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Lost boy
TEENAGER Matthew (actor Craig Hyde-Smith) dreams of a better life as he struggles to cope with abuse from his stepfather in a confronting but informative new play The Truth is Longer than a Lie penned by Edithvale playwright Kieran Carroll. The play, based on a PhD thesis on child abuse, was commissioned by Monash University and will be staged at Frankston Arts Centre this month. See story Page 7. Picture: David Collopy
Council: ‘No’ to sky rail Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au THE jury is out on whether sky rail influenced this month’s Isaacs federal election result but July still looms as a major milestone in the future of the Frankston rail line when options for the separation of road from rail at eight level crossings along the line will be revealed. Federal Labor MP Mark Dreyfus was returned for the fourth time as the Isaacs electorate’s representative in
Canberra with a 5.8 per cent margin, up from 3.9 per cent, with 79 per cent of the votes tallied by the Australian Electoral Commission against an average swing of 3.42 per cent to Labor nationally. The Level Crossing Removal Authority, a state Department of Transport body, will release options for level crossings removals along the Frankston line this month but opposition to elevated rail under any circumstances is mounting. Kingston councillors voted to formally oppose elevated rail but hope
this decision will not exclude council officers from further consultation with state government officials over level crossings removals. “Although Kingston welcomes more information about level crossing removals on the Frankston train line, we are concerned that Public Transport Minister Jacinta Allen did not address the question of single-crossing elevated rail and only ruled out socalled ‘sky rail’,” Kingston mayor Cr Bearsley said in a statement late last month. “I believe the government’s defi-
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nition still needs to rule out singlecrossing elevated rail. At Kingston our residents have spoken and we are opposed to all elevated rail – whether it be for a single crossing or multiple crossings on the Frankston line. “For a single level crossing, elevated rail would still be a very intrusive structure. It will be elevated for at least 1km throughout bayside suburbs,” Cr Bearsley said. State Labor Public Transport Minister Jacinta Allan said last month that there never has been any plan for “extended elevated rail on the Frankston
line” (‘Sky rail ‘grounded’’, The News 15/6/16). Decisions on whether elevated rail or road under rail is more appropriate are still to be made for crossings at Balcombe Rd (Mentone), Charman Rd (Cheltenham), Edithvale Rd (Edithvale), Eel Race Rd (Carrum), Seaford Rd (Seaford), Skye/Overton Rd (Frankston), Station St (Bonbeach), Station St (Carrum). Road under rail works are underway at three level crossings at North Rd (Ormond), Centre Rd (Bentleigh) and McKinnon Rd (McKinnon).