{"id":218164,"date":"2025-05-16T10:25:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T00:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=218164"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:28:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:28:49","slug":"acting-v-line-ceo-reveals-kangaroos-are-to-blame-for-commuter-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=218164","title":{"rendered":"Acting V\/Line CEO reveals kangaroos are to blame for commuter chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>V\/Line acting CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=189188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Matt Carrick CEO of V\/Line finally leaves with Network performance in spotlight\">Warwick Horsley<\/a> has apologised for the current state of V\/Line services after commuters told\u00a0<em>3AW Drive<\/em>\u00a0about their experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He revealed trains striking kangaroos have been the reason for why some services have only had three carriages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a huge factor at the moment, we\u2019re seeing three times as many kangaroo strikes in the regions \u2026 So what we\u2019ve chosen to do, is rather than cancel trains, is try to run every single train where we can,\u201d he told Jacqui Felgate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Press PLAY to hear the full interview<\/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=\"Acting V\/Line CEO reveals kangaroos are to blame for commuter chaos\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-drive\/acting-vline-ceo-reveals-kangaroos-are-to-blame-for-commuter-chaos\/embed#?secret=cEgqsFjM7F\" data-secret=\"cEgqsFjM7F\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019s also apologised for the current state of services and said services are always evolving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>V\/Line acting CEO Warwick Horsley has apologised for the current state of V\/Line services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":62976,"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":[35,47,186,181],"tags":[8054,993,8,16755],"class_list":["post-218164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-rail-news","category-v-line","category-vlocity","tag-3aw","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria","tag-warwick-horsley"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218164","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=218164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218165,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218164\/revisions\/218165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}