Still waiting on the train?
We’re already here.Rowville to Melbourne Airport, fixed fare.
Rowville’s been promised a railway since 1969 — no need to wait on it. A booked driver, a fixed fare you see before you pay, and a clean hybrid at your door: to the airport, Monash, Stud Park, the hospital, or the city. No surge. No guessing. No app roulette.
Promised since 1969
The famous train that never came.
Car-built suburb
~75% of residents drive.
33,571 residents
Knox's biggest suburb.
Monash on the doorstep
Plus Stud Park & the lakes.
CPVV-licensed
Commercial passenger vehicle accredited
Fixed fares
Set before you book · no surge
Cabcharge accepted
Alongside card & cash
~90% hybrid / electric
Tesla & Lexus hybrids
Booked drivers
Assigned, not dispatch-and-hope
1300 012 018
Or book online in under a minute
The fare you see is the fare you pay.
You see it first
Enter pickup and drop-off. Your price is set and shown before you book — tolls and GST included.
It doesn't move
No surge at 5pm. No meter creep on Stud Road, Wellington Road or EastLink. The fare you see is the fare you pay.
You're matched, not gambled
A real driver is assigned to your trip — not auto-dispatched and hoped for.
A big, car-built suburb that learned to just get on with it.
Ask anyone in Rowville about transport and you’ll hear about the train — the one that’s been promised since 1969 and still hasn’t come. It’s become part of the suburb’s character: a big, well-loved community of 33,571 people, with spacious homes, good schools, underground power lines, and Monash University a short drive away.
It’s a suburb with everything but a station: three shopping precincts (Stud Park — slated to grow into a full activity centre — plus Wellington Village and Rowville Lakes), lakes and parklands at Tirhatuan and Stamford Park, Lysterfield Lake on the doorstep, and a deep bench of sports clubs. ME CABS is the calm, fixed-fare way to move through all of it — no timetable required.
“A suburb with everything but a station — and a community that long ago learned to just get on with it.”
- 33,571
- Residents · Knox's biggest
- ~75%
- Drive to get around
- Since 1969
- The promised railway
- 3178
- Postcode, City of Knox
Fifty years of waiting on a train teaches you to value the thing that actually turns up. It’s booked. It’s a fixed price. It’s a clean, quiet car — here when it said it would be. Your ride is sorted — see you soon.
The whole journey, going right.
Five steps from booking to arrival — a fixed fare, a confirmation in writing, and a driver who turns up.
- 1
Book
Online in under a minute, by phone, or on WhatsApp. Fixed fare shown up front.
- 2
Confirm
You get a booking reference and driver details. Track it from your account.
- 3
Pickup
A booked driver arrives at your door — home, Stud Park, a Monash address, or the reserve car park.
- 4
Ride
Clean hybrid, known price, no meter anxiety on Stud Road, Wellington Road or EastLink.
- 5
Arrive
Pay the fare you were quoted. Receipt to your account. Done.
Melbourne’s most famous railway — promised, studied, and never built.
We’re not here to argue the politics. We’re here because the trips don’t wait for the timetable — and for the biggest car-built suburb in Knox, a booked car was always going to be the plan.
1969
First proposed
In the Melbourne Transportation Plan — the line that would change Rowville.
1982
Promised again
Re-announced — then studied over and over: 2004, 2012, 2016, 2018.
Today
15–20 years away
Still unbuilt, so around 75% of Rowville drives — well above the Melbourne average.
Here
ME CABS, already here
No waiting on a timetable — a booked, fixed-fare car at the door, every time.
The early flight.
Door to terminal up EastLink — no two-bus relay before dawn.
The Monash run.
A student or a staff member to Clayton, reliably, on time.
The team to a Saturday game.
A whole side in one maxi, one fixed fare.
The hospital trip.
With someone who can't manage a long, indirect bus.
The Stud Park shop.
Home with the week's shopping, door to door.
The late night home.
After the buses stop, straight to the door.
That’s the job ME CABS does here — not a substitute for a train that may never come, the way the biggest car-built suburb in Knox already gets around.
Our anchor in the south of Knox.
The same fixed-fare service runs across the surrounding suburbs and beyond.
Rowville sits in the City of Knox — see the Knox council page for the full picture. Bayswater, Boronia, Ferntree Gully and Knoxfield are our sibling Knox suburbs.
