Today premier Daniel Andrews announced the planning and design for a Caulfield - Monash - Rowville tram. Read the release here: https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/new-tram-connect-citys-south-east
It was an election year, interest rates were super low and project cost escalation wasn't much of a thing. It seemed that you could build everything for almost nothing.
After it announced the vastly bigger Suburban Rail Loop (which also served Monash) later in the year the government stopped talking about the tram.
This Age article from 29 May 2019 is paywalled but the headline: Fears Caulfield to Rowville tram link on ice tells everything. Both Monash University and Chadstone Shopping Centre's owner has backed a private proposal for a 'trackless tram' but without state government support it's not going anywhere.
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