Metro Tunnel Construction Update 2024 (Melbourne Railway Vlog 216)
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- Officially scheduled to open in 2025, construction Melbourne's 9km long Metro Tunnel is very well progressed, to the extent that some sections of it are essentially finished! This video shows the publicly visible progress at all 5 stations, as well as at the two entrances at South Kensington and South Yarra. Hope you enjoy the video!
Intro: 0:00
Western entrance: 0:31
Arden: 2:12
Parkville: 3:53
State Library: 7:21
Exciting tram news: 8:28
State Library: 9:21
Town Hall: 10:13
Anzac: 11:21
Eastern entrance: 14:21
Outro: 17:16
Check out Reuben Silveira at: / @reubensilveira356
Outro music: On & On - Cartoon (feat. Daniel Levi) [NCS release]
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holy shit, how is it that a random recommended video on CZcams by a single person is 100x more informative and interesting compared to what the government has actually been telling us about this project... watched your whole video and it was great
Hahahaha thanks, I'm glad you found it informative!
totally agree.. easy presentation style, talks to all the things you want to know, that's a follow for sure, legend! 👍
Thanks :)
Thanks, that was really interesting. Looking forward to this construction being finished and have a look first hand 😊
My pleasure! Yes, I can't wait to ride it!
So what about for example people coming from the Dandenong line headed to the MCG? There is no South Yarra but there is no Richmond either. How do they get to the MCG? Will they have to get off at Caulfield and swap to a Frankston-city train?
Or they stay on the train to the city and catch another back to Richmond?
Am I missing something? Seems like a huge oversight to not stop near the biggest sporting venue in Australia.
Great video, saves everyone the time to look at it themselves, along with some extra information. Thanks for this video Reuben!
Thanks! Although I still recommend seeing it for yourself anyway, or at least some of it. Videos only can convey so much!
Thanks for your enthusiasm and interest in what is an amazing piece of public infrastructure. We may complain about the cost but in decades to come we will be thankful.
My pleasure! And I agree. This will definitely prove to be a worthwhile project, even if it has gone a bit over its budget.
@@melbournerailwayvideos a bit over budget? are you talking about billions?
This was so interesting! It's hard to see there being another 10 months of work, so hopefully Melbourne gets a Christmas present
Fingers crossed!
Love it Reuben. Hope you can do a repeat sometime around the end of the year or early next year just before or after the tunnel is officially opened to the public. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Karl! Yes, good idea. I'll definitely think about doing that if I get a bit of spare time.
Thanks so much for a look at this part of the Big Build.
No worries :)
you need to get the spelling right, it's big billed.
19:01 Always better to under-promise and over-deliver!
Thanks for your super-informative video! 😊
it's wasted billions already, wake up
@hzhou9338 Surely, we won't know if it's 'wasted' until after works have been completed, commuters are using it, and data has been gathered and analysed...
Out of curiosity, although possibly against my better judgement... What would you have spent those billions on instead had you been in some sort of position to do so?
@@The_Ubatron do you have to borrow billions and spend it? Do you know VIC tax payers pay billions of interest on the government debt thanks to Dan Andrew's zero respect to taxpayers money. Allan government taxed every inch of the land and cut budget for school, hospital, police etc. but still push the big projects. Well if you think it's okay because we will have something 'amazing' based on government BS analysis, I have nothing else to say.
@@The_Ubatron ok I replied but apparently it was removed, no surprise the Labour government doesn't want any opinion against them.
@hzhou9338 Not sure what you mean. Perhaps you could word your reply, which you say was removed, differently so as not to breach the rules of the comments section.
Wow, I really like the main Arden station building. The large arched corridor is beautiful, with the repeating ribs making it more interesting.
It is a bit of a monstrosity, but I like it too! Can't wait to be able to see it in its finished state from the inside.
That wasn’t a leaked government I think it was actually leaked from the builder. Even if it opens in 2025 I’d still be happy; New transport infrastructure and still 1 year ahead of schedule
It was leaked by the builder, but the government and the builder are working together on the same thing so their plans are the same.
I agree though. I'd still be content with it opening in 2025.
@@melbournerailwayvideos the leak was from one of the builders and possibly slightly misinformed. There is shockingly little agreement between the state and construction companies on this atm.
