title: Bacchus Marsh Integrated Transport Strategy 2015 council: moorabool state: vic category: infrastructure classification: MAJOR status: adopted-source-limited-update-needed last_compiled: 2026-05-31 source_docs:
- bacchus-marsh-integrated-transport-strategy-part-1.txt
- bacchus-marsh-integrated-transport-strategy_part2.txt
- page-00570-www-moorabool-vic-gov-au-building-and-planning-planning-for-the-shires-future-moorabool-planning-scheme.txt
- web-research-L1-eastern-link-dtp.txt
- web-research-L1-eastern-link-road-options-assessment-transport-vic.txt
- web-research-L1-halletts-way-bigbuild.txt
- agenda-1-april-2026.pdf
Bacchus Marsh Integrated Transport Strategy 2015
Current Production Status
The Bacchus Marsh Integrated Transport Strategy is an adopted transport evidence base, but it is not enough on its own for current growth-sequencing advice. Part 1 is readable and supports the strategic mechanism; Part 2 extraction failed, and the strategy predates the current Merrimu/C109, Parwan Station, Parwan Employment and Eastern Link Road evidence. (Source: bacchus-marsh-integrated-transport-strategy-part-1.txt; Source: bacchus-marsh-integrated-transport-strategy_part2.txt)
2015 Transport Mechanism
The strategy framed transport as a growth-enabling constraint for Bacchus Marsh, Darley and Maddingley. It identified immediate actions such as east-facing Halletts Way freeway ramps, Gisborne Road and Grant Street capacity investigations, bicycle-network improvements, a pedestrian/cycle bridge over the Western Freeway and eastern bypass planning. (Source: bacchus-marsh-integrated-transport-strategy-part-1.txt) By later horizons it expected Western Link Road, expanded bus coverage, Young Street extension and rail duplication signals to support growth. (Source: bacchus-marsh-integrated-transport-strategy-part-1.txt)
Reconciliation With Current Growth Work
Current growth evidence shows that the 2015 transport logic has sharpened into a smaller number of binding dependencies. The Eastern Link Road is now central to Merrimu, Parwan Station and Parwan Employment staging. (Source: moorabool-c81-panel-report.pdf, pp.116-123; Source: web-research-L1-eastern-link-dtp.txt) Council’s Merrimu material asks for road-reservation and staging controls because lots should not be released beyond what the transport network can absorb. (Source: agenda-1-april-2026.pdf, pp.10-15)
Halletts Way is partly different: state material identifies Halletts Way extension as a Big Build project, meaning part of the network has moved toward delivery. (Source: web-research-L1-halletts-way-bigbuild.txt) That does not solve Eastern Link Road, Parwan Station, Merrimu or Parwan Employment staging, because those dependencies require separate approval, acquisition, funding and environmental pathways. (Source: web-research-L1-eastern-link-road-options-assessment-transport-vic.txt; Source: web-research-L1-eastern-link-dtp.txt)
Town-Centre And Local Network Implications
The transport strategy remains relevant to town-centre pressure because Bacchus Marsh growth cannot simply funnel all new movements through existing central corridors. (Source: bacchus-marsh-integrated-transport-strategy-part-1.txt) For production advice, the current question is whether each growth package has a defensible staging assumption: which lots can proceed before BMELR, which intersections need interim upgrades, whether bus/active-transport measures are funded, and whether freight and residential traffic are being separated. (Source: moorabool-c81-panel-report.pdf, p.116; Source: agenda-1-april-2026.pdf, pp.10-15)
Production Gap Escalation
The missing Part 2 extraction and absence of current network modelling prevent this page from testing level-of-service values, intersection warrants, corridor land-take, construction costs or final lot caps. The page should therefore be read as the historical/adopted transport foundation, reconciled with current BMELR and Merrimu evidence, not as a final current transport model. (Source: bacchus-marsh-integrated-transport-strategy_part2.txt; Source: web-research-L1-eastern-link-road-dtp.txt)