{"id":264627,"date":"2025-08-10T11:37:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T01:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=264627"},"modified":"2025-08-10T11:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T01:37:31","slug":"will-australia-ever-get-a-high-speed-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=264627","title":{"rendered":"Will Australia ever get a high-speed rail?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It feels like there&#8217;s never much of a progress report when it comes to where things are at with the proposed high-speed rail line between Sydney and Newcastle. The federal government is still yet to commit to building the game-changing infrastructure despite the establishment of the High Speed Rail Authority in 2023.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elias Visontay is the Transport and Urban Affairs Reporter with the Guardian and has been looking at how they&#8217;re doing things in the US, and what lessons we could learn here in Australia. Elias joins Chris Taylor for a chat about Australia&#8217;s Speed Rail.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/listen\/programs\/nightlife\/speed-rail\/105383252\">https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/listen\/programs\/nightlife\/speed-rail\/105383252<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government is still yet to commit to building the game-changing infrastructure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":148143,"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":[273,7665,47],"tags":[4552,5026,2139],"class_list":["post-264627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-high-speed-rail-2","category-rail-news","tag-newcastle","tag-nsw","tag-sydney"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264627","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264628,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264627\/revisions\/264628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/148143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}