{"id":325078,"date":"2025-11-29T11:44:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T01:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=325078"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:49:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:49:42","slug":"the-new-state-library-railway-station-is-impressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=325078","title":{"rendered":"The new State Library Railway Station is impressive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Took my first and only look thus far at the new State Library Railway Station this week and I was impressed. I arrived into Melbourne Central<\/a> and it was a very simple transition from there to the new State Library Station. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The design will make it simple and convenient to transfer between either station when the crowds arrive tomorrow. I myself do not subscribe to the recent hysteria<\/a> about needing to use a Myki to walk between the two railway stations if you are not travelling. There is simply not a reason to be taking a long elevator down into the bowels of the state library station concourse unless you are planning on travelling on the network, it would be quicker to cross the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do understand how having access to the stations on other underground pedestrian walkways would be advantageous. I have long said an under ground link between Melbourne Central and the QV complex would be very very useful and prevent the crowds moving from there to Melbourne Central.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would consider an underground walkway and entrance to the state library negating the need to cross busy Swanston Street would have been an added bonus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That being said, if you arrive at State Library and wish to access Melbourne Central this is easily achieved with a single barrier and touch off location. Either entry to the common ticketed area will get you access to either station as the photos above highlight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The station looks clean and bright with plenty of light available. There were 5-6 staff at the station on hand to answer questions about the Melbourne Metro Tunnel<\/a> and the railway station. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All in all this is an excellent outcome for Melbourne with the only issue overshadowing the project being the cost and the time it has taken to complete. I cannot see at this stage $15B in this project. We need to get smarter about building faster and making building decisions quicker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let’s enjoy what we now have and use this network to increase our productivity and travel options. Looking forward to riding the network tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Images from Brian Evans and David Roberston<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All in all this is an excellent outcome for Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":325082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1168,10073,47],"tags":[993,10028,17037,8],"class_list":["post-325078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro-tunnel","category-myki","category-rail-news","tag-melbourne","tag-melbourne-central","tag-state-library-railway-station","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325078","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325078"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325095,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325078\/revisions\/325095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/325082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}