{"id":107591,"date":"2024-08-14T07:55:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T21:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/?p=117103"},"modified":"2024-08-14T07:55:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T21:55:56","slug":"works-charge-ahead-in-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=107591","title":{"rendered":"Works charge ahead in Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Officer.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\"><figcaption>Image\/Victoria&#8217;s Big Build<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div id=\"content_container_882490\">\n<p><strong>Works are continuing at Station Street, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/designs-unveiled-for-officer\/\">Officer<\/a>, where the level crossing was permanently closed to traffic and boom gates removed in May 2024 as part of the Victorian Government commitment to make the Pakenham Line <a href=\"https:\/\/bigbuild.vic.gov.au\/\">level crossing free<\/a> by 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-117103\"><\/span>With the new Brunt Road bridge in Beaconsfield opening in April 2024, drivers now have a safer, more reliable place to cross the rail line. Vehicles can also continue to use nearby Siding Avenue, Officer underpass to safely cross the rail line.<\/p>\n<p>Crews are working to build a new pedestrian connection on the north of the rail line, connecting existing paths on either side of Station Street and improving access to Officer Station.<\/p>\n<p>Works are progressing to build a shared use path along Officer South Road, improving safety and access to Officer Station.<\/p>\n<p>Works at Station Street, Officer will continue until late 2024 to improve the road condition, including signage and lighting, as well as planting 3000 new trees, shrubs and grasses.<\/p>\n<p>Closing this level crossing improves safety \u2013 with 6 near misses at the level crossing since 2012 \u2013 it will reduce congestion and contribute to a level crossing free Pakenham Line by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Across Melbourne, the state government is removing 110 level crossings by 2030, with 84 already gone for good.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/works-charge-ahead-in-officer\/\">Works charge ahead in Officer<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/\">Rail Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Officer.jpg\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Image\/Victoria&#8217;s Big Build<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Works are continuing at Station Street, Officer, where the level crossing was permanently closed to traffic and boom gates removed \u2026 <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/works-charge-ahead-in-officer\/\">Works charge ahead in Officer<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/\">Rail Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,879,163],"tags":[10376],"class_list":["post-107591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-infrastructure","category-level-crossing-removal","category-rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand","tag-rail-express"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107592,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107591\/revisions\/107592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}