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Plan ahead for
traffic changes
Traffic changes are in place
as part of Metro Tunnel
works, and drivers and public
transport passengers are
encouraged to plan ahead
Newsletter
before travelling.
Flinders Street remains closed
eastbound between Swanston
ISSUE 09 // FEBRUARY 2021 and Elizabeth streets.
There will be changes to
Milestones galore as TBMs forge ahead how vehicles and pedestrians
move around the Metro
Tunnel site on Grattan Street
Premier, and Australian women’s
The Metro Tunnel is cricket captain Meg Lanning – are
West in Parkville, between
Flemington Road and
a massive and complex working from the west into the Elizabeth Street/Royal
CBD. Millie and Alice – named after
infrastructure project Lady Millie Peacock, Victoria’s first
Parade from February 2021.
being built through female MP, and wartime medical From 26 February to 7 March,
hero Alice Appleford – are the Sunbury and Bendigo
the heart of the charting a course from the east. lines will be affected by work
Melbourne CBD. TBMs Joan and Meg completed
on the Sunbury Line Upgrade,
which will enable bigger,
the first 1.2km stretch of tunnel
We have four tunnel boring from Arden to Kensington in more modern trains to run
machines (TBMs) in the ground, February and March last year through the Metro Tunnel.
and recently reached a significant breaking through to create The Werribee/Williamstown,
milestone with more than 60 per the western tunnel entrance. Geelong and Ballarat lines
cent of tunnelling completed. will also be affected.
Construction of the station Construction across our worksites
is progressing well but there is On the Sandringham Line,
structures is well underway and
still a lot of hard work to be done buses will replace trains
the tunnel entrances at
and many risks to be managed between South Yarra and
Kensington and South Yarra
over the next few years to ensure Elsternwick stations on the
are well advanced.
the project is completed as safely weekend of 20-21 February.
Our awesome foursome of and quickly as possible.
TBMs – named after prominent For more information, visit
Victorian women – have made An enormous amount of testing metrotunnel.vic.gov.au/
excellent progress connecting needs to occur on the project once disruptions.
the different parts of the twin the majority of the construction
nine-kilometre tunnels. works are complete so the new
tunnels and stations can operate
Joan and Meg – named after safely and reliably but it remains
Joan Kirner, Victoria’s first female on track to be completed in 2025,
a year ahead of schedule.
Creative twist as works continue safely
Some of the most eye-catching – For this, and for helping keep
The health and safety and attention-grabbing – artworks all Victorians safe and well,
of our workforce on our worksite hoardings have we at the Metro Tunnel Project
and community been located in Parkville. Several want to say thank you.
creations champion the work
remains our top Meanwhile, Aboriginal artist
of the precinct’s health and
Maree Clarke has been
priority during the medical professionals whose
commissioned to provide the
commitment and excellence helps
coronavirus pandemic. to maintain Parkville’s reputation
line-wide art that will feature
across the Metro Tunnel’s five
as a world-class medical and
underground stations – Arden,
The Metro Tunnel Creative research precinct.
Parkville, State Library,
Program has continued rolling A photo tribute titled ‘Thank Town Hall and Anzac.
out a program of temporary You’, by Phoebe Powell was
works that contribute to Maree is a Yorta Yorta /
unveiled when Melbourne
offsetting the disruption to Wamba Wamba / Mutti Mutti /
was in lockdown to thank
residents and businesses at, Boonwurrung woman who
our health workers.
and near, the project’s worksites. grew up in Mildura and now
It is designed to keep Melbourne The display acknowledged lives in Melbourne. She is
a vibrant and attractive those who work in the Parkville a leading Victorian artist with
destination as we build this Biomedical Precinct and played extensive experience working
city-shaping project. a role in keeping Victoria with Victorian Aboriginal
safe during the coronavirus communities.
In September 2020, the Metro (COVID-19) pandemic.
