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We’re tired of waiting!

More trains, more often – Upgrade the Upfield, now!

At the moment if you live in Brunswick, Coburg, Hadfield or Fawkner, congrats – you have one of the slowest train services in Melbourne! Not the prize you want when it comes to great public transport unfortunately. Right now the Upfield line can only handle a maximum three trains an hour – its nowhere near enough for our growing community.

The State government’s Metro Tunnel project was supposed to upgrade our train line to allow for more frequent train services, but State Labor have dropped the additional works needed to make this a reality.

We need to upgrade the Upfield, now.

The Greens are fighting for trains at least every ten minutes on the Upfield line, to properly cater to all the people in our neighbourhoods commuting for work, school or fun. We’ll push for federal funding to cover the gap that the state Labor government has left, so the Upfield line is duplicated all the way to allow for more frequent services.

This is another example of Labor being all talk and no action. They’ve promised this upgrade for years, but have let down the community again.

With more Greens in Parliament we can fight for the things the community needs, like fast and frequent public transport.

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