By Brendan Rees
Passengers travelling from Cranbourne to Seaford will now be going a new way under a proposed new bus route.
Cranbourne MP Jude Perera announced route 760 on Friday 24 August which he says will provide an important link between Frankston and Cranbourne train lines, ensuring the community has access to these stations and areas like Carrum Downs.
Mr Perera said a timetable was being developed with community consultation and encouraged residents to attend an information session that will take place on Wednesday 12 September, between 11am-2pm outside Priceline at Carrum Downs Regional Shopping Centre.
It’s proposed the new daily route will run every 40 minutes on weekdays, and hourly on weekday evenings and on the weekend.
It will run from Seaford Station along Seaford Road, Ballarto, McCormicks and Hall roads, Cranbourne-Frankston roads, Sladen Street, through the Cranbourne Park Shopping Centre, ending at Cranbourne Station.
“Route 760 will have priority connections with train services arriving and departing at Seaford Station and with arriving and departing services at Cranbourne Station,” he said.
It’s expected the new timetable will become available about a month prior to the bus route starting – which has yet to be confirmed.
The information session will allow residents the opportunity to speak directly with the transport planning team and see route maps.
An online fact sheet, map and survey is also available at getinvolved.transport.vic.gov.au/route760 or call 1800 800 007. The survey can be submitted before Sunday 16 September.
Shadow Minister for Public Transport David Davis said the new bus route announcement was a “death rattle” and made under pressure by the “ineffectual member for Cranbourne.”
He said the Liberals have announced additional bus services to accompany the extensions from Cranbourne train line to Cranbourne East and Clyde as well as the extension of the Frankston line to Baxter.
“Labor has been in power for 15 of the last 19 years. It’s a tired Government, only now belatedly being forced to respond to the community’s desperate cry for more buses.”
The Liberals will hold a Carrum/Mordialloc bus services forum on 11 September at the Chelsea RSL at 6.30pm regarding local public transport needs.
Mr Perera said while in Government the Liberals “turned their backs on our local area when it came to trains and buses, leaving the community “without any access to important places of interest.”
“In one term of Government Labor has introduced 11 new or enhanced bus routes into our local area with this important proposed Bus Route to be our twelfth,” he said.
