Level Crossing Removal Project.

The need to remove urban level crossings is a legacy of railways having been built expeditiously without concern for their performance. Level crossing removals allow fast, frequent rail services unrestricted by road-based transport. Level crossing removals focus attention on the fine grain of building more sustainable cities. Melbourne's first metropolitan strategy, the 1929 Plan for General Development, identified sixty-six level crossings in urgent need of removal from the 155 then in existence across the commission's study area. [Extracted from the article]