Thanks for this visual update.. I ride the tram through Anzac station almost daily and it is neat that you have helped me make sense of what I am staring at. Also looking forward to be able to interchange to a Metro train to the Southeast at Anzac rather than having to go all the way into Flinders St
I'm glad you found the video insightful. And yes, taking the train from Anzac will be a great perk!
With the tbms they used the outer shell as part of the tunnel structure. The cutters were cut up and scrapped. The gantries were dragged back to the previous stations and everything was assessed for reuse.
Seems like they went to a lot of effort to get the most out of them. Good to see!
In regards to State Library, the platform areas are pretty much all done as is all the concreting work for most levels down to B4. Most of it is still bare but the majority of these floors won't be accessible to the public anyway, so fitout works will continue during train operations.
The concrete work for B5 is almost done as is preparation for B6. Concrete works should be done in time for passenger operation. Fitouts can be done afterwards.
It's truly chaos down there.
Fun fact, the original plan was for it to go all the way down to B7 but that got canned as it would delay opening. The main shaft which excavators were lifted down are now being formed up and concreted, so digging is officially over. Only the smaller shafts remain for the smaller machinery.
Is the working plan still to open to passengers in September 2024?
@@FloydBromley That is the plan. Probably the case for all other stations, however I haven't worked on those recently so couldn't say.
State Library is a monster, so it could be the only one in this situation.
Thanks for that info. Really interesting stuff!
@@ondrejsedlak4935 yeah that’s what I’m hearing for the whole tunnel - September planned opening (with the government still officially saying 2025 so they don’t have to explain any unexpected delays)
@@FloydBromley what is the function of the lower levels?
Dude, you did a great job. Keep posting, I am here to support!
That's the plan! Thanks :)
Thank you for a lovely and informative video. There sure are a lot of ancillary buildings at Anzac. Could you do a video on the Melbourne airport rail link please? Thank you. 😊
My pleasure! Yeah, it's crazy how many there are!
I'll think about doing a video on the Airport line, but the problem is that it's all in limbo and very little works have been done so far, so I'm not sure there would be a lot for me to show.
@@melbournerailwayvideos Better to wait until the standoff bw the Labour government and Melb airport is resolved (which had been ongoing for far too long). Why can't they just continue building the skyrail?
Absolutely amazing video!! 👍
Thanks mate. Much appreciated!
Thanks for the interesting video. It will be great when it all opens.
Great video, well done.
Thank you :)
Sydney metro has screen doors along on all the station platforms which works amazing
Not confident it will be the same in Melbourne at first
They are, I've done some work down there.
Nice work dude, put a vest on grab a clipboard and go into the site for a proper look haha
Hahaha. Was so tempted to!
So glad to see my trusty Broady station is up there 🎉
very cool thanks
No worries :)
Awesome and very informative. I actually saw a “Town Hall”test train come through my local station on Tuesday evening but I was already in the car park and couldn’t film it. Thanks for the video👍
Thank you!
It's so exciting how we're already seeing trains with the Town Hall destination shown!
I hope the route 58 trams go back onto domain road. The tracks are still there, even most of the overhead wire is still there. why build those sneaky tracks turning off if they are just going to rust?
My thoughts exactly! I'm remaining optimistic.
That video was good!
Thanks!
@@melbournerailwayvideos You’re welcome!
WERRIBEE LINE MENTIONED 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ 🔥 🔥 🔥
I have herd that Sept. Will be a soft opening to test it with passengers. Will wait and see
Love this update. Hopefully it opens in November so ANZAC station can be used for the GP, Moomba and the ANZAC Day Parade (Why it's designed like the way it is.)
Does anyone know when the Xtrap 2.0 will release on the craigieburn line? Will it release when this project is finished or until further notice, just curious
How’s the construction going with those? Heard there were a few shells being made alr
hopefully trains run more often than 20 minutes on that line, i lived and am moving back to along that line so it'd be great for more capacity
I didn't realise that the Metro tunnel will ruin travel for those commuting on Cranbourne line to and from Southern Cross. I would like to know the current statistics of the volume of passengers from the Sunbury line to/from Southern Cross & Cranbourne line to/from Southern Cross Vs Sunbury line to Cranbourne line. Thanks for sharing. Cheers
I'm so sad there's no station connected to a newly rebuilt Jam factory. I live in South Yarra and will never use this now.
