Edited 10 Feb 2019 20:26, 2 years ago, edited by True Believers

Well if anyone remembers. The Doncaster Rail study looked at 3 options.

A local stopping all station service, a rapid express service + Metro 2 or the orbital link. Not all 3 built at once.

It preferred the rapid express + metro 2 option. Also I noted that they said decoupling the Mernda line would need to happen anyways in the future as patronage growth exceeds the maximum capacity even with HCS and capacity improvements on the Clifton Hill group.

The current government doesn't want to build just a small section of the orbital loop, so in terms of patronage would be higher than shown by the Doncaster rail study team. Since the government preferences the orbital link, this means the other options will not go ahead.

Although this section of the Orbital loop is not the first stages, so it is still unknown whether it would ever happen.

Anyways at 4-6 billion dollars just to get the rail to the park and ride of Doncaster, seems to be not much value for money for services just a small portion of Melbourne.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LROxxYDrgmI&t=0s&list=PLHIvsxgJ17w555xfwIiX5FjmNjbJ1OS6w&index=274