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Lachlan
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Urban Planner (derogatory) | Melbourne
Will this be recorded?
February 4, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Whereabouts is the new one?
January 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I support this because it would make the worst people mad
January 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
All very confusing as LXRP were saying that that was prohibitively expensive due to a large water main near the surface. Council took over delivery and managed it in the same funding envelope apparently, so who knows.
December 20, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Secret third option where they moved the kerb and kept both the trees and the car parks
December 20, 2024 at 11:01 AM
Oh yeah, the money and impetus for this came from the Glen Huntly level crossing removal.
December 20, 2024 at 5:36 AM
Little hard to see, but this is the intersection at Neerim Road at the south end.

Perfectly safe, but kind of inconvenient because you have to cross two legs of the intersection.
December 20, 2024 at 5:27 AM
Overall, I’m glad this got built. There was a very real chance the entire thing would have been canned after the earlier controversy. This was the only major piece of bike infrastructure built in Glen Eira by the last council – hoping for more in the next few years. /end
December 20, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Bad stuff – the path abruptly ends just short of Caulfield Station, the Monash Uni campus and the beginning of to the Djerring Trail. We’re told another project is in the works to fix this, but who knows when that will happen. 6/
December 20, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Good stuff –The wide bi-directional path is quite comfortable. Crossovers at every side street means people can easily access the path (something that tends to get forgotten on similar paths elsewhere). 5 /
December 20, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Queens Avenue is an important link between Glen Huntly and Caulfield – the new path almost (foreshadowing) connects existing paths along the Dandenong and Frankston rail lines 4/
December 20, 2024 at 4:04 AM
But after much delay and consultation, the whole 800m path was constructed in about a month! Really shows you how quickly things can move once a decision is made. Speed limit has also dropped from 60 to 50 to accommodate narrower traffic lanes 3/
December 20, 2024 at 4:04 AM
The original proposal would have resulted in the loss of a couple of hundred trees (bad), and the alternative would have removed all on street parking (fine with me, but you can imagine how that went down) www.theage.com.au/national/vic... 2/
Council flips on state government as Caulfield tree war takes root
Glen Eira City Council says it can no longer back plans to raze more than 250 trees as part of a bike-path upgrade on the boundary of Caulfield Racecourse.
www.theage.com.au
December 20, 2024 at 4:04 AM
2020 still seems to be the most recent release. I suspect someone realised they weren’t going to meet they’re own deadline…
December 11, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Oh good, more ‘market led proposals’. The last one has been going so well.
December 11, 2024 at 6:48 AM
I believe it’s because Clayton has the relatively arbitrary ‘premium’ designation
December 8, 2024 at 5:15 AM
The Chadstone bus situation is such a debacle, especially on weekends.
November 30, 2024 at 2:21 AM
Featuring such absurdity and fear mongering as suggesting that a blanket 20 storey height limit is proposed for every activity centre
November 27, 2024 at 8:05 AM