Leaked documents detail a need for slower braking and accelerating at new station on the $14 billion project to limit interference with nearby specialist health equipment.
Trains in Melbourne’s $14 billion Metro Tunnel will not be able to run at full speed near the new Parkville station, a leaked government report shows, under a plan to limit interference with sensitive cancer and medical scanning equipment.
At one research centre in the precinct, the Peter Doherty Institute, the train tunnel runs just 20 metres from an ultra-sensitive microscope in the institute’s basement, and has caused major issues. The report says that, “based on advice from international experts and modelling of electromagnetic interference levels”, mitigation strategies will include an amperage limit “in the electrical section through Parkville, restricting High Capacity Metro Trains acceleration and deceleration performance”.
Current strategies also do not account for the possibility of a second Metro Tunnel eventually connecting to Parkville and any increase in demand for power from the nearby tram network. “We are working collaboratively with... the hospital and the other institutions in the Parkville precinct to both continue to deliver world class patient care and also deliver the Metro tunnel,” she said.Victorian Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas on Wednesday said she was pleased with the way mitigation strategies for sensitive health equipment had progressed, with work still underway with hospitals and manufacturers.
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