People living in Melbourne have more or less complained about the public transport facilities here, some of the station facilities are old, the train frequency is cancelled, and the employees are not satisfied with the strike every once in a while, all of them have to be more capricious and more capricious. some people in Melbourne have complained about the public transport facilities here, some of the station facilities are old and old, the train frequency is cancelled, and the employees are dissatisfied with each other. But the most important problem, but also the most deadly problem, but also the safety of the station.
Recently, a train station in Melbourne North District put on the blacklist of the world`s famous travel guide, warning tourists that "it is better to go less when it is dark." Is it really that dangerous?
01, blacklist on North District Station
Founded in Melbourne, Lonely Planet is considered to be the world`s largest private guidebook publishing house, and the series of travel books < Lonely Planet > is also the first series of travel books for backpackers. Many backpackers and "poor tourists" refer to the guides in the book-such as "how to get to the city in the cheapest way after getting off the plane."
Generally speaking, tourists from other parts of Australia and around the world will first choose SkyBus as the means of transportation from Melbourne airport to the center of the city.
But some tourists tend to use more affordable public transport, the most smooth route is to take bus 901 from terminal 4 of the airport to the Broadmeadowstring station to transfer into the city for 90 minutes.
However, Lonely Planet specifically states in this strategy, "Please avoid using it at night as much as possible."
But Lonely Planet is not the only organization to give a warning. On Yelp, a US review site, some netizens suggest "less stay at Broadmeadows Station" and "watch your bag". "the situation is very bad," the station evaluation said. "there will be staff and security personnel at the service desk at night, but frankly, they`d better be there all day."
02, how terrible is it?
The latest figures show that, Broadmeadows train has become one of the top 10 sites with the highest crime rate in Melbourne and is in urgent need of reconstruction by government.
The number of cases at Broadmeadows train has risen from 69 a year nine years ago to 92 a year, according to criminal Bureau of Statistics.
And in recent months, Broadmeadows train station and its surrounding areas have committed a series of terrible crimes, including carjacking, burglary and knife robbery.
Hume`s mayor, Carly Moore, said the train station has poor visibility and low light, and has multiple visual blind spots in underground channels and other places.
"the facilities and construction of the Broadmeadows train station have great drawbacks, and can even help criminals hide and cover up criminal acts to a certain extent," Carly Moore said.
03, years of heart trouble
In fact, the reconstruction of Broadmeadows train station has been an important demand for local office workers for a long time. But still, the state government has not promised to fund the reconstruction of the Broadmeadows train station.
As early as 2009, John Brumby Labour government allocated A $80 million for the reconstruction and expansion of Broadmeadows train stations. But before the real reconstruction began, the Labour Party lost the, Broadmeadows train station in the state election and was forced to stop reconstruction.
After the Labour Party returned to power, the masses have more than once offered to refund the reconstruction of the Broadmeadows train station, but the state government speaker Joel Dwyer says it has spent A $4 million to renovate the train station.
In fact, the A $4 million funding has only rebuilt the northern entrance to the Broadmeadows train station, while in most areas of the train station, there are still many drawbacks, such as dim light and a large number of visual blind spots.
04, where will the train station go?
Carly Moore, mayor of Hume, said: "We are continuing to call on government, Victoria, to design and build a safer and more open new station. Ensure that the new station has a wider range of horizons and is better integrated with the surrounding buildings, so that all commuters who use the train station can feel safe and reliable."
State government speaker Joel Dwyer also said that in addition to the construction of the northern entrance, it also installed digital surveillance cameras inside the Broadmeadows train station to take evidence and punish criminal acts.
"in the future, new Led lights and safety mirrors will be installed in underground corridors, and further security upgrades will be considered," Joel Dwyer said.
Wayne Moed, a senior police officer at the Victoria Public Security Command, said the, Broadmeadows train station is still one of the busiest transportation hubs in the area, as well as the place where they patrol the Craigieburn line the most.
"We will continue to patrol and investigate criminal acts and prosecute," Wayne Moed said.
Wayne Moed also said it had conducted a series of day patrols on the Craigieburn line since April and stepped up patrols of students near the Broadmeadows train station during school hours, with surveys of sense of security, passengers on the route, up 2 percent in the past December.
"We will try our best to improve passengers` sense of security and satisfaction in the future," Wayne Moed said.
05, Melbourne train station crime rate ranking
In addition, crime data Bureau of Statistics (Crime Statistics Agency) also released the latest Melbourne train station crime rate ranking.
Dandenong train has long topped the list, making it the most notorious "dangerous" station on the outskirts of Melbourne, where annual crime has fallen to its lowest level in nearly five years, but remains at the top of the list. Between April 2018 and March 2019, there were 354 crimes at the station, well ahead of Melbourne, a slight improvement from 396 the previous year.
Sunshine train ranked second with 193 crimes a year.
The Spring valetrain station has been among the highest crime stations in Melbourne for the first time. Over the past 12 months, the crime rate has doubled to 114 crimes. Property and fraud(29)have become the most common crimes, followed by security and security crimes(25), and several robbery and attacks, including one, occurred near the station.
Other train stations that are in the top 10 at risk include 163: Ringwood (, 146), Footscray (, 146), Newport (, 113), North.
Melbourne (104), Frankston (103), Werribee (93) and Broadmeadows (92).
