Fawkner is a terrible suburb to plan public and active transport for. Fawkner can claim two stations on the Upfield line. But this skirts the suburb's western edge, is severed from most homes by busy Sydney Rd and lacks a station at the suburb's nearest large shopping centre at Campbellfield. When the timetable is running perfectly peak trains run every 16 minutes. However reliability is fragile as even small delays can result in trains being terminated early due to the single track section north of Gowrie. Fawkner is somewhat of an island. Cemeteries limit road access to the west while Merri Creek blocks it to the east. This makes any east-west travel from most parts of Fawkner an ordeal. Which is is exacerbated by Reservoir's bus network being an unreformed mess with complex routes like the 553 and dead end routes like 558. And to the west the 536 has a weak terminus at Gowrie Station rather than extending into or nearer Fawkner, even if just to Campbellfield Plaza. North-south…
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