Wednesday, 3 December 2025

 Sheena WATT (Northern Metropolitan) (19:46): (2208) My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Transport Infrastructure, and it relates to the new Metro Tunnel stations. Last Sunday Arden, Parkville, State Library, Town Hall and Anzac began welcoming passengers, and they mark a significant change in how people will move across our city. These stations are the result of years of planning, designing and construction, and their opening represents another moment when our Labor government is delivering transformational infrastructure for Victorians. These stations will serve a wide range of Victorians every day – students travelling to classes, hospital staff working long shifts, families navigating prams, older people needing clear and reliable access and visitors finding their way through the CBD will all depend on these new spaces working well. These new stations are part of daily life for many, and so their accessibility is important. How people enter, navigate and move through these new stations will have a big impact on their experience from the very beginning. These new stations introduce a different kind of space for passengers, with deeper platforms and larger concourse areas. These world-class stations include features that are intended to support accessibility at every stage of the journey. As thousands of Victorians begin using them every day, clear navigation and reliable connections will make a great deal of difference to people as they move through the network. The action I seek is for the minister to provide information on some of the ways that these new stations are leading the way for accessibility and are designed to ensure that passengers’ diverse needs are met, so that I can communicate that to people with accessibility needs in the Northern Metropolitan Region.