{"id":150459,"date":"2024-11-21T13:06:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T03:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=150459"},"modified":"2024-11-21T13:06:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T03:06:26","slug":"metro-tunnel-fires-back-at-bad-planning-accusations-from-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=150459","title":{"rendered":"Metro Tunnel fires back at \u2018bad planning\u2019 accusations from opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The&nbsp; director of Melbourne\u2019s mega Metro Tunnel project has defended the decision to only build the tunnel to run one model of train currently operating across the train network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was revealed in Public Accounts and Estimates Committee (PAEC) hearings on Wednesday that five of the six train models in Melbourne won\u2019t be able to drive the new Metro Tunnel, which will open in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Metro Tunnel Project Director Ben Ryan said the $13.4 billion project was built in line with other underground train tunnels globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe project has been designed with international best practice,\u201d he said on&nbsp;<em>3AW Drive<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-omny-studio wp-block-embed-omny-studio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Metro Tunnel fires back at &#039;bad planning&#039; accusations from opposition\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-drive\/metro-tunnel-fires-back-at-bad-planning-accusation\/embed#?secret=Ly0aJ5diTD\" data-secret=\"Ly0aJ5diTD\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro Tunnel Project Director Ben Ryan said the $13.4 billion project was built in line with other underground train tunnels globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":150460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1168,10073,47],"tags":[8634,14480,993,8],"class_list":["post-150459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro-tunnel","category-myki","category-rail-news","tag-jacinta-allan","tag-jacui-felgate","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150461,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150459\/revisions\/150461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}