The Transport Minister Terry Mulder, Ian Dobbs (CEO of Public Transport Victoria - PTV) and Andrew Lezala (Metro) at the new multi million dollar Train Stabling and Maintenance Facility at Craigieburn. Picture: Darren Tindale Source: Herald Sun
MELBOURNE'S train network chief has outlined his vision for the future, including extending existing lines and building a new concourse at Flinders St station to cope with increasing passengers.
Metro CEO Andrew Lezala said Melburnians needed to swap cars for public transport to help secure the city's future.
Under Mr Lezala's vision:
SUBURBAN lines would be extended to Melton, Wallan and Baxter within the next 10 years;
SUPER-SIZED nine-carriage trains capable of carrying 1800 people and new signalling systems would double the network's capacity;
PRIVATE finance, developments above city train stations and different tax models would fund projects;
AN upper level western concourse would be built at Flinders St station to improve passenger flow and allow easier access to trams at Elizabeth St;
TRAINS would run every five to 10 minutes so passengers didn't need timetables;
THE Melbourne Metro tunnel would be the first of 16 underground lines built in the next 100 years; and
BUSES would become "feeders" to train stations rather than "duplicators".
Mr Lezala also took a swipe at the State Government for failing to invest properly in signalling.
"We have new signalling systems here ... with no redundancy in them so when we get a thunderstorm it fails - brand new systems - because we didn't have enough money to build redundancy in," he told a Metro breakfast.
"I think Treasury need to take that one, actually, because you get what you pay for."
He said a decline in train patronage from 228 million trips in 2010-11 to 222 million trips in 2011-12 was a "blip" and the numbers were set to surge along with Melbourne's population.
Currently, 10 per cent of all trips are on trains.
Public Transport Users Association president Tony Morton said: "If we were to pick just one thing out of Metro's wish-list and say 'do it now', it would be the high-capacity signalling."
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