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Tunnel vision: Can the Metro Tunnel reclaim Melbourne's top liveability ranking? (beat.com.au)

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[–] SituationCake@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’ll be honest, I’m not really sure what it will achieve other than new inner city stations? Parkville is needed due to the uni and hospitals, but I don’t really know how useful the others will be. The inner city is already exceptionally well serviced by public transport compared to the rest of Melbourne. So it kinda seems like it’s just making it better for existing users that already have it pretty damn good? I don’t live or work anywhere that will benefit, so I’m a bit meh about it.

[–] zik@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The main point is to disentangle those lines from the city loop. That way more services can be run and since the lines will be independent a problem on one line won't bring down the entire network any more.