Why there will be 300 trucks travelling through Glen Waverley

Monash Council will start a $6 million road rehabilitation project later in the year.

Matthew Sims
February 28, 2025

Coleman Parade in Glen Waverley is set for a major facelift, making way for an as many as 300 trucks to drive down the thoroughfare every day as they head to underground works on the Suburban Rail Loop station.

Terra Verde – a consortium of WeBuild, GS Engineering and Construction, and Bouygues Construction – will build the northern section of the twin tunnels from Glen Waverley to Box Hill using tunnel boring machines.

The Glen Waverley Suburban Rail Loop station will be located underground directly next to the current Glen Waverley station.

Work will begin on two 26km tunnels in 2026, with excavating for six new stations between Cheltenham and Box Hill also taking place, ahead of passengers boarding trains in 2035.

Next year, tunnel boring machines will launch from Burwood to carve the north-bound tunnels to Glen Waverley, while two tunnel boring machines will carve the south-bound tunnels travelling from Clarinda to Glen Waverley.

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At the Monash Council meeting on Monday, council approved the reconstruction of Coleman Parade with a project budget of up to $6 million. The council will split the cost with the Suburban Rail Loop Authority.

Construction is scheduled to commence in July 2025 and be completed by June 2026.

Monash Council deputy mayor Brian Little said workers would dig up 120,000 cubic metres of soil in order to make a hole where they can drop a pre-made station.

“That’s going to require an awful lot of very large trucks moving into that area,” he said.

The vision for Glen Waverley also includes housing and retail opportunities.

Little said on average, about 70 large trucks would be driving up and down Coleman Parade with traffic jumping up to 300 at peak times.

“If they’re going to go down Coleman Parade, we need that road to look very robust indeed,” he said.

“It needs to be fixed up a bit and it needs to be fortified.

“We will need to do it and we will need to do it before those trucks start rolling.”

Other works currently underway in Glen Waverley also include the realignment of Myrtle Street, which will include a closure of the road between Coleman Parade and Begong Avenue until mid March and a closure between Coleman Parade and Montclair Avenue from mid March.