WA - Level Crossing Removal

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http://www.metronet.wa.gov.au/projects/level-crossing-removal

Level Crossing Removal

There are 31 vehicle level-crossings on the Transperth network. There has been a policy in place for more than a decade not to increase the net number of crossings.

Removing level crossings along the Midland and Armadale lines has significant community benefits from making it safer for people and vehicles to travel in the area to revitalising local communities with improved land use planning.

The first four level crossings to be removed as part of METRONET are Denny Avenue (Kelmscott), Caledonian Avenue (Maylands), Oats Street (Carlisle) and Wharf Street (Cannington). The first level crossing to go will be Denny Avenue.

There are a number of ways to remove a level crossing. These include elevating or sinking the rail; elevating or sinking the road, a combination of both or closing the crossing.

A review of the options that offer the least road and community impacts during and after construction is underway. A program will be developed, which would allow for ongoing level crossing removal, depending on funding availability.

It is estimated the first four level crossing removals will take up to four years.

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https://twitter.com/MarkMcGowanMP/status/1007078903200952320

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Rail Express --> Demolition commences on Perth level crossing removal


A visual concept of the finished Davis Road underpass. Image: WA Government

Procurement and demolition works have begun on the Denny Avenue level crossing removal project in the Perth suburb of Kelmscott.

Old buildings in the vicinity of the crossing, which the WA State Government referred to as being "notoriously dangerous", are being cleared through the federal- and state-funded public transport program Metronet to make room for its Kelmscott project development. The scope of the demolition includes five state houses on Railway Avenue and Third Avenue.

Statistics from the WA Government state that the boom gates at the Denny Avenue level crossing are down for an average of three hours and seven minutes a day, with excessive wait times leading to risk-taking behaviour from drivers who try to cross the track when the boom gate is down or descending.

Work is set to commence later in the year to replace the crossing through the development of a lowered road and raised rail at Davis Road, which runs parallel to Denny Avenue. The crossing at Denny Avenue will be removed entirely.

The WA government is engaging contractors to help design and construct the $69 million development, which will incorporate a rail and bridge contract and a road and civic infrastructure contract.

"Each package of works has a different risk profile for the contractor, so the decision was made to split them into two design and construct contracts," said WA Transport Minister Rita Saffioti.

"The removal of the Denny Avenue level crossing will greatly improve the daily lives of drivers, pedestrians and cyclists, improving safety and decreasing road congestion in the area."

The chosen contractors will be required to work under the proviso that they keep road and rail disruption in the Kelmscott area to a minimum.

The Denny Avenue project marks an important milestone as the first part of Metronet's level crossing removal program.

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https://twitter.com/metronetperth/status/1171673279372750850

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https://twitter.com/RailExpressNews/status/1229554416820289540

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Rail Express --> Six level crossings removed in latest Metronet works program

Six more level crossing are to go on the Armadale Line in Perth as part of the next major works package in the Metronet project.

The level crossings are at Mint, Oats, Hamilton, Wharf, and William streets and Welshpool Road. All the crossings will involve elevated rail except at Hamilton Street, where land has been reserved for a road over rail solution.

Up to 2.8 kilometres of elevated rail could be constructed, with roads and active travel links created under the rail line.

In addition to the level crossing removals, new stations will be built at Oats Street, Carlisle, and Beckenham and potentially Queens Park. Oats Street Station will replace the current Welshpool station, which will be closed.

WA Transport Minister Rita Saffioti said that removing the level crossings would benefit commuters and the wider community.

"Metronet is also about connecting the community – for the first time in a century this will remove parts of the rail barrier that have separated the communities of Carlisle, East Victoria Park and Cannington," she said.

"Commuters can finally say bye, bye boom gates – we've all felt the pain sitting at a level crossing waiting for one, two, sometimes three trains to pass by."

As design work is just beginning, Saffioti said that she hopes the community will get involved.

"This project will also mean new train stations at Carlisle and Oats Street and potentially Queens Park, giving the local community the opportunity to have their say on what they would like these new stations designs to look like.

"It will create opportunities for new and unique public space and developments around stations, connect our communities and allow us to wave goodbye to boom gates."

$415 million of state funding has been committed to the Mint, Oats, and Welshpool level crossings while funding for the other three is subject to an agreement with the federal government.

WA Premier Mark McGowan said the project will deliver a changed community.

"This plan will transform the Armadale Line as we know it, setting it up for the next 100 years and creating more liveable and vibrant communities linked to METRONET."

The current boom gates are closed 233 times a day for up to six hours per day.

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https://twitter.com/Rita_Saffioti/status/1416594193875570692

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LX removal in SEQ?  Not so much ....

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https://twitter.com/RailExpressNews/status/1430657748887166976

[Gazza]

Cool so that means there will be no level crossings for Airport trains.

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https://twitter.com/ozbob13/status/1512077181400535042

[Jonno]

Notice how they propose rail over road and a new station.  Why can't we have good things here in Queensland. 

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^ they have proper structures to deliver outcomes.  PTA WA is doing an excellent job.

Contrast to the fragmented stuff that goes on in Queensland.  It is a sad joke.

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https://twitter.com/metronetperth/status/1592758141187346433

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https://x.com/metronetperth/status/1721781543096705334?s=20