{"id":82196,"date":"2024-07-08T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T01:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=82196"},"modified":"2024-07-08T11:04:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T01:04:11","slug":"why-the-airport-rail-link-wont-be-an-express-service-to-and-from-the-cbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=82196","title":{"rendered":"Why the Airport Rail Link won\u2019t be an \u2018express service\u2019 to and from the CBD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A stalemate between Melbourne Airport and the state government over the long awaited airport rail link has come to an end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The airport has now backed down from its demand for an underground station, clearing the path for the project to proceed, with the hope it could be built by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melbourne Airport CEO Lorie Argus hopes the project is built, but told Tom Elliott \u201cit won\u2019t an airport express service direct from the airport to the city\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Press PLAY to hear her explain why + the new train station which will be a \u201cgame-changer\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-omny-studio wp-block-embed-omny-studio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Why the Airport Rail Link won&#039;t be an &#039;express service&#039; to and from the city\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-mornings\/why-the-airport-rail-link-wont-be-an-express-servi\/embed#?secret=f0PgrCL3Wl\" data-secret=\"f0PgrCL3Wl\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tom Elliott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stalemate between Melbourne Airport and the state government over the long awaited airport rail link has come to an end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":82199,"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":[35,513,47],"tags":[8054,8898,993,11298,8],"class_list":["post-82196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-melbourne-airport","category-rail-news","tag-3aw","tag-airport-rail","tag-melbourne","tag-tom-elliott","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82196","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82200,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82196\/revisions\/82200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}