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Environmental assessment now complete for the Suburban Rail Loop

Concept image of the Suburban Rail Loop’s trains by Victoria’s Big Build.
Works begin on VIC’s Suburban Rail Loop
Suburban Rail Loop East (SRL East) will connect health, education, retail and employment precincts in Melbourne’s east and south east between Cheltenham and Box Hill. Image: Victorian Government.

Victoria’s Suburban Rail Loop has reached a significant milestone, with the project given the all-clear to proceed, following the assessment of its environmental impacts.

The Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) is the biggest infrastructure investment in Victorian history, The 90km rail line will link every major rail line from the Frankston Line to the Werribee Line via Melbourne Airport, better connecting Victorians to jobs, retail, education, health services and each other.

Three transport super hubs at Clayton, Broadmeadows and Sunshine will connect regional services, so passengers outside Melbourne won’t have to travel through the CBD to get to employment, hospitals and universities in the suburbs.

It is being delivered to prepare for Melbourne’s projected growth to a city of 9 million people by 2056.

The first section – SRL East from Cheltenham to Box Hill – is now under construction and is expected to generate up to 8000 jobs during construction. SRL East will be complete by 2035.

Additional works packages associated with the project are expected to be announced in the coming months.

For more information on the project, click here.

 


 

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