Fw: Wed.4.6.25 daily digest, austerity issue

[Roderick Smith]

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Subject: Wed.4.6.25 daily digest, austerity issue

Roderick

Yesterday was mistitled Wed.3.6.25; it should have been Tues.3.6.25

Wed.4.6.25 Metro X
13.02  Frankston line: Major delays clearing after an overhead-power fault in the Chelsea area.  Trains may be altered.
13.26 Pakenham/Cranbourne lines - Major delays (a trespasser in the Clayton area).  Trains may remain stationary for extended periods at or between stations, or may terminate/originate at intermediate stations.
- 13.48 clearing.
15.02 Stony Point line: Major delays (an equipment fault in the Frankston area).  Trains may be altered.
- 15.58 Buses to replace trains between Frankston and Stony Point (vandalism), eta over 30 min.
- 16.02  Buses are replacing trains, adding 30 min.
- 19.00 Buses will replace trains until the last one tonight.
18.58  Major delays after police attended to disruptive passenger in the Coburg area, plus a train fault at Upfield.
- 19.26 clearing.
Buses replace trains between Westall and Cranbourne / East Pakenham from 20.00 until the last train (works).  https://tinyurl.com/yuv38e5n
Buses replace trains between Newport and Werribee from 20.30 until the last train (works).  https://tinyurl.com/bdd8a22e
21.20 Mernda/Hurstbridge lines: Major delays (a passenger incident at Jolimont).  Trains may be held at or between stations.
- 21.38 Trains may terminate/originate at intermediate stations.
- 22.40 clearing.
23.02 all lines except Sandringham: Delays expected after a vehicle hit Spencer St bridge, near Southern Cross.  Trains may run direct to/from Flinders St [by having three northern reversing the loop direction?].
- 23.14 clearing.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/it-took-a-decade-for-southern-cross-station-to-install-bins-this-might-be-why-20250604-p5m4un.html

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/matt-johnston-sovietstyle-allan-government-refusing-to-reveal-true-metro-tunnel-cost/news-story/3ce20a5d3556f1427f7f5f85585f73f7

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/bendigo/tafadzwa-mhindurwa-23-pleads-guilty-to-bendigo-vline-train-attack/news-story/7cce16b7e8994e4bc46fc2baab557284