Tuggerah Station upgrade plan reveal long awaited lifts
It’s been in the wings for years and now plans for the revamp of Tuggerah Station – including long awaited lifts – have been revealed. See the images here.
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It has almost half a kilometre of ramps but no lift.
This has been an ongoing source of frustration for commuters and locals that regularly use Tuggerah Station.
Accessibility issues at the busy station have prompted many protests over the years, however plans for the long-awaited upgrade have finally been revealed with the notorious ramp set for demolition.
Transport for NSW has released the plans for public comment, stating that the upgrades will “enhance connectivity between the station and Tuggerah Precinct, improve the public domain and make it easier for everyone to access public transport services including people with a disability, people with mobility aids, parents or carers with prams and travellers with luggage”.
Work, expected to be completed in 2024, will include a new pedestrian footbridge, lifts and stairs connecting the Pacific Highway, commuter car park and station platforms, new and extended canopies at the platforms, accessible male and female toilets and widening of the platform.
There will also be upgrades to the entrances as well as landscaping, new bicycle hoops, 15 accessible parking spaces in the commuter car park, improved CCTV and lighting and upgraded footpaths.
The work will include demolition of the existing footbridge, stairs and connecting ramps.
The Entrance state Labor MP David Mehan, who has been lobbing for lifts at the station for years, welcomes the release of the plans.
“The belated but welcome commencement of this project is a tribute to the campaign supported and maintained by my constituents for lifts at Tuggerah Station which we have waged over the last seven years,” he said.
Mr Mehan has kept up the fight for lifts saying Tuggerah is the only main station without lifts on the coast and said locals were sick of waiting.
Central Coast Parliamentary Secretary Adam Crouch said the $34 million upgrade to fund design work, planning and construction of accessibility upgrades at Tuggerah Stations is only one of six stations across the Central Coast which has received funding through the Transport Accessibility Program.
“Customers are already using the new lifts and upgraded accessible paths at Lisarow, Narara, Niagara Park and Ourimbah stations, with Point Claire Station to be complete in the coming months,” he said.
“Thanks to the Transport Accessibility Program, these stations are already easier to access for all customers including people with a disability, people with mobility aids, parents or carers with prams and travellers with luggage.”
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