Population propagandist, The Guardian, has a special today on the people deluge that has drowned the outer Melbourne suburb of Cranbourne:
Traffic jams start early in Cranbourne. By 4pm parents on their way home from the school pick-up have joined the first wave of commuters returning home from the city, pouring off the M420 at Lynbrook, some 42km from the Melbourne CBD.
They queue up at roadworks and drive past road-widening signs on their way out to the sprawling new estates, colour-coordinated new communities with names such as Allanvale, Pavilion, Highgrove and Eliston. The roadworks are a sign of progress but at the moment they’re a cause of further delay. And with 60 new families moving to the area each week, it’s a sisyphean task to keep infrastructure ahead of population growth.
It is here, in the rapidly growing suburbs of Melbourne’s south-east known as the sandbelt seats, that the Victorian state election on 24 November will be won or lost. And in the electorate of Cranbourne, the fastest-growing in the state, with a 33% boost in enrolment since 2014, it will be won or lost on transport.
Rapidly growing suburban and peri-urban seat on Melbourne’s southeastern fringe. Fastest growing electorate in the state; one of the fastest growing regions in the country. Covers Cranbourne, Cranbourne East, Cranbourne West, Cranbourne South, Clyde, Clyde North, Lyndhurst, Lynbrook and Botanic Ridge.
…“Transport has been the big number one ticket item,” says the mayor of the city of Casey, Geoff Ablett. “It’s just traffic gridlock if you happen to go into Melbourne.”
…The station car park is full by 7am, the carriages a sweaty game of sardines after only three or four stops. According to the 2016 census, only 4.7% of commuters take the train to work, while 79.2% either drive individually or carpool.
“You have people who buy in Clyde … and on the map it’s got a station, but there’s no station,” Ablett says. “They’re spending four or six hours a day in the car where they’re leaving in the dark and getting home in the dark.”
Building that rail extension is a key promise of both the government and opposition. The Liberal party has pledged to extend the line and duplicate it back up to Dandenong at the same time; while Labor has pledged $750m to begin immediate work on duplicating the line and allocated $7m in the 2018 budget to plan the extension.
This is pure class warfare with The Guardian’s bourgeois perpetrators pretending to care. This is the story for the entire outer ring of Melbourne today. Crush-loaded by the unholy alliance of the urbanisation growth lobby and the immigration left. As infrastructure Australia has said repeatedly, it will NEVER be fixed and gets worse in every build-out scenario:
Just yesterday, economist Peter Brain, transport expert Professor John Stanley and social resilience researcher Janet Stanley from Melbourne University presented research warning that Melbourne has become divided into ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’:
[The research] found the average income received by residents of working age in six council areas on Melbourne’s fringe – Cardinia, Casey, Hume, Melton, Whittlesea and Wyndham – was in 1992 above the state average. By 2017, wages in those areas had fallen to 21 per cent below the Victorian average.
The six outer-urban council areas identified are where population growth has been strongest in Melbourne, along with the city centre.
The fall in average income was, in part, due to people being unable to easily access well-paid jobs, and because of the difficulty of getting around suburbs without adequate roads and public transport.
“It shows without a shadow of a doubt that when your population growth is over 2 or 2.5 per cent a year you really needed to have substantial investment in infrastructure,” Professor John Stanley said… Professor Stanley added that there needs to be a “community conversation about a sustainable rate of population growth”.
Honestly, the denizens of Cranbourne should have tarred and feathered the fake left, inner-city wankers come to gawk at them.
