{"id":18350,"date":"2024-03-08T10:20:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T00:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=18350"},"modified":"2024-03-08T10:20:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T00:20:55","slug":"regional-victoria-commuters-facing-major-delays-as-v-line-workers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=18350","title":{"rendered":"Regional Victoria commuters facing major delays as V\/Line workers strike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thousands of rail passengers in regional Victoria are facing significant travel disruption today as industrial action brings a halt to V\/Line services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be no trains moving for 13 hours today as the Rail, Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) hold a work stoppage across the network from 3am until 4pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>V\/Line has urged people only to travel if they need to help ensure the limited services that will be running are free for essential journeys.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imageresizer.static9.net.au\/VIDASc_59syYKdgDxQfG6Y09Deg=\/500x0\/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2F059dbab6-4641-4b01-98c6-69baf3191840\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">There will be no V\/line services today in regional Victoria until 4pm due to a strike by rail workers.&nbsp;(Nine)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A limited number of coaches will run from first service until about 5pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Delays of two hours or more are expected including extended wait and travel times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The union is seeking an improved pay deal for its members and has been negotiating with V\/Line management since last June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of rail passengers in regional Victoria are facing significant travel disruption today as industrial action brings a halt to V\/Line services. There will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"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":[273,51,986,163,186],"tags":[472,993,7,8,6],"class_list":["post-18350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-passenger-rail","category-passenger-traffic","category-rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand","category-v-line","tag-australian","tag-melbourne","tag-transport","tag-victoria","tag-vline"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18350","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18351,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18350\/revisions\/18351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}