{"id":167398,"date":"2025-01-16T09:31:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T23:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=167398"},"modified":"2025-01-16T09:31:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T23:31:28","slug":"why-its-time-to-make-public-transport-free-for-major-melbourne-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=167398","title":{"rendered":"Why it\u2019s time to make public transport FREE for major Melbourne events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Shane McInnes says it\u2019s time for a complete re-think on public transport costs at major Melbourne events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While a daily myki fare to attend events like the Australian Open is now $11, the MCG is offering a cheaper $10 car parking pass across the road from Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>3AW Afternoons<\/em>&nbsp;host says it\u2019s startling that it costs more to catch the train compared to a parking, calling on public transport to be made free if you\u2019re attending major events in line with other states in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Click PLAY to hear Shane\u2019s full thoughts + his chat with Daniel Bowen&nbsp;<\/strong><\/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=\"Shane McInnes makes the case for FREE public transport at major Melbourne events\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-afternoons\/shane-mcinnes-makes-the-case-for-free-public-trans\/embed#?secret=JYmIT19nep\" data-secret=\"JYmIT19nep\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all well and good to say \u2018use public transport it\u2019s the best way to get there\u2019,\u201d he said on&nbsp;<em>3AW<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPeople pay through the nose for events in this town \u2026 a free ride, surely isn\u2019t too much to ask.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shane McInnes says it\u2019s time for a complete re-think on public transport costs at major Melbourne events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":167399,"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":[6822,9770,10073,47,186],"tags":[15000,993,8],"class_list":["post-167398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-melbourne-events","category-metro-trains-melbourne","category-myki","category-rail-news","category-v-line","tag-australian-open","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167398","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167401,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167398\/revisions\/167401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}