| Truganina Melbourne, Victoria |
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| Population: | 2958 (2006)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 3029 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 0.5 km² (0.2 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| State District: | Melton & Altona | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Lalor | ||||||||||||
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Truganina is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 21 km west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Wyndham and Shire of Melton.
Truganina is rapidly growing suburban area with an estimated population of 8,353 in 2011. It is bordered roughly by Skeleton-Waterholes Creek to the west; Boundary Road to the north; Mount Derrimut Road reserve to the east and Federation Trail to the south.
It is believed to be named after Truganini, the Tasmanian Aboriginal Elder who spent a short time in the area.
Truganina Post Office opened on 12 June 1878, closed in 1895, reopened in 1902 and closed again in 1942. The nearby Tarneit Post office opened in 2008 to serve the area.[2]
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Truganina is expected to have a population of 39,951 by 2031 which would be an increase of 9.9 percent or 28,633 persons from 2006.[1]
Truganina (and neighbouring Tarneit) is characterised by low density quarter acre block development and is growing rapidly in advance of transport infrastructure and services, meaning that the vast majority of new residents are currently automobile dependent. The growth is primarily due to affordable housing and the location within a growth corridor that is close to the major manufacturing areas in Laverton and the proposed business park on part of RAAF Williams base.
Truganina and surrounding suburbs is characterised by a general lack of modern infrastructure, Wyndham council has negleted to expand roads due to rapid expansion (even though they collect some of the highest rates in the country) and have failed to provide many important services to the area particularly in transport.
Telephone networks are at capacity and only a select few who live in developments with broadband hubs will have access to high speed DSL services as local exchanges are miles away (Too far for effective DSL services). New residents in Truganina have to resort to using wireless Internet technologies due to the insufficient telephone infrastructure.[3]
Truganina's road network is laid out in street hierarchy with almost all residential streets feeding into a grid of main roads including busy east-west corridor of Sayers Road; Leakes Road; Dohertys Road and Boundary Road and north-south links of Morris Road; Marquands Road; Woods Road and Palmers Road.
The main public transport is the bus network, most of the main routes runs via Sayers Road. The bus runs through the Clearwater Rise residential estate.
Off-road cycling is facilitated by the Federation Trail at the border of the suburb, however few of the main roads provision for bicycles.
The nearest railway stations are 5 kilometres from the centre of Truganina at Laverton and Hoppers Crossing which are on the Werribee railway line. Another similarly distant railway station is proposed for the corner of Derrimut Road and Leakes Road in nearby Tarneit as part of the Regional Rail Link project. This would provide V/Line diesel services on route between Geelong and Melbourne, although it is not yet known how frequently these services would stop at the new station.[4]
There are several schools in Truganina, including Westbourne Grammar School and the Islamic Schools of Victoria Werribee.
Parts of Truganina before planned for housing, are now thought as new areas for industrial zones, these planned areas lie northwards and eastwards of the new housing zones in southern Truganina.
Many distribution centres are setting up in the Truganina area due to the easy access to rail, roads and air freight services. Currently Woolworths Limited has a large liquor distribution centre that services BWS, Dan Murphys, & Woolworths Liquor, Linfox also have a small logistics centre in the same complex, and to the north of the area K&S Freighters.[5]. In 2010 Kmart Australia started to build a new purpose built distribution centre in Truganina.[6].
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