Every set of boom gates is now gone from the Pakenham, Cranbourne and Sunbury lines in Melbourne.
The final set of boom gates on the Cranbourne and Pakenham lines at Webster Street, Dandenong has been dismantled, and the road is now permanently closed at the rail line.
It follows the Sunbury Line becoming boom gate free earlier this year, with eight sets of boom gates removed.
This milestone means trains can travel almost 100 kilometres across Melbourne’s rail network without any boom gates – the entire Metro Tunnel rail corridor, from East Pakenham and Cranbourne in Melbourne’s south east to Sunbury in the north west, when the tunnel opens in December.
This will also allow more trains to run on these lines in the future, without creating extra congestion or delays for road users, the Victorian Government said.
“Getting rid of all 35 boom gates sets along the Metro Tunnel rail corridor has eased congestion for more than half a million motorists that used these dangerous crossings each weekday and eliminated a total of 23 hours of boom gate down time in the morning peak,” a government update reads.
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