• Lintson
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    1 year ago

    The State’s current debt, higher priority projects and the City of Melbourne’s inability to plan their way out of a cardboard box without developer intiative has meant that the Fishermans Bend development has been conveniently dropped.

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      1 year ago

      It would be another Southbank. Developers pad their pockets and some sterile, poorly planned and poorly built apartment blocks get dumped in a criss cross of poorly planned streets. Fisherman’s bend is near nothing of interest, just would be high end suburban sprawl in contaminated soil.

    • cuavas
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      1 year ago

      But why are they turning more of the Upfield line into an elevated railway when they can’t even deliver on promised light rail for Fisherman’s Bend? Some of the level crossings are still a pain, but the traffic flows a lot better now that there are a few more major east-west roads crossing the Upfield line without level crossings.