Thursday, 16 October 2025

 Ryan BATCHELOR (Southern Metropolitan) (12:48): (1885) Shortly after the Premier announced that the Metro Tunnel will be opening in early December and those beautiful pictures of the new State Library station were beamed across the media, I was chatting to some residents in Caulfield who are particularly keen to go and check out that brand new State Library station. We know that Caulfield station connects to the Metro Tunnel, so they can go and check out all five of those new stations on the Metro Tunnel. And what they will be able to do is take advantage of the free public transport on the weekends over summer as part of the summer start of the Metro Tunnel – free for everyone, everywhere, every weekend over this summer. My question to the Minister for Public and Active Transport is: how will the free public transport benefit the community of the Southern Metropolitan Region?