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Written by Tim Richards on 2025-01-24 at 20:48

I'd be happy for the Vic Premier to announce the airport rail link is back on, even if it means the SRL is temporarily suspended. The airport train should never have been suspended in the first place. Sixty years we've been waiting for that!

"A dramatic collapse in popular support for the Victorian government has heaped pressure on Premier Jacinta Allan to accept an offer of an additional $2 billion in federal government funding to build a rail line to Melbourne Airport instead of demanding more cash for the Suburban Rail Loop."

[#]vicpol #SpringSt https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/extra-2b-in-federal-funds-on-table-to-revive-airport-link-amid-horror-poll-20250124-p5l71d.html

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Written by David Penington on 2025-01-24 at 21:44

@timrichards OTOH the suburban rail is for poor & average people to travel. The airport link is for people with the discretionary money to fly.

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Written by Tim Richards on 2025-01-25 at 01:44

@DavidPenington The airport link will use regular trains running through the network though, and most Australians travel at some point. Also it's been promised for 60 years - there's always some excuse to delay it.

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Written by David Penington on 2025-01-25 at 06:35

@timrichards Promised? I remember, in 2014, the Napthine govt advertising "we're building the Melbourne Airport rail link" using taxpayer money to advertise it. That was a (fradulant, thieving) claim of active building.

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