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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2021
‘PM MUST HONOUR HIS RAIL PROMISE’
● Flashback: linders MHR Greg Hunt, then Dunkley MHR Chris Crewther, and Scott Morrison appear before the media in 2018 to make their promises.
■ Prime Minister Scott Morrison , then Federal Treasurer, announced $225 million in the May 2018 Budget to kickstart the Frankston rail extension. Committee for Greater Frankston CEO Ginevra Hosking said it is time for the Prime Minister to honour his promise. She said the project’s lack of progress since 2018 was “shameful” as well as “economically damaging” and a “squandered golden opportunity”. “We’re up to 92 years and counting. Frankston’s rail extension is a listed national infrastructure priority, one of Australia’s most important infrastructure projects,” Ms Hosking told The Local Paper. “A mere 5km of track saves our city from drowning in car parking congestion,” she said. “We’re over state and federal governments blaming each other for the lack of action. “Election promises are meaningless if the elected government doesn’t work with the state to deliver them. “It’s time to extend the track and resolve once and for all the
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public transport problem Frankston first identified in 1929. “If built to Langwarrin, the line would connect 37,000 residents in eastern parts of Frankston to Melbourne’s electrified metro rail network – and provide easier access to
● Flashback: Scott Morrison and Alan Tudge at Leawarra, promising the rail extension
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the network for 160,000-plus Mornington Peninsula residents. “The extension would revitalise the region’s underfunded and inadequate public transport network, and halt Frankston CBD’s economic decline.” The Frankston line would provide: a purpose-built park and ride at Langwarrin for commuters; a metro train station for Monash Uni’s Peninsula campus staff and students.
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