Connecting our Neighbourhoods
Project cost: $11.73M
State Government ask: $5.85M
We have a significant opportunity to strengthen connections within Frankston City and its neighbouring municipalities by enhancing our walking and cycling network. By closing the missing links between existing paths and improving connections between key suburbs, we can create a more accessible and cohesive region.
In addition to supporting community health outcomes, strengthening social connections and easing traffic congestion and car parking pressure, these projects will boost tourism and stimulate economic growth.
Council has already committed $5.85M million funding through its Long Term Infrastructure Plan.
Did you know?
Frankston City is one of the most car-dependent cities in Melbourne with 92,000 car trips of under 3km per day. Creating more walkable neighbourhoods and a greater cycling network will help the city grow more sustainability and protect the liveability that makes Frankston great.
SUP projects:
Robinsons Road, Langwarrin
Connect Baxter Trail to the Peninsula Link trail along Robinsons Road, creating safer journeys for local students (Bayside Christian College has more than 500 students), and enabling greater visitor journeys (seeking $1.25 million towards a total project cost of $2.5 million).
Eel Race Road, Seaford
Upgrade and extend the Eel Race Road path from Station Street to Patterson River Secondary College, providing safer journeys for 1200 students while connecting Frankston and Kingston (seeking $1.8 million towards a total project cost of $3.63 million).
Baxter-Tooradin Road, Baxter
Connect Baxter Park Recreation Reserve to the Peninsula Link Trail along Baxter-Tooradin Road, linking the busy Baxter Park Recreation Reserve, home to sports clubs with more than 1200 members, with the Peninsula Link Trail, a major shared path spine connecting Melbourne to the Mornington Peninsula. (seeking 750,000 towards a total project cost of $1.5 million).
Frankston–Dandenong Road, Carrum Downs
Construct a new path along Frankston-Dandenong Road from Boundary Road to Thompsons Road, servicing two places of worship, the industrial precinct along Boundary Road, Carrum Downs Recreation Reserve as well as the residential precinct south of Wedge Road (seeking $800,000 towards a total project cost of $1.6 million).
Fletcher Road, Frankston
Construct a new path along Fletcher Road from Beach Street to Baxter Trail, connecting the centre of Frankston and Monash University (4000 students), Chisholm TAFE (12,000 students) and the new 12-storey Peninsula University Hospital. (seeking $1.25 million towards a total project cost of $2.5 million).
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Resident Testimonials
“The Frankston Baxter trail comes to an abrupt end here. It’s too dangerous to get across the road to the CBD.”
“With more people cycling on Robinsons Road, where many teenagers live who all attend local schools, it’s time for the existing path to be transformed into a bike path, so that you don’t need to look back over your shoulder to see if traffic coming behind can see you!”