Thursday, 4 June 2026

 Sarah CONNOLLY (Laverton) (14:37): (1671) My question is for the Minister for Public and Active Transport. Last month we learned that those opposite are planning on ripping trains off the Melton and Wyndham Vale lines. Whilst our budget makes sure that all peak hour services on the Wyndham Vale line will have nine-car trains, boosting capacity by 50 per cent, those opposite, in the member for Bulleen’s own words, will leave these lines thin. What folks in Melbourne’s west have to look forward to if those opposite were elected this coming November is not only tens of thousands of more homes dumped in the outer suburbs, putting further pressure on our roads and our rail, but they are going to take our trains away at the same time. It goes to show they do not know who we are in the western suburbs, and they will never deliver what we need. My question for the minister is this: how many passengers on the Melton and Wyndham Vale lines, including in my electorate of Laverton, will be impacted by taking these trains off these very, very busy rail corridors?