AJ Sadauskas<p><strong>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?</strong></p><p>A: A golf course called the Huntingdale Golf Club.</p><p><strong>Q: Okay, and what will we build next to that?</strong></p><p>A: A golf course called the Metropolitan Golf Club.</p><p><strong>Q: But what about this new Monash University that we want to build, where thousands of people will work and study every day?</strong></p><p>A: Let’s put that away from the train line, on the far side of Dandenong Rd.</p><p><strong>Q: How will people get there?</strong></p><p>A: By car or bus.</p><p><strong>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?</strong></p><p>A: It also goes on the far side of Dandenong Rd.</p><p><strong>Q: How will people get there?</strong></p><p>A: By car or bus.</p><p><strong>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?</strong></p><p>A: Let’s put that even further away from the train, past Springvale Rd.</p><p><strong>Q: How will people get there?</strong></p><p>A: Slowly. By car.</p><p><strong>Q: What about this new suburb of Rowville, which will have a population over 33,000?</strong></p><p>A: We’ll build it as single family detached houses even further away from the trains, past Stud Rd.</p><p><strong>Q: So you’ll build these places many kilometres from the train line, and a golf course next to the existing train station?</strong></p><p>A: Correct.</p><p><strong>Q: So how do you expect the golfers get to the golf course?</strong></p><p>A: What a silly question! 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