Tuesday, 28 October 2025

 Nick McGOWAN (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:50): My question is for the minister for transport. Minister, it has come to my attention that in addition to not having a public toilet, Ringwood East train station has the longest wait times for any station from the CBD, with services every half an hour in off-peak. If I miss a train at Ringwood East on a weekday, it is faster for me to walk to Ringwood station than it is to wait for another train. Conversely, I might find the time to walk all the way to a public toilet. Williamstown, Werribee and Frankston all have services every 20 minutes until midnight. The Network Development Plan – Metropolitan Rail said by 2016 there would be improved evening services to the Ringwood, Belgrave and Lilydale lines, with trunk services operating every 10 minutes and branch services operating every 20 minutes, mirroring the intra-peak services and levels. Frankston got these upgrades, but Ringwood did not. With the Metro Tunnel soon to be completed, when will the Belgrave and Lilydale lines receive the upgraded services that every other line has?