Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) is a 90-kilometre orbital rail line through Melbourne’s middle suburbs which will connect all major radial rail lines. The orbital route is planned to connect Cheltenham in Melbourne’s south-west to Werribee in the north-east, via the airport. This integrated transport infrastructure and planning project is designed to deliver more transport and more homes as the city grows towards 9 million people by the 2050s.
SRL will be a catalyst for more sustainable living and growth for greater Melbourne. The new stations will serve as key drivers for investment, bringing more homes and jobs to the surrounding neighbourhoods. SRL will reduce congestion on Melbourne’s road and public transport networks and open up access to key destinations across the city including major job centres, health services and education institutions. People living in outer Melbourne and regional Victoria will have more choice and accessibility to work and social opportunities in greater Melbourne without the need to travel through the Melbourne CBD.
SRL East is the first stage of the wider SRL project. It will deliver six new SRL stations at Cheltenham, Clayton, Monash, Glen Waverley, Burwood, and Box Hill – connecting these major employment, health, education and retail destinations in Melbourne’s east and south-east by a modern 26-kilometre underground rail line.
Urbis is working with the Aurecon, Jacobs and Mott MacDonald (AJM) joint venture as the technical advisor to Suburban Rail Loop Authority (SRLA). Urbis’ precinct advisory services team are supporting SRLA through project development, procurement and delivery of integrated precincts and transport infrastructure that will help optimise the benefits across the entire SRL corridor. This includes providing precinct visioning and strategy, urban planning, economics, urban design, transport planning, real estate advisory, spatial analytics and creative design services to enable housing, jobs, services, amenities and investment to be delivered in the right locations to support communities.
References: Aurecon | Architectus | RPS