{"id":390709,"date":"2026-03-21T14:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T04:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=390709"},"modified":"2026-03-21T14:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T04:37:11","slug":"geelong-v-line-train-chaos-on-thursday-commute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=390709","title":{"rendered":"Geelong V\/Line Train chaos on Thursday commute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Big delays for V\/Line passengers on the Geelong Line this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rail operator has reported an equipment fault between Geelong and Waurn Ponds. There are also service delays near Corio due to level crossing damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Platforms are packed with passengers ditching the car to take the train to Melbourne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It comes as politicians have ignited calls for free public transport to limit car use while petrol prices remain high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big delays for V\/Line passengers on the Geelong Line this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":165413,"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":[47,186],"tags":[4598,8,13489],"class_list":["post-390709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail-news","category-v-line","tag-geelong","tag-victoria","tag-waurn-ponds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390709","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=390709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390711,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390709\/revisions\/390711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/165413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}