{"id":218167,"date":"2025-05-16T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=218167"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:28:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:28:35","slug":"deplorable-frustrated-v-line-commuters-flood-the-3aw-talkback-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=218167","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Deplorable\u2019: Frustrated V\/Line commuters flood the 3AW talkback line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Multiple callers on the 3AW talkback line have voiced their frustrations on the state of V\/Line, and the complications they face on a near daily basis commuting from the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It comes after signal faults impacted both the Geelong and Ballarat lines this morning, with no communication to commuters and nothing on the website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely deplorable,\u201d caller Sarah said on&nbsp;<em>3AW Drive<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Press PLAY to hear some callers\u2019 frustrating V\/line experiences<\/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=\"&#039;Deplorable&#039;: Frustrated V\/Line commuters flood the 3AW talkback line\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-drive\/deplorable-frustrated-v-line-commuters-flood-the-3aw-talkback-line\/embed#?secret=ZK8WSoRAaS\" data-secret=\"ZK8WSoRAaS\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It comes after signal faults impacted both the Geelong and Ballarat lines Monday morning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":154910,"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],"tags":[8054,4239,4598,13914,993,8],"class_list":["post-218167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-rail-news","category-v-line","tag-3aw","tag-ballarat","tag-geelong","tag-jacqui-felgate","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218167","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=218167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218168,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218167\/revisions\/218168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/154910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}