{"id":223942,"date":"2025-05-26T14:34:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T04:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=223942"},"modified":"2025-05-26T14:35:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T04:35:25","slug":"melbourne-transport-planning-is-in-a-terrible-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=223942","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne transport planning is in a terrible state"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is something dramatically wrong when we cannot get passenger trains between Geelong and Ballarat despite infrastructure being available<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHAT WE CANNOT DO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We cannot get a rail line connected between Werribee West and Wyndham Vale despite this being an important project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We cannot get a railway station built on a rail line ahead of the housing booming in the western areas of Melbourne. This is years after a suburb has been approved by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We run dirty and insufficient diesel trains to suburbs of Melbourne adding to the toxic air at Southern Cross<\/a> Railway Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We cannot get a train back to Clyde South despite 150,000 homes in the area<\/a>, but we can get a train to Ararat a city of 8000 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We cannot provide more trains onto lines to Werribee and Craigieburn who are at crush levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have failed to provide an airport rail line despite years of talk, talk and more talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We cannot electrify the Geelong Line for the environment<\/a> to reduce carbon emissions and use renewable energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BUT WE CAN DO THIS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can invest $30b into a road that will only create further girdlock in the North East and a project without a valid business case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We provide Transurban with $billions for a new tunnel into Melbourne to drive 50,000 additional vehicles into the city centre despite the Melbourne City Council taking steps to restrict vehicles into Melbourne<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spend $billions as Ben Carroll widening the road to Ballarat for trucks and bulldozing 1000’s of trees in the process some of significant meaning to our first nations friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IN SUMMARY:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We celebrate over a new bus route as our expectations of the government and especially Transport Victoria is so damn low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We celebrate over a new bus route as our expectations of the government and especially Transport Victoria is so damn low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":223943,"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":[273,47],"tags":[993,13226,10599,8,16849],"class_list":["post-223942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-rail-news","tag-melbourne","tag-mount-atkinson","tag-public-transport-victoria","tag-victoria","tag-wyndham-vale"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t