The Allan Labor Government is focused on what matters most – cutting congestion for busy families and workers and saving time for passengers.
The Victorian Budget 2025/26 invests almost $5 billion in a public transport blitz to:
- switch on the Metro Tunnel and deliver turn-up-and-go services
- run more frequent train services elsewhere across the network
- kick off the first stage of Airport Rail by funding the Sunshine Station superhub
The Metro Tunnel is the biggest transformation of the rail network since the City Loop, delivering more services and more time savings with new rail tunnels under the CBD and five new underground stations.
Opening this year, an investment of $727 million will operationalise the Metro Tunnel – switching it on and delivering turn-up-and-go services for the Sunbury, Cranbourne and Pakenham lines that run through it.
A further $98.7 million will deliver more frequent services for passengers on other lines, making it easier for passengers to get to work and home sooner, including:
- Werribee line: two additional trains per hour in the mornings and afternoons, increasing the number of trains on the Werribee line in peak periods from six to eight trains per hour
- Sandringham line: services running every 10 minutes between peak periods, increasing the number of trains from four to six trains per hour between peak periods
- Craigieburn line: increase in services during shoulder peak and off-peak periods, with trains running at least every 20 minutes on the line, including late at night and on weekends
- Upfield line: increase in off-peak services with trains running at least every 20 minutes on the line, including late at night and on weekends
- Gippsland line: additional weekday interpeak services on the Traralgon Line following the completion of the Gippsland Line Upgrade this year, with trains to run every 40 minutes
- Bendigo line: longer trains running on more weekend services
- Seymour line: an additional service in the morning and afternoon peak
The boost to train services builds on the more than 2,100 additional weekly services added across the regional and metropolitan train network since 2015.
