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Clyde North
Clyde North is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 46 km south-east of the central business district, located within the City of Casey local government area. Clyde North recorded a population of 31,681 at the 2021 census. History It was named after the Clyde Creek, a watercourse between two early pastoral runs. The stream flowed eastwards to the Koo Wee Rup Swamp about six kilometres away. It is thought that the name was inspired by the River Clyde, Scotland. Clyde Post Office opened on 25 January 1864. In 1915 it was renamed Clyde North, when Clyde Railway Station office was renamed Clyde. Today The area to the west of Berwick-Cranbourne Road is mostly within the Urban Growth Boundary, with a residential development known as "Cascades On Clyde" and several others, under construction, having begun in late 2007. Parks Victoria are also investigating the creation of a new regional park, on land bounded by Berwick-Cranbourne and Thompson Roads. The area of Clyde N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Casey
The City of Casey is a local government area in Victoria, Australia in the outer south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Casey is Victoria's most populous municipality, with a 2021 population of 365,239. It has an area of . The city is named after Lord Casey, the 16th Governor-General of Australia, and was formed in 1994 by the merger of most of the City of Berwick with parts of the Shire of Cranbourne (including Cranbourne itself), and the Churchill Park Drive estate within the City of Knox. Geography Casey spreads from the base of the Dandenong Ranges in the north to the shoreline of Western Port in the south. It features a wide variety of geographical features, due to its outer metropolitan location. The north, in the foothills of the Dandenongs, is primarily made up of large blocks of land used for grazing, with some small vineyards in operation. An Urban Growth Boundary has been in place since 2005 to protect this area from future residential subdivision. South of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Australian Census
The 2021 Australian census, simply called the 2021 Census, was the eighteenth national Census of Population and Housing in Australia. The 2021 Census took place on 10 August 2021, and was conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). It had a response rate of 96.1%, up from the 95.1% at the 2016 census. The total population of the Commonwealth of Australia was counted as 25,422,788, an increase of 8.6 per cent or 2,020,896 people over the previous 2016 census. Results from the 2021 census were released to the public on 28 June 2022 from the Australian Bureau of Statistics website. A small amount of additional 2021 census data was released in October 2022 and in 2023. Australia's next census is scheduled to take place in 2026. The census was undertaken during the COVID-19 pandemic. It therefore provided a clear snapshot of how the pandemic impacted Australian society. Overview In Australia, completing the census is compulsory for all people in Australia on census ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berwick Railway Station, Melbourne
Berwick railway station is a commuter and regional railway station on the Pakenham and Gippsland lines, which are part of the Melbourne railway network and Regional railway network. It serves the south-eastern suburb of Berwick, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Berwick station is a ground-level premium station, featuring an island platform. It opened on 8 October 1877. History Berwick station opened on 8 October 1877, when the railway line from Dandenong was extended to Pakenham. Like the suburb itself, the station was named after Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England, the birthplace of Robert Gardiner, who was an early leaseholder in the area. In 1956, the line between Berwick and Officer was duplicated, with a signal panel also installed at the station in that year. In 1962, duplication between Berwick and Narre Warren was provided. In 1970, flashing light signals were provided at the former Clyde Road level crossing, which was located nearby in the up dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merinda Park Railway Station
Merinda Park railway station is a commuter railway station on the Cranbourne line, which is part of the Melbourne railway network. It serves the eastern suburb of Cranbourne North, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and opened on 24 March 1995. The original station was built with a double platform, designed with a future duplication in mind. A fence ran alongside the unused platform.Instead, the station was rebuilt and the current station was opened in 2022. History Merinda Park station opened as part of the electrification of the line to Cranbourne. The station is named after an adjacent housing estate, opened in the 1980s. In 1977, flashing light signals were provided at the former Thompsons Road level crossing, which was located in the down direction from the station. In 1995, boom barriers were provided at the crossing in conjunction with the electrification project. On 25 June 2018, the level crossing was eliminated as part of the Level Crossing Removal Project. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Transport Victoria
Public Transport Victoria (PTV) is the brand name for public transport in the Australian state of Victoria. It was previously the trading name of the Public Transport Development Authority (PTDA), a now-defunct statutory authority in Victoria, responsible for providing, coordinating, and promoting public transport. PTV began operating on 2 April 2012, taking over many of the responsibilities previously exercised by the Director of Public Transport and the Department of Transport. It also took over the marketing of public transport in Victoria from Metlink and Viclink, as well as responsibility for the myki ticketing system, formerly handled by the Transport Ticketing Authority. PTV's functions were transferred to the Department of Transport and Planning (DTP) on 1 July 2019. However, PTV continues to exist as the brand for public transport services in Victoria and refers to the Public Transport division of DTP. Governance PTV was the trading name of the Public Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cranbourne Railway Station
