00:02Full steam ahead to November.
00:05The residents of Melton have been ignored for far too long.
00:08Usually on opposite sides of the track,
00:10the Liberals and Labor are both promising train services will get better.
00:14Sometimes it's 40 minutes, sometimes it's an hour if it's weekend.
00:18Cutting the ribbon on the new Melton station,
00:21the government's plan is not a new story for this marginal seat.
00:25It's definitely frustrating.
00:27If anyone votes Labor, I'm going to absolutely scream.
00:28Daniel Andrews promised to get Melton and Wyndham Vale lines
00:32onto improved metro services with electrified tracks back in 2018.
00:38And in 2022.
00:41But Labor's plan will roll on into the next decade.
00:45The government doesn't have a timeframe set.
00:47It just takes time because things have to be put in place
00:50in order for it to happen as successfully as possible.
00:53The opposition wants to boost capacity in the meantime
00:56by trialling 25 bigger hybrid electric trains for $1.7 billion.
01:04Not promises, not press releases, not excuses from a dying government,
01:09but a plan to do something.
01:11Hopefully within four years, when the next election comes around.
01:16But Labor is sticking to its line.
01:19We're not going off on a bizarre side quest.
01:23Arguing hybrid trains wouldn't work with the City Loop or Metro Tunnel.
01:27Ridiculous.
01:27You could put a steam train in the City Loop if you really wanted to.
01:31Experts say there are serious questions about how it would work.
01:35It's good that they're thinking about what can be improved for Western Melbourne
01:38in terms of public transport.
01:40The government is under pressure in the Western suburbs.
01:43It used to be Labor Party heartland.
01:46But there is a frustration in this growing community
01:49that they've been left behind with poorer services and infrastructure.
01:53It's something the Coalition and One Nation are looking to capitalise on.
