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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