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THE Victorian Government’s latest public transport investment has caused frustration on the peninsula as local leaders say the region has been overlooked. The 2026/26 Victorian Budget includes almost $100m for bus network upgrades across regional and metro Victoria and promises longer operating hours, new routes, and improved weekend services. Josh Sinclair, CEO Committee for Frankston and Mornington Peninsula, said the peninsula will see no benefits from the new investment. “Despite 82% of the Mornington Peninsula Shire having no access to public transport, the Victorian government’s $100m Budget ‘bonanza’ features no new, additional, or amended routes for Mornington Peninsula residents,” Sinclair…

WHEN MP for Hastings Paul Mercurio announced that funding had been secured for a cross-peninsula bus service, he must have realised that it wouldn’t please everybody. Indeed, it has been a century-long debate about how to better connect both sides of the peninsula, and there have been many false starts. The battle for improved public transport on the peninsula has raged on for more than a century. On 17 April 1925, the Frankston and Somerville Standard announced “Mornington residents are hopeful that the railway from Frankston will be electrified. The work is due to be undertaken next, after the electrification…