Tunnel Creative Program This commission is one of six for
received a prestigious Good These included staff who tended the project, with the remaining
Design Award Best in Class to patients with the virus, safely five artworks to be located at
Accolade in the Architectural delivered babies during the the five underground stations.
and Urban Design categories pandemic and ensured the
in recognition for outstanding hospitals and labs were cleaned
design and innovation. and sterilised.
Progress in 2020
January: The final sections of concrete were
poured for the tunnel’s roof slab at the eastern
entrance at South Yarra. During the same
works, 1.8km of new track was installed, which
will connect the Cranbourne and Pakenham
lines to the Metro Tunnel.
February: Tunnel boring machine (TBM)
Joan broke through at the western entrance
at Kensington, completing the first section
of the Metro Tunnel.
March: TBM Meg broke through at Kensington.
April: Excavation of the main Parkville Station
box was completed.
May: Construction of the Parkville Station
entrance next to the Peter MacCallum
Cancer Centre began (and will continue
throughout 2021).
June: Roadheaders broke through at
Town Hall Station, linking City Square
and Federation Square underground.
All four TBMs were in action concurrently
for the first time – Joan and Meg from Arden
to Parkville, and Millie and Alice from Anzac
to South Yarra.
July: Roadheader breakthrough under
Swanston Street between Franklin Street
and A’Beckett Street.
August: TBM Joan broke through into the
Parkville Station box, having tunnelled almost
1.4km since she started her journey from
Arden Station in May.
September: The project reached the
milestone of more than half of tunnelling
complete on the project’s 9km twin tunnels.
TBM Meg completed the journey from Arden
to Parkville and TBM Millie broke through
at South Yarra.
Victoria’s Big Build October: TBM Alice broke through at South
Yarra. TBM Joan relaunched to tunnel the 1km
from Parkville towards State Library Station.
Victoria is currently in a transport
November: TBM Meg relaunched from Parkville
construction boom with 165 towards State Library Station. Manufacturing
road and rail projects being of all 57,112 concrete segments needed to line
the 9km twin tunnels is finished.
delivered and approximately
$80 billion invested. December: TBM Millie relaunched from
Domain and is heading towards the CBD.
TBM Joan reached State Library Station
Victoria’s Big Build continues to create thousands just before Christmas.
of jobs across Victoria, through record investment
in transport infrastructure projects that connect
communities and get Victorians where they
need to go safer and sooner. Find out more
at bigbuild.vic.gov.au
Why are we
building the
Metro Tunnel?
Melbourne Airport Rail The Metro Tunnel will bring
more trains to your suburb
and the Metro Tunnel and reduce travel times by
running the busy Cranbourne,
Pakenham and Sunbury lines
The Victorian and Australian governments have through new twin tunnels.
announced Melbourne Airport Rail will run from This will untangle the City
a new station at Melbourne Airport via Sunshine Loop, Melbourne’s biggest
bottleneck, and means more
Station, where it will then travel through the trains, more often across
Metro Tunnel and continue on the Cranbourne Victoria, with a less crowded
and more reliable train network.
and Pakenham lines.
The Metro Tunnel will create
room for additional train
Construction will begin in 2022, Rail Projects Victoria
passengers on lines across
with a target opening date of 2029, wants to hear about what’s
Melbourne, take cars off our
subject to relevant approvals. important to you as planning
roads and cut travel times to
and designing the project
Passengers will have access Parkville and St Kilda Road by
continues. You can have your say
to 10-minute turn-up-and-go up to 50 minutes a day. For
by visiting airportrail.vic.gov.au
services and an under 30-minute more information about how
to learn more and complete
journey into the CBD. This route the project will benefit you,
the online survey.
provides the quickest trip for visit metrotunnel.vic.gov.au
the majority of passengers
with the least number of
interchanges required.
More information
To find out more about the Metro Tunnel Project:
metrotunnel.vic.gov.au
1800 105 105 (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) It should be noted that this information is current at the
time of printing, however due to unforeseen circumstances,
Rail Projects Victoria changes may occur. Please visit railprojects.vic.gov.au for
PO Box 4509, Melbourne, VIC 3001 the latest updates.
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