Q: We have this train station called Huntingdale in the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne. It’s served by both the Cranbourne and Pakenham lines. What should we build next to it?
A: A golf course called the Huntingdale Golf Club.
Q: Okay, and what will we build next to that?
A: A golf course called the Metropolitan Golf Club.
Q: But what about this new Monash University that we want to build, where thousands of people will work and study every day?
A: Let’s put that away from the train line, on the far side of Dandenong Rd.
Q: How will people get there?
A: By car or bus.
Q: What about this new Chadstone Shopping Centre, which will be expanded to be the largest in the Southern Hemisphere with a gross leasable area of 237,441 square metres?
A: It also goes on the far side of Dandenong Rd.
Q: How will people get there?
A: By car or bus.
Q: Okay, but what about VFL Park/Waverley Park, the new 70,000 seat stadium we want to upgrade to a capacity of 150,000?
A: Let’s put that even further away from the train, past Springvale Rd.
Q: How will people get there?
A: Slowly. By car.
Q: What about this new suburb of Rowville, which will have a population over 33,000?
A: We’ll build it as single family detached houses even further away from the trains, past Stud Rd.
Q: So you’ll build these places many kilometres from the train line, and a golf course next to the existing train station?
A: Correct.
Q: So how do you expect the golfers get to the golf course?
A: What a silly question! By car, of course!
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