{"id":260213,"date":"2025-08-01T16:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T06:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=260213"},"modified":"2025-08-01T16:16:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T06:16:49","slug":"expert-says-socialising-melbourne-train-network-not-that-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=260213","title":{"rendered":"Expert says socialising Melbourne train network \u2018not that simple\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ptua.org.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Public Transport Users Association<\/a> spokesperson Daniel Bowen explained the effects of socialising the train network in Melbourne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtbuvic.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">RTBU<\/a> are actively investigating the potential for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=260122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">\u2018socialising\u2019 the train network<\/a>, which would put it back under public administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s that simple \u2026 It doesn\u2019t necessarily guarantee you good outcome,\u201d he said on<em>&nbsp;3AW.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>What a load of rot are they on the payroll of the owner of Metro trains Franchise?  Please remember this is a right wing radio station with Tom Elliott opposed to Public Transport and a government owning or running anything other than toll roads.  I would take this muck with a grain of salt.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Press PLAY to hear the FULL interview<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-omny-studio wp-block-embed-omny-studio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Expert says socialising Melbourne train network &#039;not that simple&#039;\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-mornings\/expert-says-socialising-melbourne-train-network-not-that-simple\/embed#?secret=cYnq8V6DWW\" data-secret=\"cYnq8V6DWW\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image: by Michael Dodge\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a load of rot are they on the payroll of the owner of Metro trains Franchise?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":260214,"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":[9770,10073,47],"tags":[8054,993,8],"class_list":["post-260213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro-trains-melbourne","category-myki","category-rail-news","tag-3aw","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260213","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=260213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260220,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260213\/revisions\/260220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/260214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}