{"id":189188,"date":"2025-03-22T08:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T22:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=189188"},"modified":"2025-03-25T10:35:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T00:35:05","slug":"matt-carrick-ceo-of-v-line-finally-leaves-with-v-line-performance-in-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=189188","title":{"rendered":"Matt Carrick CEO of V\/Line finally leaves with Network performance in spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today we bid farewell and thank you to V\/Line Chief Executive Officer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAALRBU4B-aSzR-GyipncdfpG8MhfBy7WR4s\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/carrickmatt\/\">Matt Carrick<\/a> who is departing for a new role as Secretary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/department-of-jobs-skills-industry-and-regions\/\">Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Matt has led V\/Line at a time of significant growth and change as we deliver more services, more trains, cheaper fares and huge projects in support of the communities we serve.<br><br>We are incredibly grateful to Matt for his hard work and dedication as CEO over the past three-and\u2013a-half years and wish him all the best in his next role.<br><br>Stepping in for Matt as Acting CEO will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAALt7wMBK2WWGzmg2uLvBgVZzTBncpygDaE\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/warwick-horsley-b1756114\/\">Warwick Horsley<\/a>.<br><br>Warwick is an outstanding leader with extensive public and private sector transport experience, and is a valued member of our Executive Leadership Team, having led the delivery of a <strong>transformative program<\/strong> of network improvements over the past three years as V\/Line\u2019s Executive Director \u2013 Projects.<br><br>Warwick will act in the role for six months, while a recruitment process takes place for the position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>V\/line Media Centre<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>As we have always thought here it is not about getting the right person for the job it is about reward career public servants. V\/Line is now at it worst with over crowding and late running trains, almost all lines have a punctuality performance issues, this despite substantial investments in the network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also now have an organisation that has failed to remediate patronage experience, poor train choices, removal of rolling stock and a plan to offer a bus on steel wheels approach to the travelling public. We have no plan for decarbonisation and continue to purchase diesel trains for suburban services, what a fantastic job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>V\/Line is a company owned by all of us that spends more time patting their people on the back rather than encouraging them to be innovative and to excel at their role.  It feels like this company strives on celebrating mediocrity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do you rate current V\/Line performance?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we have always thought here it is not about getting the right person for the job it is about reward career public servants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":189190,"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":[10073,47,186],"tags":[993,8],"class_list":["post-189188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-myki","category-rail-news","category-v-line","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189188","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=189188"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190510,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189188\/revisions\/190510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/189190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}