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    V/Line commuters let down as buses replace trains during Victoria's free public transport solution to fuel crisis
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    V/Line commuters let down as buses replace trains during Victoria’s free public transport solution to fuel crisis

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    1. hawthorne00 on

      Breaking: scheduled maintenance occurs; living hours from the city has costs as well as advantages.

    2. altandthrowitaway on

      I can understand why people are upset. Yes maintenance works are unavoidable and would’ve been planned long before the fuel shortage was a thing.

      A big problem I have is that with all these maintenance works, there’s still issues like the fact most of the Warrnambool line is single track only and trains get stuck in passing loops, adding extra travel time. The tracks after Geelong still aren’t capable of 160kmph and there’s no plans to upgrade it. The bridge just after Geelong is only single track and is a bottleneck, but the government says it’s too expensive to upgrade. Similarly with platform extensions to allow for 6 carriage sets, there’s nothing planned at all.

      You’ve got all these closures, but rarely does it actually improve on what’s already there.

    4. gazmal on

      This is just too stupid. These track works would have been planned months in advance. Nothing to do with free PT or war in Iran.

    5. aussiebolshie on

      Nah, beautiful idea ABC. Defer the track, signal and overhead works. Send through trains that have double the usual patronage. Would be a GREAT outcome hey.

      Probably would be for them because then they’d have a tragedy to blame on the state government.

      In any case. Even if the replacement services are buses instead of trains, fuck me dead, they are free.

      You can tell that Newscorp coded bald insecure Israel loving gimp Kim Williams is running ‘our’ ABC now based on the stream of bullshit like this that gets produced in every state other than Queensland and Tassie. If it doesn’t suit Rupert’s interests, he won’t publish it.

    6. pink_apophyllite on

      V/Line has just notoriously been awful for years. The free public transport month doesn’t change that it is outdated, inferior and simply can’t meet demand regularly.

    7. Iwasbanished on

      with extra tax dollars we could invest it into public transport, we’d be using less fuel too. less road traffic too. and more jobs created during the creation.