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Fishermans Bend was meant to house 80,000 people. What happened?
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this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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The State's current debt, higher priority projects and the City of Melbourne's inability to plan their way out of a cardboard box without developer intiative has meant that the Fishermans Bend development has been conveniently dropped.
It would be another Southbank. Developers pad their pockets and some sterile, poorly planned and poorly built apartment blocks get dumped in a criss cross of poorly planned streets. Fisherman's ned is near nothing of interest, just would be high end suburban sprawl in contaminated soil.
But why are they turning more of the Upfield line into an elevated railway when they can’t even deliver on promised light rail for Fisherman’s Bend? Some of the level crossings are still a pain, but the traffic flows a lot better now that there are a few more major east-west roads crossing the Upfield line without level crossings.