My constituency question is to the Minister for Public Transport, and it is about the ongoing “Third World” performance of trains on the north-east rail line. Specifically I refer to the atrocious punctuality figure for October of just 30.1 per cent. This is the worst number ever recorded in the historical monthly data on the V/Line website and means that less than one in every three trains are arriving even within the 11 minutes leeway allowed. The government is promising a completed north-east rail line upgrade at some time in the future. The Premier also advised my constituents last week to ‘just stick with us’. However, I ask the minister: what actions are specifically being taken in the meantime to urgently improve punctuality statistics that cause so many difficulties for passengers and are so completely unacceptable?
My constituency question is to the Minister for Public Transport, and it is about the ongoing “Third World” performance of trains on the north-east rail line. Specifically I refer to the atrocious punctuality figure for October of just 30.1 per cent. This is the worst number ever recorded in the historical monthly data on the V/Line website and means that less than one in every three trains are arriving even within the 11 minutes leeway allowed. The government is promising a completed north-east rail line upgrade at some time in the future. The Premier also advised my constituents last week to ‘just stick with us’. However, I ask the minister: what actions are specifically being taken in the meantime to urgently improve punctuality statistics that cause so many difficulties for passengers and are so completely unacceptable?
