Thursday, 26 May 2022

Northern Victoria Region

Mr QUILTY (Northern Victoria) (12:42): (1811) My constituency question is for the Minister for Public Transport. Once again V/Line passengers travelling between Melbourne and northern Victoria have been faced with substandard services. Last Wednesday passengers arrived only to discover there would be significant delays due to a communications outage. Several constituents contacted my office to convey their frustration that once again they found themselves inconvenienced by the inability of V/Line to run a service that meets the time frames expected. The unreliability of V/Line services leaves passengers scrambling to reorganise commitments they can no longer reach, whether it is connecting travel arrangements, business appointments or just getting home to their families. Now that there are passengers again, northern Victorians are back to experiencing slow, late and cancelled trains. All of northern Victoria needs reliable passenger train services. Minister, when will you make the northern Victorian trains run on time?