{"id":5103,"date":"2012-03-14T12:26:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T01:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=5103"},"modified":"2012-03-14T12:26:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T01:26:44","slug":"call-to-arms-against-newport-rail-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2012\/03\/call-to-arms-against-newport-rail-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"Call To Arms Against Newport Rail Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Geelong’s commuters – (and Metro Trains Melbourne’s<\/a> Werribee and Williamstown commuters) – have endured another bout of “Newport Induced Delays” in recent weeks, with numerous power failures and “track equipment failures” grinding these three train lines to a halt for hours at a time.<\/p>\n

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V\/Line Commuters Want Answers After Latest Newport Failure<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n

This problem has been going on for a long time – (I previously discussed this over a year ago<\/a>) – yet we are still regularly confronted with this rubbish, that should be avoidable if someone would actually take ownership of the problem.<\/p>\n

Ownership of the problem? Yeah. Right.<\/p>\n

I have contacted the Victorian Minister for Transport, Terry Mulder, asking about what is going on, and what is going to be done about it?<\/p>\n

I have already received the following reply from a staffer:<\/p>\n

“Thank you for your email addressed to the Hon Terry Mulder MP, Minister for Public Transport and Minister for Roads, concerning the above. I wish to advise that a response will be forwarded in the near future.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obviously a canned response, but it will be interesting to see the final “response”.<\/p>\n

Chances are it will be another fairly benign “we are working towards improving services for all Victorians” kind of response, but we’ll see.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I call on all commuters to write and express your views towards Mr Mulder<\/a>, just so he understands the problems we are facing.<\/p>\n

Like a mosquito that keeps on biting, eventually they’ll have to stop and scratch the itch.<\/p>\n

So lets keep biting.<\/p>\n

We’ve had enough, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Geelong’s commuters – (and Metro Trains Melbourne’s Werribee and Williamstown commuters) – have endured another bout of “Newport Induced Delays” in recent weeks, with numerous power failures and “track equipment failures” grinding these three train lines to a halt for hours at a time. V\/Line Commuters Want Answers After Latest Newport Failure This problem has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[349,358,376,572],"class_list":["post-5103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transport","tag-metrotrains","tag-mulder","tag-newport","tag-vline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}