One of Melbourne’s most car-heavy suburbs faces four-month closure of Alfred Road

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Thornhill Park is a high -density subsection surrounded by padoks waiting to turn into higher density houses in the west of Melbourne.

Alfred Road cuts these pads. The closing is triggered by the housing developers who are about to divide the region into subsections.

The road was closed on 18 August and the residents were not only informed of 12 days. It will be reopened as an urban standard road raised on December 5th.

Jayson Paul uses Alfred Road to reach the Cobblebank Station to take the V/Line train to the city. When he first moved to the area, he didn’t have a car, but he realized that life would quickly realize without a person.

“I decided that I should have a car in a month because there isn’t really a way out of the property without one, or he says.

The current road closure added 20 minutes to traveling to the train station. His partner, a school teacher, was shot harder, the school pick-up paste host added 45 minutes to the journey.

Alfred Road is also closed for several weeks in 2023.

“Alfred Road closes every time … Very pain for residents and nobody [decision makers] It seems to take it seriously, Paul Paul said.

“It has been working well for the last two years; they have multiplied even some of it. So this sudden closing hit hard.”

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The 15-week closure of the road led Melton Council to committing funds to build a second east-west path from Thornhill Park. The main plan for the suburban – newspaper in 2010 in the state parliament – contains such a second way, but there is a construction date of 2028.

Thornhill park resident Matt Pearse, considering the separation tempo of the larger urban expansion in Melton, argued that the community could not wait for three more years and won 800 signatures in a petition to the council.

“Throughout the Melton corridor, seven more communities were built and they will face the same situation.

For the first time, Pearse did not petition Melton Council about the bad road access in Thornhill Park.

The members of the Assembly unanimously voted unanimously to continue the debate on land acquisition that would ensure the construction of Shogaki Drive in response to a previous petition of Pearsse.

The current Mayor Steve Abboushi said, “This is an absolute nightmare and I think it is time to do everything we can to continue to support these inhabitants, as we suggested in this report,” he said.

However, Shogaki Drive remains in the design phase, and the financing for construction is only allocated for construction 2 years after the vote.

Pearse said the inhabitants were deeply disappointed.

Uz We know that we are a growing community, we have been aware of this for a long time, but we just want certainty about when the infrastructure will be delivered, ”he said.

According to Melton Council, Thornhill Park has a population of about 8378.

A Council spokesman said Shogaki Drive’s construction was planned for 2028, but the council is looking at the options for watching it quickly.

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“Alfred Road is currently being promoted to an urban standard as required by the planning permission by developers, Söz said Sözcü. “He did not have the ability to build the road when allowing traffic to use the path. The Council worked with the developers to minimize the disruption as possible.”

Separately, the state government plans to raise the western highway between Caroline Springs and Melton, which is used by 86,000 cars per day.

The Albanian government provided funding to raise the government, but the design details, including a long -term planned change for Thornhill Park residents, have not been explained.

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