A further $98.7 million will deliver more frequent services for passengers on other lines, making it easier for passengers to get to work and home sooner.
The state government will spend more than $700m to facilitate ‘turn up and go’ train services once the $15bn Metro Tunnel opens. But not all train lines will benefit from the cash.
New track diagrams show rail lines from Melbourne’s west are likely to have to limit services running through the $15 billion Metro Tunnel once it opens.
A proposed realignment of rail around Kalgoorlie’s Super Pit gold mine and the development of an intermodal transport facility has been mooted for decades.
