“It’s time for the lights to turn on and new trains to start running,” says Lovell
THE traffic lights at the Wyndham Street level crossing have been a joke to locals from the moment they were installed, but never turned on. Liberal Member for Northern Victoria Wendy Lovell is no longer laughing.
Last year the Minister for Transport Infrastructure said that the Wyndham Street traffic lights would be integrated with the level crossing after the Shepparton Line Upgrade was complete.
Ms Lovell has demanded that the Allan Labor Government explain why the Wyndham Street traffic lights have not been turned on. She is also seeking answers on the promised nine weekday return train services, which have not commenced, given that five weeks have passed since the government’s announced completion date of the Shepparton rail line upgrade works.
“Shepparton residents have suffered years of delay and disruption to their train services during upgrade works, and now they deserve to benefit from significantly increased services,” said Ms Lovell.
Back in 2021 Jacinta Allan promised that by 2023 there would be nine return train services every weekday for passengers travelling between Shepparton and Melbourne, but failed to meet her own deadline and new services are now two years overdue.
“If the signalling work for Stage 3 of the Shepparton line upgrade is now complete – two years late – Labor has no excuses left: the government must turn on the Wyndham Street traffic lights and roll out the full nine weekday return services immediately,” said Ms Lovell.
“Jacinta Allan needs to stop with the spin and come clean about when she will fulfil her promise to deliver the full nine weekday returns services to Shepparton, because residents have run out of patience with Labor’s endless delays to critical service improvements.”
