Me Melbourne Met Metro Rai Rail Domai Domain St Station ion A SQUARE PEG IN A ROUND HOLE
Domai Domain St Station ion • Presenter: William M. McIntosh B.E.(Hons), M.Sc., MAusIMM(CP) • Background: • Engineer educated in Melbourne and Canada, • Over 45 years experience in mining and infrastructure, • Minor involvement in City Loop preliminary works in Y1969 • Designed, managed and built infrastructure in Australia, Indonesia, Colombia, and Bangladesh • Advised multi ‐ nationals on rail and port infrastructure world ‐ wide • Reputation for problem solving in complex situations WMM 2
THE DOMAIN OVERVIEW FROM TOORAK ROAD TO DORCAS STREET WMM 3
Domai Domain St Station ion Problems: • Requires removal of 200+ mature trees in the World’s Most Liveable City. Replacements will take 25 years (a generation) to mature • Vandalises Melbourne’s Premier and World ‐ Famous Boulevard – a tourist icon. In the direct vicinity of The Shrine • Construction will seriously impact the flow of peak hour vehicular traffic along a main access route to and from the City. Effectively reduced to one lane, and none when a tram stops to discharge/load passengers. WMM 4
Domai Domain St Station ion Problems (continued): • Will divert traffic onto Queens Road/Kings Way or Punt Road/Hoddle Street, which are already stop/start at Peak Hours. This will add significantly to Travel Times for all, and cause major delays with incidents • Impacts tram and bus travel times along St Kilda Road for many years, particularly at Peak Hours • Markedly increases the risk of injury to tram passengers alighting along a section of St Kilda Road for years. Added road rage will increase this risk WMM 5
Domai Domain St Station ion Problems (continued): • Places the many, and increasing, bicycle commuters along St Kilda Road at much higher risk of vehicle collisions with greater traffic pressure, and road rage increase • Increases the risk of injury to pedestrians & students from two major schools with loss of Safe Tram Stops • Damages the Boer War Memorial Park • Wastes the $ Millions spent on the Domain Tram Interchange WMM 6
QUOTE: “St Kilda Road is a key transport corridor with 41,000 vehicles and 3,000 cyclists using the road each day and 31,000 pedestrians using this section of road during the morning and afternoon peaks. Between 2010 and 2015, 122 accidents involving cyclists and 74 involving pedestrians were reported. Two lives were lost and 33 crashes resulted in serious injury.” VicRoads, August 2016 WMM 7
Domai Domain St Station ion Problems (continued): • Requires some 300,000 cubic metres (over 500,000 tonnes) of excavated material to be hauled away, adding to traffic congestion and road damage. • Above construction impacts will continue for 3 – 5 years • AND WMM 8
Domai Domain St Station ion • Will cost about $500 million to complete (excluding value of travel time impacts for all users). Issues: • The complex site, with all the provisions of continued traffic usage, and the many utilities to be relocated, are large added costs • The difficult working location will add a large percentage to the costs of excavation and construction WMM 9
Domai Domain St Station ion Partial Solution: • Use cavern method for excavation This will: • Only reduce the abovementioned impacts partially, as large surface works will still be required • Could cost an additional c.$200 million WMM 10
Domai Domain St Station ion But it is worse than that! WMM 11
ROUTE #8 TRAM TRACKS RE ‐ LAYED IN TOORAK ROAD NORTH TRAM AND ROAD LANES EXCAVATION IN SHRINE GROUNDS DIVERTED SEVERAL TIMES DOMAIN TRAM INTERCHANGE DEMOLISHED EXCAVATION RIGHT UP TO BUILDINGS A SQUARE PEG IN A ROUND HOLE WMM 12
Alternative Station WMM 13
Al Alterna rnative – P – Park St Station ion Solution: • Locate UG rail station along the northern edge of Fawkner Park adjacent to Toorak Road • Exit points from UG could be provided at St Kilda Road (via an UG travelling walkway), at Park Street, and on the northern side of Toorak Road • The former will directly connect with all present St Kilda Road trams. Including Tram #55, for which trackage exists for continuation to Toorak Road • The Park St exit connects to Tram #8 along Toorak Road to South Yarra and beyond WMM 14
Pa Park St Station ion Solution: • The Park Street Exit is only 400 metres walk from the western end of the South Yarra commercial sites. • It is less than 1 km (tram or walk) to the South Yarra Station – negating the case for an UG station there • Only 800 metres from the Alfred Hospital • It is only 400 metres from the Shrine Reserve along quiet side streets, or a short tram ride at frequent intervals WMM 15
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CURRENT LOCATION JUST NORTH OF HERE #8 Tram PARK STATION CONCEPT WMM 17
A RELATIVELY CLEAN SITE VERY MINIMAL SERVICES AND UTILITIES NEED TO BE RELOCATED CONSTRUCTION SITE CAN BE LARGELY OFF ROAD, PLACEMENT CAN MINIMISE THE MINIMISING DISRUPTION NUMBER OF LARGE TREES LOST WMM 18
PARK LAND and INFRASTRUCTURE CAN BE RESTORED AND IMPROVED DIRECTLY OVER STATION A SUBTERRANEAN PEDESTRIAN PLAZA/CROSSING IS NOT REQUIRED, REDUCING EXCAVATION DEPTH/VOLUME SIGNIFICANTLY EXISTING TENNIS COURTS AND KINDERGARTEN CAN BE TEMPORARILY RELOCATED NEARBY WMM 19
A MINOR MOVE, VAST IMPROVEMENT THE SHRINE AND BOTANIC GARDENS SCHOOLS SCHOOLS ALL OTHER #8 TRAMS TRAM SOUTH YARRA COMMERCIA ALBERT PARK DISTRICT AND STATION ST KILDA ROAD OFFICES AND APARTMENTS PARK STATION SERVICES SCHOOLS NEEDS BETTER ALFRED HOSPITAL SCHOOLS WMM 20
Pa Park St Station ion Benefits: • Minimises Loss of Mature Trees • No loss of “image” for Melbourne • Minimises disruption to Vehicular Traffic • Eliminates disruption to Tram Services, waste of expenditure • Eliminates risk to cyclists and pedestrians • Virtually no Services/Utilities encountered/relocated • Significantly reduced depth of Excavation required • Over 100,000 cubic metres less excavation • AND WMM 21
Pa Park St Station ion Will: • Cost $200 – 400 Million less, whilst, • Requiring a significantly less Build Time WMM 22
Dom Domain (sic) (sic) St Station A good (?) idea at the time, but the detail has shown that it has many drawbacks: Costs Environmental Impacts Risks Park Station A small change, but, the logical decision! Thank You! WMM 23
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