Melbourne’s south east

Road and rail projects are underway in your local area to help support the surrounding community.

Reducing traffic on local roads, removing level crossings and ensuring more train services stop at every station, our projects will get you where you're going safer and sooner.

Thanks for your patience as we continue building in Melbourne’s south east.

Projects in Melbourne's south east

Project timelines

Video: bayside progress

Music: Fun and fast upbeat music.

Voiceover: Victoria’s Big Build is improving road and rail and is already transforming how you travel in the south east.

Vision: Fast-paced compilation of footage – construction worker in a hard hat walking along train tracks, aerial view over a construction site, 2 women walking under a newly built rail bridge, 3 more aerial views over construction sites, a man walking alongside a moving train, a woman standing inside a moving train.

Title: Melbourne’s south east

Voiceover: We’re removing level crossings, with many already gone.

Text: 44 boom gates gone on the Pakenham and Frankston lines.

Vision: Aerial view of a train driving through an elevated rail bridge and station. Long-range aerial view over train tracks and houses. Traffic driving under a rail bridge. Cars driving on a road bridge.

Voiceover: We’re building new stations and making it easier to walk, cycle and enjoy new open spaces.

Vision: The screen splits into 5 sections, each showing a new train station - Mordialloc, Parkdale, Carnegie, Murrumbeena and Hughesdale stations. The screen splits into 6 sections, each showing a new train station – Clayton, Noble Park, Glen Huntly, Edithvale, Chelsea and Bonbeach stations.

Voiceover: We’re improving safety for drivers by upgrading and repairing some of our busiest and most congested roads.

Text: Road upgrades in the south east

Vision: The screen splits into sections showing 3 upgraded roads – Lathams Road, Mordialloc Freeway and South Road.

Voiceover: More trains on the Cranbourne and Pakenham lines will run through the new Metro Tunnel.

Vision: Text transitions to a blue screen with animated words sliding into view.

Text: More trains on the Cranbourne and Pakenham lines will run through the Metro Tunnel.

Voiceover: stopping at 5 new underground stations.

Vision: Driver's view from the front of a train driving through a tunnel. The screen splits into sections to reveal footage of the 5 new stations.

Text: Building the Metro Tunnel. A new rail line under Melbourne’s CBD. Arden. Parkville. State Library. Town Hall. Anzac.

Voiceover: The West Gate Tunnel will reduce travel times making journeys between the south east and west easier and deliver a vital alternative to the West Gate Bridge.

Vision: Aerial view over West Gate Freeway with the city in the background. The camera moves closer to the city, scanning the traffic below.

Text: Building the West Gate Tunnel. A vital alternative to the West Gate Bridge.

Voiceover: The Suburban Rail Loop will connect you to hospitals, universities and jobs.

Vision: Text transitions to a green screen with animated words sliding into view. The screen splits into 3 sections showing artist impressions of people walking around – a hospital, a university and an office precinct.

Text: Building the Suburban Rail Loop. Hospitals. Universities. Jobs.

Voiceover: We’re getting on with delivering what’s needed to keep the south east moving both now and for the future.

Vision: Close-up of construction workers smiling with recently removed boom gates, aerial views over construction sites, woman and child walking arm in arm at a train station, and long-range view of Melbourne with the city in the distance. Transition to a black screen with the white Victoria’s Big Build and Victorian State Government logos.

Text: bigbuild.vic.gov.au/southeast