We’re sending 80 trees on vacation, as we get ready to remove two dangerous and congested level crossings and build a new modern station in Parkdale.
Tree transplanting is an important biodiversity initiative that means we can maintain some of the established trees while works are happening and bring them back once construction is complete.
Banksias, tea trees and she-oaks along the rail line have started their short holiday at a nursery in Dingley Village. They will be taken care of until they return home to be replanted as part of the extensive landscaping plans for Parkdale.
We’re also preserving Parkdale’s iconic canary date palms, which will be relocated later in the project.
More than 50 palm trees along the Frankston Line have had holidays while we removed level crossings at Ormond, McKinnon, Bentleigh, Cheltenham, and Carrum. Palms at Glen Huntly will be back at the new station soon.
We heard from locals that trees are a valued feature of Parkdale, so we are working hard with landscape designers and arborists to retain as many trees as possible.
We will plant more than 100,000 trees, shrubs, and grasses in the new open space and along the rail corridor once works wrap up in 2025.
