{"id":83077,"date":"2024-07-09T15:52:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T05:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=83077"},"modified":"2024-07-09T16:33:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T06:33:49","slug":"geelong-fast-rail-project-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=83077","title":{"rendered":"Geelong Fast Rail Project, dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Australian Government is undertaking a 90-day review of its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/investment.infrastructure.gov.au\/\">Infrastructure Investment Program<\/a>, with jointly funded Victorian projects that are not election commitments or under major construction to be included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early works on Geelong Fast Rail continue, but no new contracts will be awarded during the review period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This website will be updated with further information when it is available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Project Map<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFR-Benefit-Map-1024x702.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFR-Benefit-Map-1024x702.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFR-Benefit-Map-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFR-Benefit-Map-768x526.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFR-Benefit-Map.png 1135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Werribee corridor has been selected as the route to deliver faster services for Geelong, with new dedicated track between Werribee and Laverton for Geelong trains, cutting average travel times for passengers by up to 15 minutes.<\/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=\"An overview of Geelong Fast Rail\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OIoydOR-Sbs?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\n\n\n<p>It is not clear any work has been completed on this project or it is still a valid project. Where has the Federal money gone?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another empty promise from the ALP with no substance?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early works on Geelong Fast Rail continue, but no new contracts will be awarded during the review period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":83078,"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":[273,999,47],"tags":[4598,993,10742,8],"class_list":["post-83077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-rail-news","tag-geelong","tag-melbourne","tag-south-geelong","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83077","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=83077"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83086,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83077\/revisions\/83086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}