{"id":325158,"date":"2025-11-29T15:23:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T05:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=325158"},"modified":"2025-11-29T15:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T05:28:13","slug":"melbourne-metro-tunnel-opens-sunday-after-decade-long-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=325158","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Metro Tunnel Opens Sunday After Decade-Long Build"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 9km twin tunnels connect the Sunbury line in the west to Cranbourne and Pakenham lines in the southeast, bypassing the busy City Loop with five new stations at Arden, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=parkville-station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Parkville Station\">Parkville<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=state-library-railway-station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"State Library Railway Station\">State Library<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=town-hall-railway-station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Town Hall Railway Station\">Town Hall<\/a>, and Anzac. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These stops bring easier access to universities, Royal Melbourne Hospital, and job centers along St Kilda Road. Services start Sunday under a limited schedule, with free weekend public transport through January and full peak-hour trains every three to four minutes from February 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New station masters Chris, Khon, Ajit, Eva, and Kasturi stand ready to guide the crowds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These stops bring easier access to universities, Royal Melbourne Hospital, and job centers along St Kilda Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":323635,"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":[1168,10073,47],"tags":[993,8],"class_list":["post-325158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro-tunnel","category-myki","category-rail-news","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325158","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=325158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325161,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325158\/revisions\/325161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/323635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}