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Suburban Rail Loop is an intergenerational endowment to Melbourne
If incrementalism was allowed to paralyse previous Victorian governments, the city and state we know today would be a backwater.
James MacKenzieSRLA board memberThe year 1985 was a landmark for Victorian infrastructure. Two significant projects were completed: the reconstruction of Box Hill Station and the opening of Flagstaff Station, marking the completion of the CBD’s City Loop.
These two projects are instructive case studies of what has come to be termed “transit-oriented development”, demonstrating how big infrastructure investments can be a catalyst for urban and economic growth.
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