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Commuters at Rockbank station on the Melton line, which is still served by overcrowded V/Line trains.

Infrastructure Victoria objects to government delay on key rail upgrade for the west

Plans to extend the Metro network to Melton should be accelerated, the state’s infrastructure adviser says, but the state government has said it will wait until after 2030.

  • Patrick Hatch and Adam Carey

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Kena Gudina of Gojo Ethiopian Cafe in Sunshine performing a traditional coffee ceremony.

Greek to Vietnamese, strip malls to fine diners: The Good Food Guide heads west

The Guide’s number of restaurants in Melbourne’s west has nearly tripled over the past four years − and locals are loving it.

  • Emma Breheny
The Go West series culminates this week.

This is the population boom we’re not talking about – but should be

The population of Melbourne’s west is expected to almost double to 1.8 million people by 2050. That’s more than two-thirds the size of Brisbane.

  • Patrick Elligett
Roads Minister Melissa Horne.

Exhaustive reporting prompts mass venting from minister

Left fuming by this masthead’s reporting of evidence suggesting the West Gate Tunnel’s 50-metre sculptured ventilation stacks may be more style than substance, Melissa Horne let off some steam of her own.

  • Grant McArthur, Kishor Napier-Raman and Gemma Grant
Maribyrnong Mayor Pradeep Tiwari at the site of the Little Saigon Market, which burnt down in 2016.

This western suburb is ripe for a housing boom, council says. Developers disagree

In the heart of the inner west, 22 sites with planning permits for more than 4000 homes are sitting idle as developers are accused of landbanking.

  • Adam Carey and Patrick Hatch
The morning commuter crush at Rockbank station.

Western suburbs rail boost pushed back to 2030s and beyond

Electrification of the Melton line will not begin until the Sunshine Superhub is built, with upgrades to the booming Wyndham Vale corridor delayed even further.

  • Adam Carey, Chip Le Grand, Gemma Grant and Patrick Hatch
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WoMEDA is pushing for Sunshine to become Melbourne’s second CBD.

‘A metropolis of multiple cities’: The radical plan to fix the west’s brain drain

Planning experts say Sunshine should be Melbourne’s second CBD, while satellite cities in the outer west would allow western suburbs residents to work close to home.

  • Sophie Aubrey and Gemma Grant
Jan Goates outside the old state research farm, where she grew up in the 1950s and ’60s.

These ‘satellite cities’ could reshape Melbourne. Locals are pushing for jobs over housing

The outer west has absorbed more of Melbourne’s growing population than any other area. Investing in local jobs would transform the booming region.

  • Adam Carey
Housing Minister Clare O’Neil speaks at WoMEDA’s West of Melbourne summit.

‘Segregated’ city: The west alone can’t shoulder housing boom, minister warns

Housing Minister Clare O’Neil says wealthier inner and middle suburbs must accept new housing as Wyndham, Melton and Brimbank have done the “heavy lifting”.

  • Annika Smethurst
Commuters at Tarneit station in peak hour.

A second Metro Tunnel would have changed life in the west. Then the SRL came along

A rail tunnel to the CBD designed to ease commuter crush in the west and north-east, due to open as early as 2030, was shelved in favour of the Suburban Rail Loop.

  • Patrick Hatch

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