I'm originally from Vancouver where developers would gladly pay the government the whole construction cost to have a train station nearby. This happened in a shopping centre/apartment cluster called Coquitlam Centre.
It would have been great for the developers to chip in, but as rich as developers are here, I doubt many of them would have a spare $1 billion for something like this.
It's just too bad if you live in Sandringham and want to go the University. There's no interchange in South Yarra.
You'll be able to interchange at Flinders St by using the connection into Town Hall, and then onto the uni from there. You would have probably saved a bit of time if there was a connection at South Yarra as the Metro Tunnel will be faster than the existing route, but it's still not horrible.
Great update!
Could you use polarised lenses to reduce window glare in those moving shots?
When life gives you the Jam Factory, make Jamonade.
Thanks. I don't know a lot about photography, but I'll look into them. Thanks for the suggestion!
@@melbournerailwayvideos there are also lens hoods for both cameras and smartphones that you press up against the glass to block out reflections
Arden station isn't finished...it has to have black and white clocks hanging down in the arch with black on yellow timetables above them .Just sayin!.😆
Do we know if the change to the Pak/Cran lines will shorten the trip to the CBD?
You could probably find the answer by diving into some of the planning documents, but I would assume that it would. There will be two stations to Flinders St - same as before. The only difference is that the trains will be running through a tunnel that I believe is designed for 80km/h operation, rather than the existing tracks where trains don't tend to hit speeds close to that.
Still a lot of brutalist concrete that won’t age well or add to good vibes
13:05: Yeah, a lot of the new infrastructure provides pretty awful shelter. It looks good from a distance, but its often so high that it doesn't really provide meaningful shelter (from wind, rain or sunshine). A lot of older stations like eg. Glenferrie are IMO much nicer because the the roof is much lower.
It's nice that the government is doing stuff like this, but it's textbook "built like they don't use it" development - whatever looks good rather than actually IS good :(
It’ll match the forth class they’ve added to Melbourne with the city on stilts.
I believe it’s meant to be open by September I thought?
That's what some contractors are saying. I think that there have been a few small pandemic-related delays that might push that back to November or December, or even longer if testing doesn't go well.
What are the Chiller Plants required for?
Good question! I've never actually thought about that. I suppose the tunnels would get hot from all the braking of the trains and other heat from the trains themselves, so would need to cool down. The London Underground has very warm lines, so I'd imagine they are to prevent something like that from happening here. But that's just my prediction!
Have they extended the Middle Footscray, Tottenham platforms?? Trains will still need to stop at these stations. .. which leads me to believe, we don't really know how it's gonna work.
I'm not sure actually. Maybe they're already long enough somehow.
HCMTs have already run revenue services on the Sunbury line. If they did need extending, it has already been done. I didn't hear about it being needed though.
Good point.
They could open in September 2024 if only 3 stations are complete, with passengers changing at -Richmond- Caulfield to get to Flinders St or City loop.
Insider info?
No just speculation
that would be a bad idea imo, a large % of passengers are heading to the city and they would crowd other lines in the process making the problem the metro tunnel intended to solve worse
@@Anonymousey-gj3lv Multiple stations could be opened by September but they will likely open them all together at the start of 2025
Very well done! I think Arden Street looks like a Soviet Russia Gray drab building. Some colour wouldn't go astray.
Haha it does at the moment. Luckily, they're planning on putting a large mural over it, so it will look a lot more inviting soon!
Mate unless COVID isn’t considered peacetime, there’s been 2 Grand Finals away from the ‘G since the one at Waverley.
Was this comment meant for Phillip Mallis' video?
Anzac is an acronym and should be ANZAC.
Metro 2? What is Metro 2??
It is a proposed rail tunnel running from Newport to Clifton Hill via Southern Cross, Flagstaff and Parkville. There are still no real plans to build it, but Metro 1 was designed with provisions in case it is ever built.
I think the green at ANZAC represents trams and the blue elsewhere represents trains.
You could well be right. I guess it's open to interpretation.
The official representation is that the green of Anzac is for the park, and the blue of Parkville is for the uni/hospital. I certainly think the blue matches the logo of UniMelb almost exactly
@@melbournerailwayvideosNot saying I'm right but thought that was it :)
@@SagealeenaReally, where did you find that? All tram signage is that colour and all train signage is the blue. To be honest I'm not sure if I heard it or just put 2 and 2 together but that's what I thought the colours represented.
