Bell Street level crossing, near the Coburg Station. Credit:Eddie Jim

Rail tracks on the Upfield line in Melbourne's north could be elevated over Moreland Road and Bell Street, or lowered beneath the Coburg arterial roads in an open trench, under fresh draft plans to get rid of boom gates holding up the traffic.

In the lead up to the 2014 election, the Andrews Government promised to remove 50 dangerous and congested level crossings by 2022.

The government has since committed to removing an extra two level crossings, and preliminary designs for Bell Street Coburg and Moreland Road, on the Brunswick/Coburg border, reveal that a total of 53 crossings could be removed, with boom gates to go at either Munro Street or O'Hea Street in Coburg.