{"id":225943,"date":"2025-05-29T14:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T04:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=225943"},"modified":"2025-06-17T19:23:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T09:23:25","slug":"v-line-disruption-to-ballarat-maryborough-ararat-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=225943","title":{"rendered":"V\/line disruption to Ballarat\/Maryborough\/Ararat Services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ballarat and beyond passengers are currently experiencing suspended services beyond Melton as a part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=135750\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Melton station design released with expensive skyrail at the centre stupid approach\">overpriced and poorly designed Melton Level Crossing Removal<\/a> project. This project is marketed as a major service improvement for Ballarat Line passengers but it is not. It will not deliver any more services than an alternative and less expensive solution would have delivered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be a series of major service outages over the coming period for weeks at a time to construct a poorly designed and engineered solution for Melton and the Ballarat Line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why then during these large outages of services can&#8217;t V\/Line run trains express from Deer Park to Corio and then via the rail <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geelong\u2013Ballarat_railway_line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">line from Geelong to Ballarat<\/a> and then onto designations beyond? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rail line between Geelong and Ballarat has been maintained with both state and federal funding meaning the track is in very good condition and could easily be used for passenger services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This lack of planning and respect of passengers only further highlights the awkward and insufficient policy and focus by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=143253\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"The Management of V\/line\">V\/Line Management.<\/a>  They would rather sit on their hands and ignore a problem than take a positive step to provide a viable alternative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be a series of major service outages over the coming period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":181309,"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":[4239,12645,4598,993,12644,8],"class_list":["post-225943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-rail-news","category-v-line","tag-ballarat","tag-ballarat-railway-line","tag-geelong","tag-melbourne","tag-melton","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225943","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=225943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225947,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225943\/revisions\/225947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/181309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}