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Kittens an oarsome second PT LEO surf lifesavers have proved their surf skills by winning water and beach events at this year’s Victorian Masters Championships at Lorne. The team was among many competitors from the Mornington Peninsula representing the Mount Martha, Portsea and Pt Leo clubs. In the gruelling, and spectacular, 180+ years female Kittens surf boat race sweep Anthony Davis and rowers Tarena Murray, Gemma McDonald, Lucy Kryiacou and substitute Emily Mansfield (from the Port Campbell club), steered their way into second place behind Port Campbell and ahead of Williamstown. “Pt Leo’s masters in the surf” Page 4
Shire’s ‘all aboard’ for electric train Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire Council has agreed to lobby for electric trains to run between Frankston and Langwarrin as the first stage of a service to Hastings. The estimated $650m to $850m cost for six kilometres of double track would include parking for thousands of cars, allowing peninsula residents to park and catch a metro train to
Frankston and beyond. At its second last meeting for 2021 (7 December) the shire’s councillors voted unanimously to lobby for a twostaged approach to having an electric train service to Hastings. Cr Paul Mercurio (endorsed Labor Party candidate for Hastings at the November state election) successfully moved that the shire “endorse an advocacy campaign” for an electrified double rail track from Frankston to Langwarrin, while still seeking state and federal money to extend the elec-
tric service to Hastings. Cr Steve Holland, who seconded the move, said: “As far as I can tell, the only thing holding up this project is the state Labor government, all other state and federal parties are committed to the rail extension. So, any advocacy campaign is likely to centre around the state Labor candidates on the peninsula." At the same time as it presses for the Langwarrin development, the shire also wants the state government to improve the diesel rail service to Stony Point, with trains running every 20
minutes during peak times and 40 minutes “all day”. Councillors also want “immediate improvements” to public transport in the Hastings area. If it does get the green light from governments, the Langwarrin station car park and possible bus terminus would be on former Telstra-owned land in McClelland Drive, close to Peninsula Link. In the lead-up to the shire’s changed position on primarily wanting the electric train service to Hastings, council-
lors were briefed by Ginevra Hosking, CEO of the lobby group Committee for Greater Frankston. In a media release, Ms Hosking said shire councillors had unanimously supported extending the line because “they know it will form the backbone of our region’s future transportation network”. “Electrifying the track to Langwarrin is an immediately achievable first step as there is already $225 million of Commonwealth government funds guaranteed in the federal Budget.” Continued Page 10
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