Cranbourne railway station is a commuter railway station and the terminus of the Cranbourne line, which is part of the Melbourne railway network. It serves the south-eastern suburb of the same name, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and opened on 1 October 1888. The station was closed between 24 July 1993 and 24 March 1995, and the current station was opened in 2008. History Cranbourne opened as a station on the South Gippsland line. Until 24 July 1993, it was served by V/Line trains to Leongatha and beyond. As with the suburb itself, the station got its name from the Cranbourne Inn, established in the mid-19th century by the Ruffy brothers, who were squatters in the area. The area was named either after a town in Berkshire, England or Viscount Cranborne. Between March 1920 and June 1956, trains regularly operated from sidings about south of the station, dispatching between ten and thirty goods trucks a week, loaded with locally mined construction-quality sand. In 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ventura Bus Lines
Ventura Bus Lines is a large bus and coach operator in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, operating a fleet of more than 950 buses on 141 bus routes. History Early history Ventura was founded in December 1924 by Henry Cornwall. The name and company colours (dark blue, light blue and yellow) derived from Ventura County, California where Cornwall had spent time after serving in World War I. A former employee of Track & Kintrack, St Kilda, Harry decided to form his own bus company when his employer refused to run a bus service along dirt roads through what was then Melbourne's outer east.The Ventura Story - 75 Years of Moving People ''Australian Bus Panorama'' December 1999 page 19 Cornwall began operating a bus route between Box Hill and Melbourne central business district, and in 1930 began running buses between Box Hill and Mentone. The first depot was behind the petrol station on the corner of Station Street and Canterbury Road, in Box Hill South. Expansion In 1943, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cranbourne Transit
Cranbourne Transit is a bus operator in Melbourne, Australia. It operates 16 routes under contract to Public Transport Victoria. It is a subsidiary of the Pulitano Group. History In August 1953, Phillips Bus Service purchased Woods Bus Services. On 1 February 2003, Phillips Bus Service was purchased by the Pulitano Group and renamed Cranbourne Transit. '' Australasian Bus & Coach'' Fleet As at January 2023, the fleet consisted of 69 buses and coaches. Cranbourne Transit's fleet livery was white with a black stripe until it was replaced with a yellow front livery in 2010. The orange and white |
Arterial Road
An arterial road or arterial thoroughfare is a high-capacity urban road that sits below highway A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land. It includes not just major roads, but also other public roads and rights of way. In the United States, it is also used as an equivalent term to controlled-access highway, or ...s on the road hierarchy in terms of traffic flow and speed. The primary function of an arterial road is to deliver traffic from collector roads to highways or expressways, and between urban hubs at a relatively high level of service. Therefore, many arteries are limited-access roads or feature restrictions on private access. Because of their relatively high accessibility, many major roads face large amounts of land use and urban development, making them significant urban places. In traffic engineering hierarchy, an arterial road delivers traffic between collector roads and highways. For new arterial roads, intersections are of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldi
Aldi (German pronunciation: ), stylised as ALDI, is the common company brand name of two German multinational family-owned discount supermarket chains operating over 12,000 stores in 18 countries. The chain was founded by brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht in 1946, when they took over their mother's store in Essen. The business was split into two separate groups in 1960 that later became Aldi Nord (initially Northern West Germany), headquartered in Essen, and Aldi Süd (initially Southern West Germany), headquartered in neighbouring Mülheim. In 1962, they introduced the name Aldi (a syllabic abbreviation for "Albrecht Diskont"). In Germany, Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd have been financially and legally separate since 1966, although both divisions' names may appear as if they were a single enterprise with certain store brands or when negotiating with contractor companies. Each company is owned and operated independently, but they do have contractual business with one another. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunnings
Bunnings Group Limited, trading as Bunnings Warehouse or Bunnings, is an Australian hardware and garden centre chain. The chain has been owned by Wesfarmers since 1994, and has stores in Australia and New Zealand. Bunnings was founded in Perth, Western Australia in 1886, by brothers Arthur and Robert Bunning, who had emigrated from England. Initially, a limited company focused on sawmilling, it became a public company in 1952 and subsequently expanded into the retail sector, purchasing several hardware stores. Bunnings began to expand into other states in the 1990s and opened its first warehouse-style store in Melbourne in 1994. As of 2022, the chain had 381 stores and over 53,000 employees, with a 68% market share in the Australian do it yourself hardware market; competing chains include Mitre 10, Home Hardware and various independent retailers around Australia. Bunnings had the title of Australia's most trusted brand until 2020. Bunnings runs community events outside or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Belt
A green belt or greenbelt is a policy, and land-use zone designation used in land-use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wilderness, wild, or agricultural landscape, land surrounding or neighboring urban areas. Similar concepts are greenway (landscape), greenways or green wedges, which have a linear character and may run through an urban area instead of around it. In essence, a green belt is an invisible line designating a border around a certain area, preventing development of the area and allowing wildlife to return and be established. The more general term in the United States is green space or greenspace, which may be a very small area such as a park. Purposes In those countries which have them, the stated objectives of green belt policy are to: * Protect natural or semi-natural environments; * Improve air quality within urban area, urban areas; * Ensure that urban dwellers have access to the countryside, with consequent educational and recreational opportu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
