{"id":222095,"date":"2025-05-23T15:54:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T05:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=222095"},"modified":"2025-05-23T16:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T06:00:02","slug":"the-victorian-road-maintenance-sham-caused-by-freight-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=222095","title":{"rendered":"The Victorian Road Maintenance Sham Caused by Freight Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just 1.6% of Victoria&#8217;s dilapidated regional road network will receive maintenance work in the next financial year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacinta Allan believes 98.4% of Victoria&#8217;s regional roads are in pristine condition, but her minister for roads, ports and freight Melissa Horne, tells the public heavy vehicles are causing significant road damage in Victoria and are the cause of the potholes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no plan to increase rail freight in Victoria from the historic lows being experienced now.  The much announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=48913\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Melissa Horne\u2019s disastrous management of rail freight in Victoria\">Port Rail Shuttles are years behind having been announced in 2017<\/a> and not delivered by Freight Victoria.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"812\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image_2025-05-23_155917703-1024x812.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-222116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image_2025-05-23_155917703-1024x812.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image_2025-05-23_155917703-300x238.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image_2025-05-23_155917703-768x609.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image_2025-05-23_155917703.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Freight Victoria have a vested and unhealthy interest in promoting road freight over rail freight. This will of course lead to further road damage and increased deaths on Victorian Roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through research all afternoon I was unable to find a rail freight project sponsored by Freight Victoria that had been delivered to the benefit of Victorian&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through research all afternoon I was unable to find a rail freight project sponsored by Freight Victoria that had been delivered to the benefit of Victorian&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":159778,"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":[273,999,35,47],"tags":[14388,8634,993,8635,8],"class_list":["post-222095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","category-rail-news","tag-freight-victoria","tag-jacinta-allan","tag-melbourne","tag-melissa-horne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222095","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=222095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222117,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222095\/revisions\/222117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/159778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}