Premier Daniel Andrews has come under fire for failing to include South Yarra Station as part of his plan to build the Metro Rail link, with Stonnington Council saying the omission defies logic given the growth of passengers.

Earlier this month, the state government announced it would fast-track the $11 billion rail project, which involves constructing an underground tunnel through the CBD with five new stations: Domain, CBD South, CBD North, Parkville and Arden.

However, with planning now underway, Mr Andrews is facing growing pressure to reconsider the project's route, which, unlike the former Napthine Government's preferred alignment, no longer includes additional platform upgrades at South Yarra Station – a key interchange for users of the Dandenong, Frankston, Cranbourne and Pakenham lines.

Commuter groups and council officials have hit out at the decision, saying that South Yarra Station was already stretched, and would only worsen without the necessary infrastructure.

Stonnington Mayor Melina Sehr said part of that growth would come from the development of over 3000 new dwellings in an area next to the station bound by Toorak Road and Chapel Street known as the Forrest Hill Precinct – the kind of urban growth that successive governments had actively encouraged.