{"id":262757,"date":"2025-08-07T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=262757"},"modified":"2025-08-06T20:33:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:33:24","slug":"v-line-scuttle-warrnambool-regional-students-ability-to-use-train-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=262757","title":{"rendered":"V\/Line scuttle Warrnambool regional students ability to use train service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The new VLocity train services have been criticised by local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=roma-britnell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">MP Roma Britnell<\/a>, who called the situation &#8220;a step backwards&#8221; for regional students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Brauer College excursion, planned for 90 students, could not be accommodated on a single service, even after attempts made 100 days in advance. The school was advised to hire a coach at substantial extra cost, a solution deemed impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MP has demanded the government urgently review booking policies and expand capacity to ensure regional schools can access educational experiences in Melbourne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state government was contacted for comment and V\/Line does not care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>V\/line is fast becoming a state based embarrassment but the transport minister is no where to be found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state government was contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":15302,"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":[47,186,181],"tags":[993,8,9949,12964],"class_list":["post-262757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail-news","category-v-line","category-vlocity","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria","tag-warrnambool","tag-warrnambool-line"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262757","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262757"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262811,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262757\/revisions\/262811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}