Melbourne has so many big transport projects in the pipeline right now, it can be hard to keep track of which new tunnel is going where. But despite all these exciting new additions to our city\u2019s public transport, a new survey has shown that the project Melburnians want to be completed the most is the same one that the government has been pushing back constantly for years \u2013 yikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Committee for Melbourne, an independent not-for-profit that advocates for bettering our city, published its Living in Melbourne 2024<\/a> report, which shone a light on what really matters to Melburnians. Public transport is always a hot topic for Melbourne, but discussions have become particularly heated as our city\u2019s outer suburbs continue to boom in population, with poor accessibility becoming a serious issue<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n One part of the report surveyed residents on which major transport project they supported the most. No, it\u2019s not the much-hyped Metro Tunnel, the opening date of which has ambitiously been brought forward to 2025. It\u2019s not the Suburban Rail Loop either, the next huge rail project planned, which isn\u2019t slated to be fully completed until as late as 2053. Hopefully, we\u2019ll have the technology to teleport by then and won\u2019t need to bother with public transport. <\/p>\n\n\n\n These two projects only garnered 59 and 58 per cent support ratings respectively, which sounds all right, but a reformation of our bus system<\/a> actually received more support, at 66 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unsurprisingly, the people just want a bloody train direct to the airport \u2013 an overwhelming 72 per cent of survey participants said they support the Melbourne Airport Rail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The subject has been drawing more ire than usual lately, when this year\u2019s state budget revealed the project had been delayed<\/a>, once again. Mainly because the government and the airport operators couldn\u2019t quit squabbling over the plans. Then, after they kicked up such a fuss, they backflipped<\/a>. It’s been chaotic, to say the least. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It couldn\u2019t be more clear what Melburnians really want, but who knows whether the powers that be will actually fast-track the airport train to make it happen ASAP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s plenty of new train lines and stations coming to Melbourne \u2013 but they’re not the one we want the most<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":169547,"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":[513,47],"tags":[993,8],"class_list":["post-169546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-melbourne-airport","category-rail-news","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169546","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=169546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169557,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169546\/revisions\/169557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/169547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}