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The Guardian - AU
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Brodie Lancaster

The opening of Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel has turned me into a shameless train ambassador

Town Hall train station after Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel opened to commuters on Sunday. The projects consists of five new stations.
Town Hall train station after Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel opened to commuters on Sunday. The projects consists of five new train stations. Photograph: Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images

I think people assumed I was doing a bit when I turned into a Metro Tunnel-head.

Overnight, my Instagram Stories went from pictures of my cat, pub dinners and movies I was recommending to a site of updates and exclamation marks counting down the days until the new massive infrastructure project opened to Melbourne commuters, allowing me to zip from suburbs buttressing one end of the city to those on the other end.

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