Posts Tagged ‘trees’

A tree falls for Melbourne Airport Rail

You can’t expect to build a multi-billion dollar rail project without having to chop down a few trees. But in the case of Melbourne Airport Rail they’ve needlessly chopped down a number of trees in Melbourne’s west just because they too narrow minded to adjust their plans. Service relocations at Sunshine The north-east side of […]

LXRA’s stuck station building at Mont Albert

This is the story of how the Level Crossing Removal Authority contractors tried and failed to deliver a prefabricated station building to the new Union station, part of the Surrey Hills and Mont Albert level crossing removal project. Working within a constrained railway corridor, there as no space to build a new station clear of […]

Trees in a Bunnings Warehouse car park

Car parks are usually known for their asphalt, not trees, but the Bunnings Warehouse in Sunshine tried their best. Google Street View, September 2016 With trees flanking the rows of parking. Google Maps, July 2016 But as part of the 2017 expansion of the store, every tree in the car park was chopped down. Google […]