in January 2016, with the rail line lowered under the road and a new Gardiner Station opening.   Since then, 88 level crossings have been removed, with the government committing to have 110 g…

Photos from ten years ago: January 2016

Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is January 2016. Level crossing removals We start the month at the Furlong Main level crossing removal project on the Sunbury line, where at St Albans station a new bridge parallel to the existing railway tracks had been built to carry […]