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Not only are we making local communities safer and Melbourne’s traffic less congested - we’re also committed to urban renewal during construction and creating new community open spaces.

Turnham Avenue in Rosanna has been reinstated to two lanes of traffic.

More than 1000 people turned out for the Rosanna Community Fun Day on Saturday 11 August to celebrate the early opening of Rosanna Station.

The brand new Rosanna Station car park is now open to commuters.

As work nears completion at Rosanna Station, we were pleased to present the final landscaping designs to locals at our final community drop-in session on 12 July.

When the new Rosanna Station opens on Friday 4 May it will become a Host Station, with staff available from 6.30am–10.30am on weekdays.

From tomorrow, normal train services will resume on the Hurstbridge line and passengers will be able to catch trains from the new Rosanna Station.

We’ve removed the Lower Plenty Road level crossing and are taking the opportunity to make the precinct safer for pedestrians and vehicles by improving transport movements and local connections.

To ensure a safe return to train services on the Hurstbridge line, the bus replacements have been extended.

We are halfway through the longest construction blitz the Level Crossing Removal Authority has undertaken. And we have achieved a lot!

Locals in Rosanna would have struggled to miss the bright green crane hard a work installing the rail bridge over Lower Plenty Road.

Two more level crossings have been removed – never to hold up traffic again! The boom gates at Grange Road in Alphington and Lower Plenty Road in Rosanna were dismantled early Saturday morning.

It's day four of the 44-day construction blitz and we are working 24 hours a day, seven days a week to renovate the Hurstbridge rail line.

A major 44 day construction blitz will see the removal of two level crossings well ahead of schedule and will mean less disruption for rail and road users in Melbourne’s north east.

From 8:30pm on Friday 6 October, the existing Rosanna Station will close and in its place a brand new station will be built, opening in March 2018.

On Tuesday 26 September, the Lower Plenty Road level crossing removal team will be hosting a community pop-up to unveil the final design for the new Rosanna Station.

Work has begun to remove the level crossings at Lower Plenty Road in Rosanna and Grange Road in Alphington, and duplicate a 1.2 kilometre section of the Hurstbridge line.

Thanks to everyone who joined the conversation on potential urban design solutions for the Rosanna and Heidelberg areas.

The contract to remove the dangerous and congested level crossing on Lower Plenty Road, rebuild Rosanna Station and duplicate the Hurstbridge line has been signed, with work to start in the coming mon

The design options for removing the Rosanna level crossing have now been released.

An alliance of Laing O'Rourke, Fulton Hogan and Jacobs is set to design and construct the Hurstbridge line upgrade and two level crossing removals.

The removal of two more level crossings – Grange Road in Alphington and Lower Plenty Rd in Rosanna – will start next year as part of a package of works that includes duplicating the Hurstbridge line.