As part of our level crossing removal projects, not only are we making local communities safer and Melbourne’s traffic less congested - we’re also committed to urban renewal during construction and creating new community open spaces.
As of October 2020, our projects have created nearly 14 MCGs worth of open space and our teams have planted well over 330,000 new trees, shrubs and plants.
We’ve also relocated palms in Frankston and Essendon, and harvested thousands of seeds to be raised and replanted in the open spaces we are creating.
We recently revisited some of the first suburbs where we removed level crossings and built new train stations to capture the changes in the landscape and learn more about how the communities are using their new open space, plus which planting has thrived.
Take a look at some of the incredible transformations below.
Bayswater Station
As part of level crossing removal works at Mountain Highway and Scoresby Road, which were completed in 2016.
Essendon Station
As part of level crossing removal works at Buckley Street, which were completed in September 2018.
Carnegie open space
As part of level crossing removal works at Koornang Road, which were completed in June 2018.
Carrum open space
As part of level crossing removal works at Mascot Avenue, Station Street and Eel Race Road, which were completed in February 2020.
Clayton RSL memorial
As part of level crossing removal works at Clayton Road and Centre Road, which were completed in April 2018.
Mernda Station
As part of the Mernda Rail Extension, which was completed in August 2018.
Middle Gorge Station
As part of the Mernda Rail Extension, which was completed in August 2018.
Rosanna Station
As part of level crossing removal works at Lower Plenty Road, which were completed in May 2018.
Skye/Overton Road shared use path
As part of level crossing removal works at Skye/Overton Road, which were completed in June 2018.
