http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/wrong-way-turn-back-anger-at-plan-to-shut-busy-road-to-remove-level-crossing-20160228-gn5oya.html

Abbotts rd is now more or less used as a rat run so people don’t go down Greens Rd. Although now it too filled with traffic as well.

#1, the overhead across the South Gippsland Highway was cut a few years back, and no longer crosses over the highway.

#2, Yes, the line needed to be extended to Cranbourne East, for the Civic Center many years ago.

#3, There is urgent need for a new station at Greens Road. There are three bus routes at different cross roads with Greens road, including along the South Gippsland Highway right near the railway line.

#4, many in local council where very keen on the Cranbourne bypass road, and land is held in reserve for just such a road to be built. But, as said above, most of the traffic now goes via Pakenham.

#5, Thompsons road was a popular route for me to get home from my old haunt of Keysbourgh. It was a very busy road back then, and does need duplication.

#6, I can not believe there is still now traffic lights on the Hallam road corner. To link up Hallam road and Evans road, would make a great major road to run between Hallam and Pearcedale.

Good points around the difficulty serving the dispersed industrial areas of the south-east, and thanks for the Google Maps traffic data tip (I’d forgotten all about that one).

Good point about the Cranbourne Bypass – I’ve given up on it as a route to Phillip Island, and switched to the Koo Wee Rup Bypass instead.

Google Streetview from January 2008 still shows the overhead in place, but covered tracks:

https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-38.1007299,145.2826382,3a,75y,155.34h,80.6t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sMjuqnT_5s7nWQziZsdiDMw!2e0!5s20080101T000000!7i3328!8i1664

With the new stabling yard being commissioned in October 2008:

http://vicsig.net/infrastructure/location/Cranbourne

Cranbourne East should have been built over a decade ago. It is much needed.

Building a grade separation when the crossing is initially built is much more efficient than going back later to grade separate. I believe the no new level crossings policy is state-wide.

I am sure that the South Gippsland Highway will be grade separated at Cranbourne eventually.

I am fairly sure that the Cranbourne Bypass is unlikely to be built in the foreseeable future. In times past it would have avoided most to all of the bellow 100km/h sections of the Highway but it is now 80km/h all the way to the South Gippsland Freeway and the development is soon to encroach on the Highway beyond the end of the Cranbourne Bypass reservation and as such the only lower speed section bypassed would be the short section of 60km/h through the Cranbourne shops. There is no reservation for the Cranbourne bypass to connect to the existing Freeway or even its planned future extension along the Westernport Highway. The bypass reservation is now surrounded by housing on all sides and thus there would be some complaint about its construction. And the clincher is that the Highway through Cranbourne is decreasingly the primary route to South Gippsland because, since the Pakenham Bypass opened, the traffic has cut across to the Princess freeway as that is a faster route and Koo Wee Rup has thus been bypassed because of the increase in traffic and the plan is to eventually upgrade Healesville-Koo Wee Rup Rd to freeway standard as far as the Pakenham bypass, completely avoiding Cranbourne.