{"id":248099,"date":"2025-07-08T13:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T03:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=248099"},"modified":"2025-07-08T13:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T03:50:13","slug":"v-line-the-network-almost-always-out-of-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=248099","title":{"rendered":"V\/Line the network almost always out of order"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is not a day that gors by when we do not have an issue with V\/Line. It could be their poor rolling stock maintenance, their poor choice of longer distance rolling stock, appalling track maintenance or just the fact their Operations Manager is formerly from a Furniture Store the network is in perpetual crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just the other day we found only a single line in service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only is Victoria suffering from bad transport planning on the rail network, it can be revealed the new bus express service planned for the over priced North East Link project<\/a> (costing $250M) will make the journey times slower for passengers than they have today. Only in Victoria and under Jacinta Allan are these projects so badly run and designed. It is just a rerun of Yes Minister!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week the Western Lines to Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong<\/a> suffered almost daily service issues with track problems. The Gippsland Line appears to be down more than it is up and let’s not forget the months of the line being closed because V\/Line did not have a rail grinder to maintain the track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Warrnambool Line has been a complete disaster since the removal of the longer distance rolling stock<\/a> and its replacement with 25 year old Vlocity trains designed for short rail journeys. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A city the size of Melbourne cannot rely on V\/Line anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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