{"id":331543,"date":"2025-12-17T15:35:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=331543"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:45:12","slug":"b-double-heavy-vehicle-hits-major-rail-bridge-in-flemington-shuts-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=331543","title":{"rendered":"B-Double Heavy Vehicle hits major rail bridge in Flemington, shuts line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just when you thought it could not get any worse for heavy vehicles destroying local and major roads around Melbourne and the state, it seems they have decided now to destroy our rail infrastructre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heavy Vehicles are banned from Racecourse Road, Flemington and have been for an extended period.  The road freight industry is collapsing and as such could not care about laws and rules.  Vicroads do not care either they do nothing for the policing of these dangerous trucks around schools and residential streets.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image-29-1024x545.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-331670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image-29-1024x545.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image-29-300x160.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image-29-768x408.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image-29-1536x817.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image-29.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Now with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=331436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Tim Pallas and the West Gate Tunnel \u2013 Already a failure?\">West Gate Tunnel Open<\/a> why has this occurred?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The effect now has been to suspend all rail traffic on that line causing massive inconvenience to innocent  rail passengers.  People are sick and tired of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=98027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Why does Vicroads permit road trains to use suburban streets in Melbourne?\">inaction from Vicroads who have been mandating larger and more dangerous trucks<\/a> on Melbourne roads without a care in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why now should this driver keep their licence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy Vehicles are banned from Racecourse Road, Flemington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":259713,"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":[35,10073,47],"tags":[17468,993,8,11623],"class_list":["post-331543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-myki","category-rail-news","tag-flemington","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria","tag-west-gate-tunnel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331543","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=331543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331673,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331543\/revisions\/331673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/259713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}