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Agreeing Persistent Keystone Elements
Can’t separate planning for Melbournefrom planning for Geelong
TransportCamp Melbourne, 1 November 2014
Tony Smith, @ynotds, Kororoit Institute
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• Melbourne + Geelong population from 1.32 million to 4.65 million in my life time
• Consistent historic doubling time around 40 years
• Should be planning for at least 10 million, learning from London and New York City
• Hopefully that will get us through more than 50 years to some signs of slowing down
• Melbourne was a major world city in 1890 — these numbers are just getting back near curve
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Fixing planning deficit• Break down the silos
• One size does not fit all
• Keystone elements facilitate, beneficially constrain • Must have agreed understanding, timing flexibility
• Connecting steps proceed in confident anticipation
• Geelong’s well known issues, keystone possibilities
• Focusing here on heavy rail and some highways
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Geelong Rail Bandaids• (Pending) Regional Rail switchover • (Once promised) Avalon Airport connection • North Geelong, North Shore & Corio stations • Rail Revival to Ballarat, Maryborough, Castlemaine • Geelong Station Heritage & Disability compliance • New Waurn Ponds station (just open) • Proposed new line to Armstrong Creek & Torquay • Breakwater to Drysdale restoration (elevated?)
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• RRL • Avalon • Corio • North Shore • North
Geelong • Rail Revival • Geelong
Station • Waurn
Ponds • Surf Coast • Bellarine
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Regional Rail Link switchover
Meet Wyndham Vale, Tarneit, Sunshine
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Authorised by the Victorian Gove rnment, 1 Treasury Place, Melbou rne
Avalon Airport Rail Link preferred alignment
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Legend
Preferred Alignment
Study Area
Avalon Airport
Avalon passenger terminal
Built up areas
Railway stations
Rail line
Freeway
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Castlemaine – Bendigo
Geelong
Melbourne
Ballarat
Melbourne – Bendigo Railway
To Warrnambool
To Ararat
Lethbridge
Meredith
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Tourello
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To Seymour
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Melbourne – Ballarat Railway
Distance: 69 km
North Geelong
Bell Post Hill
Melbourne
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Rail Revival to Ballarat, Bendigo
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Armstrong Creek Urban Growth Zone
Ring Road connector to Surf Coast Hwy under construction
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Apple Maps, nearmap & Victorian Government Planning Maps views
Breakwater-Drysdale Rail Trail/Reservation
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Potential Keystones• Bay West Port of Melbourne replacement
• Outer Metropolitan Ring (road & rail)
• Newport to Fishermans Bend rail alignment
• 1876 single track tunnel & downtown Geelong
• Power easement (NW) Melbourne to (NW) Geelong
• Eastern bypass across Corio Bay, drawbridge
• Direct peninsulas connection Bellarine-Mornington
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★Bay West
★OMR
★Newport Tunnel
★Central Geelong U’ground
★Power Easement
★Eastern Bypass
★Nepean Bay Bar
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• Hastings v Bay West likely to be faux battle • If freight volume stays near curve, value of real estate
occupied by current Port of Melbourne will kill it • Neither new site big enough, so will need both • Which one first? • Would Bay West survive more than one development
cycle?Adam Carey in Fairfax papers, 20
August 2014: Third option emerges for Labor's Bay
West port
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Outer Metropolitan Ring• In 2010 even VicRoads was treating the then newly
minted Transport Integration Act seriously enough
• Multiagency information sessions for Regional Rail Link, Urban Growth Boundary expansion, Werribee Plains grassland reserves and OMR+E6 (to east)
• Planning for 8 freeway lanes + 4 rail tracks Kalkallo to further west of Werribee than RRL junction
• What in/via G21 Region would use that capacity?
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• OMR’s southwestern terminal well aligned to serve Bay West
• Is there a chance for Geelong to serve western growth areas alternative to Melbourne CBD?
• Double catchment of Geelong
• Increase value of brownfield sites Corio and North Shore
• Impact on Princes Freeway West of OMR-bound traffic?
• Direct route to Tullamarine negative impact on Avalon?
• Viable staging priorities for project of size of OMR?
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Stephen Moynihan in The Age,
9 August 2007: Rail City:
blueprint looks at city's options
• Many of the suggested new lines well known
• Many more just fanciful
• First hint of RRL route
• Newport via Fishermens Bend crucial
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All trains heading to or returning from south of Geelong Station must pass through this single track tunnel opened
in 1876 which is too low for modern container freight
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• Rather than trying to duplicate 1876 tunnel, create new pair & station under Geelong CBD
• Start on closed pier alignment
• Station beneath Moorabool & Ryrie bisecting arc to Yarra St
• Reposition South Geelong station in cutting in car park
• When new line operational, lower tracks in tunnel to take full height container freight
• Triplicate South Geelong to Breakwater and duplicate beyond in all directions
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Old Pier tracks crossingBrougham St underpass
Bridge on Mercer Stover closed Pier line
View north down Moorabool crossing Ryrie
Old Pier line resurfacingcnr Gheringhap & Corio
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Powerline Reservation RouteAs too frequent traveller from Melbourne’s northwestern suburbs to & past Geelong, I’ve long wanted alternative to Princes Fwy. A powerline reservation route from bend in Deer Park Bypass to bend in Geelong Ring Road is 10 Km shorter than Apple Maps’s best current route between those points. Easy interchange with OMR would further expand choices in ways which could keep lid on demand/congestion on Princes Fwy.
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Marine charts and satellite maps suggest practical route for eastern Geelong bypass between Inner and Outer harbours
but only with deployment of drawbridge technology that is common place in NSW but seemingly unknown in Victoria
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Nepean Bay Bar• Won’t let 3 Km of water stop connecting a million in
G21 region with a million on Mornington Peninsula
• Bridge to rival Golden Gate?
• Tunnel to rival Marmaray beneath the Bosphorus?
• Or reconsolidate Nepean Bay Bar which kept Port Phillip Bay almost empty 1,000 years ago? • Potential climate/sea level change amelioration strategy • Move on from Bay West to Bay South • G. R. Holdgate, B. Wagstaff & S. J. Gallagher 2011
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• Where have we got re opening/implicit assertions?
• Agreeing Persistent Keystone Elements• The seven Keystone Elements outlined feed off each other and
creatively constrain more detailed planning decisions • Some will need multigenerational staged implementation • Port Phillip Bay following comparable path to Zuiderzee in The
Netherlands may be unavoidable game changer
• Can’t separate planning for Melbourne from planning for Geelong• Jurisdictional lines in the sand have their uses and their downsides
but, history aside, they are no longer helpful here
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Additional Acknowledgements• Plan Melbourne
• G21 Regional Growth Plan
• Regional Rail Link
• Avalon Airport Rail Link
• Rail Revival Study: Geelong-Ballarat-Bendigo
• Outer metropolitan ring/E6 transport corridor
• Port Phillip Recreational Boating Guide - Parks Victoria
• Apple Maps, nearmap, Planning Maps Online
• Separately linked Fairfax papers, Nepean Bay Bar paper and Wikipedia for info on Eaolianite limestone, Zuiderzee
• Robert Whitehill's Rye Line for Mornington Peninsula side
Tony Smith, @ynotds, [email protected], Kororoit Institute