Save the Gippsland Line

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Dear Daniel Andrews,

We the citizens and people of Gippsland do not agree with the recommendation that regional train services be terminated at Pakenham and our vulnerable, disabled and elderly be forced to change trains on their journey to Melbourne. Many of these people are the disadvantaged of our community, often seeking medical assistance & appointments in metropolitan medical centres that are not available in our region.

This change would also affect the bike tourists and young families who would also have difficulty with young children, prams and bikes changing trains to and from crowded metropolitan rail. The Gippsland area is being promoted as a great tourist region with economic benefits and as a way of overcoming the demise of the coal and timber mill industry and continual rail service is a must for this to succeed.

Other frequent users of the system are our people who work in the metropolitan centres and choose to live in the regional and rural areas here for the lifestyle and community opportunities that we have. The current system is unreliable and often runs late, this additional transfer and changeover time will add to the already overly long trip and decrease the reliability of the transport system to them, not to mention the additional time needed to be added to the start of the trip, getting up earlier, the changes in timetables that will be required etc.

We understand that the cost of upgrading the metropolitan system is a burden, but can Gippsland at least have the same standard as the other Victorian regions, that our Melbourne trains actually go to Melbourne, as they now do.

The Federal Minister for Infrastructure who is a resident here has promised his support in working with the state government to help sort the congestion problem.

We ask that you do not accept this part of the report from the citizens jury on face value and seek further consultation with the impacted communities and federal counterparts as you work towards an upgrading of the lines to at least the standard that the other Victorian Regions rail systems already have.

 

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  • Louise Stewart
    posted about this on Facebook 2016-08-07 14:09:28 +1000
    A Melbourne train should go to Melbourne, why does the Gippsland regional line get substandard service recommended?
  • Louise Stewart
    signed via 2016-08-07 14:08:14 +1000
  • Heather Hayman
    signed 2016-08-07 14:00:56 +1000
  • Robert Jeffries
    posted about this on Facebook 2016-08-07 13:59:29 +1000
    A Melbourne train should go to Melbourne, why does the Gippsland regional line get substandard service recommended?
  • Glenda Dowd
    signed 2016-08-07 13:58:37 +1000
  • Wendy Hale
    posted about this on Facebook 2016-08-07 13:56:56 +1000
    A Melbourne train should go to Melbourne, why does the Gippsland regional line get substandard service recommended?
  • Jenny Love
    posted about this on Facebook 2016-08-07 13:56:26 +1000
    A Melbourne train should go to Melbourne, why does the Gippsland regional line get substandard service recommended?
  • Izaac Richards
    signed 2016-08-07 13:56:12 +1000
  • Jenny Love
    signed 2016-08-07 13:55:31 +1000
    I often fly to Melbourne & then catch the train to Morwell or Moe to visit my elderly parents & am often accompanied by young grandchildren. It is easy & convenient to travel this way. I won’t travel another way. I hope the controlling bodies come to their senses.
  • Caitie Delaney
    signed 2016-08-07 13:55:02 +1000
    This completely stupid my 73 year old grandmother uses this service weekly and I can only imagine what a pain it would be for her to disrupt her travel travel plans to wait in the cold unsafe and shalterless pakenham platform. I currently don’t want this for her or her friends she often travels with, when they are already on a warm, safe and conductor petorled v/line!
  • Prabha Jones
    signed 2016-08-07 13:44:59 +1000
  • Brianan Ramage
    signed 2016-08-07 13:43:48 +1000
  • Kirrily Howden
    posted about this on Facebook 2016-08-07 13:43:05 +1000
    Rail services are vital to access specialist medical services in the City. Please sign and share!
  • Jane Sahhar
    signed 2016-08-07 13:42:33 +1000
  • Kirrily Howden
    signed 2016-08-07 13:41:10 +1000
    The freeway between Nar Nar Goon and Dandenong is grossly inadequate and extremely dangerous with traffic going from 100km to nearly standstill without warning. Check your stats on the road accidents in that region. If we are to be able to fairly access specialist medical treatments in the City we MUST retain the regional rail system. This is a serious issue for families and individuals who are most vulnerable!
  • Tracey Challis
    posted about this on Facebook 2016-08-07 13:39:25 +1000
    A Melbourne train should go to Melbourne, why does the Gippsland regional line get substandard service recommended?
  • Tracey Challis
    signed 2016-08-07 13:38:23 +1000
    Tracey Challis
  • Daniel Jacob
    signed 2016-08-07 13:32:43 +1000
  • John Sellens
    signed 2016-08-07 13:32:09 +1000
    Hands off our trains, that’s our transport, to work, because the governments gave away to foreign, every thing else up here.
  • Dorothy Womersley
    signed 2016-08-07 13:32:09 +1000
  • Barb Delfsma
    signed 2016-08-07 13:30:18 +1000
    Mr Andrews who claims to care about ALL Victorians only thinks of the city.
  • Coral Briscoe
    posted about this on Facebook 2016-08-07 13:29:41 +1000
    A Melbourne train should go to Melbourne, why does the Gippsland regional line get substandard service recommended?
  • Coral Briscoe
    signed 2016-08-07 13:29:11 +1000
    It is absolute ridiculous to suggest that the elderly, the long distant traveller, the disabled, will have to get off the country VicRail Traralgon/Melbourne line at Pakenham. Such plans should immediately be shelved.
  • Shelley Duncan
    posted about this on Facebook 2016-08-07 13:26:31 +1000
    A Melbourne train should go to Melbourne, why does the Gippsland regional line get substandard service recommended?
  • Nicole Juratowitch
    posted about this on Facebook 2016-08-07 13:22:33 +1000
    A Melbourne train should go to Melbourne, why does the Gippsland regional line get substandard service recommended?
  • Simin Carter
    signed 2016-08-07 13:22:25 +1000
  • Nicole Juratowitch
    signed 2016-08-07 13:21:57 +1000
  • Michael Velleman
    signed 2016-08-07 13:16:45 +1000
  • Kevin Mullinsk
    signed 2016-08-07 13:16:15 +1000
  • Rodney Dunbar
    signed 2016-08-07 13:13:20 +1000
    Both my wife and I are disabled and we have traveled on the met its inposable to get on in peak time with a wheel chair and if you need help again it’s inposable