Well, the Southern Cross escalator is out of action again. For now...
The escalator leading to platforms nine and 10 has been out of action for a month, while station management scrambled to get a temporary fix in place while a part is created from scratch and flown over from Europe.By Wednesday, no doubt to the great relief of both passengers and station staff, the escalator was back up and running. However, it was to be but a brief respite.
The escalator was again causing frustration by Thursday morning peak hour, this time with a minor handrail issue forcing its temporary closure.The escalator was back in operation just before 9am, but by 9.30am was stopped again.Paul Rovere When passengers used the working escalator on Wednesday for the first time in a month, it was presumed to be a permanent fix. But it's understood it was a temporary solution.The month-long outage had caused peak hour delays for frustrated commuters on the Hurstbridge, Mernda, Belgrave, Lilydale, Alamein and Glen Waverley lines.The debacle has sparked a conversation about how the station can cater for increasing numbers of passengers.
By 2031, the station's operators expect the number of passengers passing through the station to increase by an extra 100,000 a day. The Andrews government last month knocked back a $300 million proposed upgrade to Southern Cross to help ease platform overcrowding.
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