Melbourne rail plan botched: Andrews

The Victorian government's Melbourne rail plan is botched and will cut services, stations and the south east from the city loop, Labor says.

Victorian Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews says the metropolitan rail project unveiled as the centrepiece of Tuesday's 2014/15 budget came from a desperate premier petrified he will lose the November state election.

Mr Andrews said the project would put a new station in the wrong location - near Crown Casino to service a development site at Fishermans Bend - at the expense of a planned station in the Parkville hospital and university precinct.

"To build stations where no one lives at the expense of stations where hundreds of thousands of Victorians come to work and visit every single day does nothing to improve public transport," he told reporters on Wednesday.

Mr Andrews said not only have stations and services been cut from the original metro rail plan proposal, but Melbourne's south east has been cut out of the city loop and Flinders Street.

Mr Andrews says Labor will not proceed with the government's metropolitan rail project, instead focusing on its version which involves a doubling of the city loop.

If elected, Labor would allocate $300 million in the 2015/16 state budget for planning.

"Labor will build Melbourne metro, we'll do it once and we'll do it properly," he said.

Mr Andrews said the government's version was botched and ill conceived.

"Denis Napthine's heart is not in public transport and neither's his head."

Mr Andrews said the budget also failed to improve hospital emergency department overcrowding, there was nothing to solve the paramedics pay dispute and it would do little for elective surgery waiting lists.