@@Sagealeenayeah if you have ever been a patient at Petermac you will know that blue is their colour.
I wish they open before Anzac day so we can go for dawn service
It probably won't be by this Anzac Day, but I think there's a very high chance it will be open by the next!
Thanks for the video,very informative and helpful 🙂
Word is that the CBD stations are further behind than expected, and likely to be delivered late, due to the technical difficulties of the construction. Also, there's a likelihood that everything is finished this year but not opened until 2025, as it would be very difficult to implement all of the line changes over the busy summer period (December 2024 to January 2025).
Interesting. What you're saying sounds very plausible, even if you're probably way more informed than I am. The CBD station do just seem a fair way off!
I don't understand why Arden street station has such a big above ground footprint.
I'd say it's probably just cost savings. Why put all those shops underground, when you can put them at ground for much less?
@@melbournerailwayvideos I feel like a bike / walk path or road over the top and shops in taller buildings to the side would be a more effective use of space.
I agree. I do think they will adding lots of tall buildings to the side, though, with the Arden development plan.
those ancillaries on anzac are fugly. sure to be an eyesore in no time
They could be worse, but they're not exactly pretty either.
They’ve really ruined the vibe. They better cover them with plants or something
Very handy for people who dont have Rolls Royces
Extreme disappointment in the country lines. 1 service a day for central Victoria and it has to shunt backwards to Ballarat half the time or wait at siding near Bacchus marsh. It’s crazy with 1 platform labelled as 4….. Southern cross toilets stink and it’s only 24 years.
How much difference 2 weeks makes, now we know how much over budget this project is , do you know the governments business case that shows how long it will take to pay off this white elephant? How many generations will be in dept?
This is a project that absolutely should be being built, even with the cost blow outs. It will have benefits well worth the costs. What alternative do you propose to this project?
@@melbournerailwayvideos oh I don't know, maybe fix the roads, health and anything else that has been neglected by this government. Again where is the business case for this and the unwanted Westgate tunnel?
Great and informative video. Just one point. There seems to be a trend lately of saying “For all intensive and purposes”. The correct saying is “For all intents and purposes”.
I've never had that pointed out. Didn't even know I was saying it wrong the whole time. Thanks!
Okay, I have read this more than once and I don’t see any difference between the first rendition of the saying and the second one.
Where are these two phrases different?
As it stands, the first phrase is identical to the second one and the comment makes no sense at all.
It was a typo on OC's behalf, but the point they were trying to get across was this. The correct saying is "for all intents and purposes". I said "for all intensive purposes", which is a common mistake. It makes sense too. What the hell is an intensive purpose?
@@melbournerailwayvideos exactly correct. I’ve edited the above. Hilariously when I wrote and posted it, autocorrect changed it from intensive to intents in the first example.
If the government made the same video as you did it would’ve costed at least $46.5m.
No response to my diss track, I see how it is *tsk tsk tsk*
Hard to recover after that
*Promo SM* ⭐
The Metro Rail Tunnel is a waste of time and money, it's not needed, it's been a budget blowout, the project should have been abandoned before it was started.
It's going to be a huge inconvenience for those using the Pakenham and Cranbourne line because the trains on those lines won't be going through South Yarra and Richmond.
What do you propose as an alternative to add much needed capacity to train lines across the network? And do you think it is sustainable to serve places like Parkville and the Shrine only with trams?
I also think you're overestimating the inconvenience on Pakenham and Cranbourne line commuters. How many of them really want to go to South Yarra or Richmond? I suspect not many, and changing trains really isn't that difficult. I think a lot more will benefit from having more frequent services which go to places that were previously not served by the network!
Yes we mist service the Melbourne asian education hub mustnt we
sydney's better
As a city? No.
In terms of public transport? Yes.
A great waste of money with a hugh blow-out cost that Victorians will be paying for decades to come.
Still no trains to the Airport that would serve all Victorians and diesel powered trains to outer suburbs and country areas
what a joke. Typical Labour logic.
You wouldn't be able to make any meaningful upgrades without the Metro Tunnel being built, and that includes the Airport line. There simply wouldn't be enough capacity!
Arden station looks absolutely terrible