Have your say

If you’re looking to have input into our projects, we’re listening.

At key times during each of our rail and road projects we’ll reach out to communities to ask you for your views. We want to know about what’s important to you, and how we can best keep you up to date.

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How we work with the community

We’re building transport infrastructure for the community, with the community. Each project we work on has a community engagement strategy, which sets out how we:

involve local communities and stakeholders in the project
seek out diverse views on the project
feed back the results of our community engagement activities
keep communities and stakeholders up to date on the progress of the project.

A train running over the new Avon River bridge.

Case study: Apex Park, Stratford

The community of Stratford, in Victoria’s east, helped to co-design improvements to a local park.

Apex Park is situated next to a new rail bridge over the Avon River. As a result of construction on the bridge, there was an opportunity to rebuild part of the park.

The local community was involved every step of the way. First, we asked locals to vote on what features they wanted in the playground. When we visited their schools, the students of Stratford Primary and St Patrick’s Primary helped us to understand the local community’s priorities.

Based on the votes, we created a concept design for a BMX/pump track and a nature-based playground, which included the 7 elements most requested by the community. Then we again sought feedback from the community on the design.

The improvements to Apex Park were completed in 2021.