{"id":268638,"date":"2025-08-18T14:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T04:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=268638"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:30:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:30:03","slug":"the-mega-rail-project-we-couldve-had-instead-of-suburban-rail-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=268638","title":{"rendered":"The mega rail project we could\u2019ve had instead of Suburban Rail Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A major rail project that would connect Melbourne\u2019s west and north via a second metro tunnel is unlikely to be built for decades given the Allan government has prioritised the Suburban Rail Loop, transport experts say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But is this really true?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state could have proceeded with both rail projects but instead caved into a union and undertook an environmentally damaging project called North East Link now with a flawed business case and a $40b price tag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who actually asked for this congestion causing project?  What other cities in the world are building such damaging and polluting toll roads such as this road?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No economic benefits can be found, more cars and trucks onto t he eastern freeway to cause even more congestion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>North East Link the road no one in Victoria wanted or asked for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro Metro Tunnel 2 is now decades away when it is desperately needed now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":268639,"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":[1168,47,8160],"tags":[8634,993,7590,8],"class_list":["post-268638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro-tunnel","category-rail-news","category-suburban-rail-loop","tag-jacinta-allan","tag-melbourne","tag-north-east-link","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268638","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=268638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268642,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268638\/revisions\/268642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/268639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}