The run that matters most — no station to bus to.
Rowville → the airport
Roughly 52 km, about 45–50 minutes off-peak via EastLink and CityLink to Tullamarine. With no station to bus to, this is the run that matters most — door to terminal, flight watched, buffer built in, fixed fare set before you book. No pre-dawn surge.
The airport → Rowville
Land, clear the gate, and your booked driver is already arranged. We track the flight, so a delay doesn’t cost you the car. Ride home for the price you were quoted — no scramble at the rank.
Also served: Avalon (AVV) transfers on the same fixed-fare basis.
The difference is booked-driver certainty.
| When you want… | ME CABS | Rideshare app | Hail / rank taxi |
|---|---|---|---|
| A price you can trust | Fixed, shown before booking | Surges without warning | Metered — unknown till arrival |
| A car that turns up at 4am | Booked & assigned ahead | Depends who's online | Pot luck at the rank |
| Cabcharge accepted | Yes | No | Sometimes |
| A clean hybrid / EV | ~90% of the fleet | Whatever arrives | Whatever arrives |
| Maxi / group & team | Booked to suit | Limited | Limited |
The uni, the business parks, and the sports clubs.
Cabcharge & the Monash run
Rowville sits beside Monash University at Clayton and the Caribbean Park / Wellington Road precinct. Cabcharge is accepted on every trip, alongside card and cash — plus reliable student and staff runs to Monash, on a fixed fare shown before you book.
Team & club transport
For the suburb’s many clubs — football, cricket, soccer, basketball, netball, athletics — a maxi to the away game on one simple booking and a fixed price. No parent left doing five pickups.
Hospitals north and south — all a short run.
Rowville is well placed for hospitals: Knox Private (Wantirna) and Angliss (Upper Ferntree Gully) to the north, and Dandenong Hospital and Monash Medical Centre (Clayton) a short run to the south. For appointments, day procedures, discharge pickups and visiting family, a booked, fixed-fare car removes the two hardest parts: timing and uncertainty.
- Book ahead for an appointment time — the car is there, not hoped for.
- Discharge pickup when you're ready, door to door, no platform or stairs.
- Wheelchair-accessible and mobility-friendly vehicles on request.
- Quiet, clean hybrids — easier on anyone who isn't feeling well.
A car-built suburb that reaches everywhere.
Sitting at the junction of EastLink and the Monash, Rowville reaches more in a fixed-fare car than most suburbs reach by train — one agreed price each way, no parking, no toll-and-meter guesswork.
- Lysterfield Lake — riding & a swim
- Tirhatuan Park & the trails
- Stamford Park wetlands & homestead
- Football, cricket & soccer clubs
- Netball, basketball & athletics
- Weekend tournament team runs
Book a trip, team run or day out.
Choose by how many people and bags.
Flex
Sedan for the everyday Rowville ride — airport, Monash, city, appointments.
Plus
Premium comfort or extra luggage — that bit of space.
Group
Maxi for sports teams, families, group airport runs, a day at the beach or the lakes.
Fleet note
About 9 in 10 ME CABS cars are hybrid or electric — primarily Tesla and Lexus hybrids — plus wheelchair-accessible and mobility vehicles on request.
A number, not a slogan.
Rowville is a suburb of lakes and open space — Rowville Lakes, Lysterfield Lake, the Tirhatuan and Stamford Park wetlands, even its power lines tucked underground. Our fleet fits that: about 90% hybrid and electric, so the standard ride is simply the cleaner, quieter one. No badge, no lecture — just the default. Run your trip and see the real estimated emissions versus an older cab.
Curious before you book? Run the trip and see.
Carbon Savings Calculator
See how much CO₂ you save by choosing ME CABS over a petrol car
Illustrative of the journeys we want to feature — real, named, consented Rowville stories will replace these before launch.
Still waiting on the train
RowvilleWe've been promised that railway my whole life. Stopped waiting. Booked car at the door, straight up EastLink to the airport, fixed fare.
The team run
RowvilleA maxi to the away game and back, one booking, one fixed price. No parent stuck doing five pickups — everyone there for the warm-up.
The Monash run
RowvilleMy daughter's at Monash and the bus is a slog. A reliable booked car gets her there for a 9am, every time.
Rowville taxi & the train, answered.
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