{"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<p>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<p>Just the other day we found only a single line in service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only is Victoria suffering from bad transport planning on the rail network, it can be revealed the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=231759\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">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<p>Last week the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=241529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">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&#8217;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<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=241432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">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<p>A city the size of Melbourne cannot rely on V\/Line anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just the other day we found only a single line in service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":248100,"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":[10073,47,186],"tags":[4239,10852,4598,15331],"class_list":["post-248099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-myki","category-rail-news","category-v-line","tag-ballarat","tag-bendigo","tag-geelong","tag-sale"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248099","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=248099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248105,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248099\/revisions\/248105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/248100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}