Extracts from the City of Casey Website
The campaign was launched on the 31st of January 2018 and is said to be the City of Casey’s biggest advocacy campaign ever, calling on the State Government and Opposition to Commit to Casey, to fix the region’s roads and extend Cranbourne Rail.
Launching the campaign, City of Casey Mayor Cr Geoff Ablett said that “fixing roads and extending rail will create jobs, improve access to essential services, ease cost of living pressures and help the local community and economy thrive.” He went on to say that “investment in Casey infrastructure is well overdue” and that “urgent action is needed”.
It is estimated that fixing Casey’s roads and extending Cranbourne Rail will boost connections to jobs and services, create more than 18,000 much-needed jobs, inject $1.5 billion into the local economy and $3.4 billion into the wider Australian economy.
The Commit to Casey campaign proposes a series of upgrades that include a combination of new links, widening works, duplications, intersection upgrades and level crossing removals, including:
• Southern Dandenong Bypass through to South Gippsland Freeway and South Gippsland Freeway / M1 Freeway
• Pound Road – Greaves Road – O’Shea Road route
• Narre Warren – Cranbourne Road, from Thompsons Road to South Gippsland Highway
• Berwick – Cranbourne Road Route from Thompsons Road through Pattersons Road to Narre Warren Cranbourne Road
• Glasscocks Road from South Gippsland Highway to Dandenong - Frankston Road
• Thompson Road from Clyde Road to Cardinia Road
• The rail upgrade includes:
• Duplication of the Cranbourne Rail line from Dandenong
• Extension of the Cranbourne Rail Line to Clyde North
For more information about the Commit to Casey campaign and a map of the much-needed road and rail upgrades, visit the Commit to Casey website.
