{"id":263849,"date":"2025-11-05T08:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/263849\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T08:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:01:10","slug":"major-train-road-delays-after-truck-strikes-two-bridges-near-melbourne-cbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/263849\/","title":{"rendered":"Major train, road delays after truck strikes two bridges near Melbourne CBD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/melbourne\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Melbourne\">Melbourne<\/a> rail commuters and motorists are facing a long journey home after a truck struck two separate underpasses near the city this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A large truck carrying an excavator struck the Alexandra Avenue bridge in Cremorne about 2.35pm, causing the excavator&#8217;s bucket to crash onto the road.<\/p>\n<p>The same truck then hit a \ufeffrail overpass at the outbound entrance of Citylink at Batman Avenue and Punt Road about 3.15pm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/b47497f7-dde5-45cb-ab1e-e659f865f719.png\"   alt=\"The excavator became trapped at the on-ramp to Citylink at Batman Avenue this afternoon.\"\/>The excavator became trapped at the on-ramp to Citylink at Batman Avenue this afternoon. (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>Traffic that had banked up behind the truck was forced to reverse to give crews access to remove the excavator.<\/p>\n<p>The truck was moved to the left lane and traffic was moving through on the right.<\/p>\n<p>All trains on the Sandringham, Frankston, Pakenham and Cranbourne lines were halted until bridge inspectors deemed the tracks safe.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s understood trains are slowly returning to service, but residual delays of up to 20 minutes are expected.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffThe truck driver is expected to face penalties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne rail commuters and motorists are facing a long journey home after a truck struck two separate underpasses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-263849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}