Tarneit train station
Ms CONNOLLY (Tarneit) (10:03): It gives me a great deal of pleasure to be here in this place announcing that at long last works have finally commenced on upgrading the car park at Tarneit train station. If you ask anyone in my community, there is no doubt this expansion was much needed. Tarneit is the second-busiest V/Line station in this state, just behind Southern Cross, with over 2300 commuters each and every single day. These works will expand the car park’s capacity by a whopping 50 per cent, adding an additional 500 new and upgraded parking spaces to make it easier to get to the station and get a car park. This is something that Tarneit commuters have been waiting for for a very long time. It is a conversation I have been having almost every day since being elected to this place in 2018, and I am so glad to see that these spaces are now becoming a reality.
Of course this is not the only solution, with more bus routes and services having been added to the network over the past couple of years so that more people can catch a bus to the station instead of driving and having to park their car. I am very pleased to add that we are building a new bus interchange with these works to make it easier for those buses to actually go ahead and access the station. Having got onto the platform, we are making it easier to get onto the train with three nine-carriage train services to operate between Wyndham Vale and Southern Cross at key times of the day. This is about the Andrews Labor government delivering for the west.