{"id":308236,"date":"2025-10-28T14:20:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T04:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=308236"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T04:20:24","slug":"plans-for-melbournes-airport-rail-link-are-back-on-track-but-theres-still-a-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=308236","title":{"rendered":"Plans for Melbourne\u2019s Airport Rail link are back on track, but there&#8217;s still a catch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Melbourne&#8217;s Airport Rail link is finally back on track, with design plans expected to be finalised in the coming months. But it seems the project is still not a priority for the government and could still be a decade away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project is far from being on track and decades away.   I love the comment from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=matthew-guy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Matthew Guy\">Matthew Guy<\/a> about 8 years in and we know where the escalators are going to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am not a fan of the idea of an above ground station.  900 metres from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?cat=515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Qantas\">Qantas<\/a> Domestic Terminal are you kidding me?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How to stuff a project before it has begun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Plans for Melbourne\u2019s Airport Rail link are back on track, but there&#039;s still a catch | 7NEWS\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uNJywJyWNfk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne&#8217;s Airport Rail link is finally back on track, with design plans expected to be finalised in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":180344,"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":[35,17733],"tags":[11625,993,8],"class_list":["post-308236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-marl","tag-matthew-guy","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308236","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=308236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308238,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308236\/revisions\/308238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/180344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}