Rowville-Rail-Study-Final-Stage-1-Report-FINAL
Rowville-Rail-Study-Final-Stage-1-Report-FINAL
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2.4 This study<br />
<strong>Final</strong> <strong>Stage</strong> 1 Feasibility <strong>Report</strong><br />
History of <strong>Rowville</strong> rail line<br />
The Baillieu Government commissioned the <strong>Rowville</strong> <strong>Rail</strong> <strong>Study</strong> after winning the 2010 State<br />
Election. We believe this is the first time that a State Government has looked seriously at the<br />
proposal since it was raised in the 1969 plan, 42 years ago. A consequence of this is that a<br />
route has never been gazetted or protected, and extensive development has taken place in<br />
the area since the early seventies.<br />
2.5 Policy context<br />
The State Government is developing a new metropolitan planning strategy to address future<br />
growth, development patterns and infrastructure needs in Melbourne, including transport.<br />
The Transport Integration Act 2010 (TIA) provides a set of policy objectives for transport and<br />
land use, with a strong emphasis on integration, under the following headings:<br />
Social and economic inclusion<br />
Economic prosperity<br />
Environmental sustainability<br />
Integration of transport and land use<br />
Efficiency, coordination and reliability<br />
Safety and health and wellbeing<br />
The intent of the TIA is to ensure that, through a series of objectives and decision-making<br />
principles, transport and land use decisions are made in an integrated context to ensure that<br />
real progress is made across all six of the above areas.<br />
In the absence of a current metropolitan planning strategy, we have appraised the <strong>Rowville</strong><br />
rail link against the headings of the TIA in order to understand and, as far as possible,<br />
quantify its effects to aid the decision-making process. The results of this appraisal are given<br />
in Chapter 8.<br />
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