{"id":188813,"date":"2025-03-21T09:13:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T23:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=188813"},"modified":"2025-03-21T11:49:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T01:49:19","slug":"why-tom-elliott-believes-future-airport-rail-link-is-a-dud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=188813","title":{"rendered":"Why Tom Elliott believes future airport rail link is a \u2018dud\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tom Elliott says there are several reasons why the much-hyped rail link to Melbourne Airport is a \u201cdud\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project now has support from the airport and both levels of government, with services tipped to start by 2033.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Press PLAY to hear Tom Elliott\u2019s FULL strong comments on the airport rail link&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=\"Why Tom Elliott believes future airport rail link is a &#039;dud&#039;\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-mornings\/why-tom-elliott-believes-future-airport-rail-link\/embed#?secret=AM7mtn4Vsf\" data-secret=\"AM7mtn4Vsf\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>3AW Mornings<\/em>&nbsp;host said both the cost blowout and planned route for the link left a lot to be desired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI can guarantee beyond a shadow of a doubt that this project is a dud,\u201d he said on&nbsp;<em>3AW<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project now has support from the airport and both levels of government, with services tipped to start by 2033.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":26073,"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":[8054,993,11298,8],"class_list":["post-188813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-melbourne-airport","category-rail-news","tag-3aw","tag-melbourne","tag-tom-elliott","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188813","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=188813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188851,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188813\/revisions\/188851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}