{"id":296786,"date":"2025-10-06T09:46:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T23:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=296786"},"modified":"2025-10-06T09:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T23:46:36","slug":"sleepless-in-clifton-hill-new-level-crossing-bells-keep-residents-wide-awake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=296786","title":{"rendered":"Sleepless in Clifton Hill: New level crossing bells keep residents wide awake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Residents say their lives have become hellish after Metro Trains installed new warning bells at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=clifton-hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Clifton Hill<\/a> rail crossing. Some are even moving out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new level crossing bells and or horn (if that is the right term) have been installed on some parts of the network and a much much louder than they need to be. You need to reach a car at the crossing or planning on crossing not the residents 600m away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clifton Hill has been in the wars this year.  With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=250958\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Metro Train derails at Clifton Hill closing the Hurstbridge and Mernda Lines\">derailment of the train at Clifton Hill<\/a> and the repeated longer term closures of the Hurstbridge Line it seems business as usual for Metro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing works when it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?cat=9770\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Metro Trains<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing works when it comes to Metro Trains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":250959,"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":[35,9770,47],"tags":[10198,993,8],"class_list":["post-296786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-metro-trains-melbourne","category-rail-news","tag-clifton-hill","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296786","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=296786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296789,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296786\/revisions\/296789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/250959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}