HUME: ‘Re-open Beveridge Station’
Northern Metropolitan Region MLC Evan Mulholland (pictured) has called on the State Government to fund the reopening of the Beveridge Railway Station.
Mr Mulholland said Beveridge has “had a strong history of rail infrastructure dating back to 1872, before it was cruelly closed by the Cain Labor Government, with the station demolished by the Kirner Labor Government in 1991.”.
Mr Mulholland said the Allan Labor Government must “undo this historic Labor wrong by reopening the Beveridge railway station.”
“Last year, the State Government announced that Mitchell Shire would be expected to more than triple its housing stock by a massive 312 per cent.
“A few months ago the State Government approved between Beveridge and Wallan 15,000 homes. That is 50,000 people.”
Mr Mulholland criticised the Government for providing “no plans for how these residents are going to commute or get around the local area by funding new infrastructure – not one cent for new infrastructure.”
“The Government has consistently neglected Beveridge, they wait 45 minutes in the morning to get off Lithgow St [calling it] Kalkallo mark II, where the government has not learned its lessons in delivering growth suburbs.”
“It has completely botched the delivery of growth suburbs. The population of Beveridge has increased by nearly 20 times since the Cain and Kirner Government closed the railway station,” Mr Mulholland said.