Tuesday, 14 October 2025

 Michael GALEA (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (13:01): My question is for the Minister for Transport Infrastructure, and it concerns the Metro Tunnel. With the summer start coming in December, passengers on the Cranbourne and Pakenham lines will be able to try out the new Metro Tunnel for themselves. With 240 new services each week on top of the existing timetable, they will be able to then go to all of the new five underground stations, see those connections for themselves and take part in that experience before the big switch comes on 1 February, when we will see a thousand new weekly services across the Metro network to provide that turn-up-and-go service across so much more of metropolitan Melbourne. There are going to be more services, which means more frequency, which means more convenient interchanges and it also means less crowding, so it will not be like the Liberal Party frontbench – we will not all be crammed in together. More services provide more opportunities for all people across the city. Minister, how will this big switch benefit the Cranbourne and Pakenham line that I represent?