City of Manningham Residents’ place of work 36,052, or 67.8% of the City of Manningham’s working residents travel outside of the area to work. Where do the City of Manningham’s residents go to work? Journey to Work data shows how many residents work locally, and how many commute out of the area and where […]
BUS TUNNELS AND BRIDGES TO AVOID DONCASTER HILL GRIDLOCK
It is strange Manningham Council now talk about the problem of traffic congestion when their own consultants (GTA) had failed to raise the issue in any of their preliminary studies except for a grade separation for pedestrians…. Manningham engineers advise, with or without the provision of rail at Doncaster Hill, a grade-separation of buses will […]
THE RAILWAY DREAM – Melbourne
This was sent in by Richard King, while it’s focus is on Manningham rail, it does explain the bigger picture, particularly funding issues and time frames. I can’t understand why they keep the prospect of a rail service alive, after all the promises and studies etc, most people believe if it were viable it would […]
1 Billion Plan for Monorail to Melbourne Airport in a few years
These articles were in the Age & Sun today… A proposal from private entrepreneur Peter O’Brien for a driver-less high speed train over the Tullamarine freeway. The Age Plan for monorail to Melbourne Airport The Sun Bold plan to build $1 billion monorail above the Tullamarine Freeway under way It is said to be cheaper […]
Rail Phase one Study Recommendtions
In case you wanted to know what the Study for Manningham’s rail had achieved so far, you can find the entire indexed documents here:
Forecast on the Hill
Doncaster Hill was the focus of Manningham Growth and the jewel in the crown. However we seem to be getting further away from those expectations every time we review… From Francis Day After trawling through reports and studies regarding the Doncaster Hill strategy, we were amazed at the number of flaky assumptions and flawed reports […]
History Of Rail Endeavour Manningham 1890 to 2014
Bel Harris has been doing her home work – follow on from Rail Ad wasted funds… Addressed to Joe Carbone CEO of Manningham. Joe, Our politicians will not say , but our faceless bureaucrats have already decided that buses will be the transport solution for Doncaster Hill which might help explain the timing of the […]
Wasted Funds on Rail Ad – CEO response
Further to the letter from Belinda last week – we have the response from the Manningham CEO – See below. It seems Manningham still thinks there is an opportunity for Rail of some sort, even after the State Gov. published funding. Dear Belinda, I acknowledge your comment and view expressed in your email of 14 […]
Expanded bus Service and dedicated bus lanes
In case you were wondering just what is being planned for Manningham to Melbourne city commuters, here is a map and a press release on the topic. East West Link MAP Doncaster Area Rapid Transit SmartBus
Manningham Still Addicted To Cars, Less Full Time Employment and Still No Cyclists
Any significant “Mode Shift” (cycling and use of public transport) is not reflected in the 2011 census data.. Work journeys TO Manningham : 83 per cent of work journeys to Manningham in 2011 were by car, compared to 84% in 1996, while 5 per cent were by public transport. an increase of 1% since 1996. […]