Fishermans Bend was meant to house 80,000 people. What happened?
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It really upsets me how easily this country could house everyone, but doesn't.
@briongloid maybe somebody is recognising that area will probably be underwater by 2050?
https://coastal.climatecentral.org/map/12/144.9309/-37.8432/?theme=warming&map_type=multicentury_slr_comparison&basemap=roadmap&elevation_model=best_available&lockin_model=levermann_2013&refresh=true&temperature_unit=C&warming_comparison=%5B%222.0%22%2C%224.0%22%5D
So beach front property then!
@tfyoung yup, you won't need to worry about trams, you'll need a boat.
Get the ferry lads in on it
Sell it to Aquaman when you're ready to move to higher ground.
I had a friend who lived there years ago. The wall with the light switch wobbled.
I think it’ll probably take the university being active for anything to happen there - you need an anchor employer and consumers.
I worry it’ll end up like docklands - some ai generated idea of what a city should be
The plan's still underway, isn't it? It's weird that the tram line hasn't been started. I'd love to move over there if they bloody well added the tram.
Forget a tram, they need a train. If you can’t get to the end of fisherman’s bend from either flinders street or southern cross within 15 minutes, it’s DOA
Disagree. Tram'll be fine. I live at the end of the 11 tram line right now, it's really convenient. If it's a bit longer, it'll be great for getting to DFO by tram and I'll be able to consider moving there since it'll be super close to my office.
Can we just blow a hole in the side of the casino and put the train line back how it was?
The State's current debt, higher priority projects and the City of Melbourne's inability to plan their way out of a cardboard box without developer intiative has meant that the Fishermans Bend development has been conveniently dropped.
It would be another Southbank. Developers pad their pockets and some sterile, poorly planned and poorly built apartment blocks get dumped in a criss cross of poorly planned streets. Fisherman's bend is near nothing of interest, just would be high end suburban sprawl in contaminated soil.
But why are they turning more of the Upfield line into an elevated railway when they can’t even deliver on promised light rail for Fisherman’s Bend? Some of the level crossings are still a pain, but the traffic flows a lot better now that there are a few more major east-west roads crossing the Upfield line without level crossings.
It really upsets me how easily this country could house everyone, but doesn't.