![]() ![]() Initially this requirement was met by expanding at grade car parks at nearby railway stations or on land freed up by the relocation of railway tracks, but as the project moved into more densely populated areas, this was not possible.Īnd so Cheltenham station gained a four storey 220-space car park in 2020.Īnd Mooroolbark station gained a four storey 900-space behemoth in 2022. With the launch of the Level Crossing Removal Project in 2015, there has been one iron clad commitment followed in every single project they have completed across Melbourne – “no net loss of car parking”. There a 156-space, five-level car park was built in 2003 beside the railway station, as part of a $10 million residential and commercial development on 4000 sq metres of publicly owned land.Īnd it took another decade for the third multi-deck car park to be built – a $10.8 million four storey structure at Syndal on the Glen Waverley line, which added 250 car spaces to bring the total at the station to 590. On the lowest level of the shopping centre car park, there is an area dedicated to all day parking by public transport users.īut it took two decades for the next one to be built – in inner suburban Elsternwick on the Sandringham line. ![]() The first multi-deck car park at a Melbourne railway station opened in 1984 as part of the rebuild of Box Hill into a transport interchange and shopping centre. So it isn’t a real surprise to see that ‘park and ride’ car parks have been seen as the solution to the problem. Melbourne is a city that has grown to depend on private motor vehicles, with a woeful bus network that fails to connect to the railway lines that do exist.
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