The federal government's contribution to Victoria's most expensive project in history has risen to $6 billion but falls short of the state government's request.

How do we all feel about the SRL?

Personally, I don’t hate it, but feel like money could have been better spent on numerous cheaper projects (like tram/train extentions for interconnectivity, or massively increasing bus frequencies and rationalising bus routes).

But I’m glad for any money to be spent on better public transport, and not more roads.

X-Posted to c/Melbourne

  • pHr34kYEnglish
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    3 months ago

    We’re broke, but we blew all the money on rail projects that were actually delivered so I’m not bothered.

    • MisterFrog@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      We spent more money on roads, I believe :(

      North East link, double the price (iirc) than the Metro tunnel

      Metro Tunnel 2, city loop reconfiguration and a number of other projects (Melton electrification has been coming now for more than 10 years now lol) unfortunately haven’t (yet) come to pass.

      I believe we were better of with Labor, than what would have happened under the LNP, but I don’t accept that infrastructure spending on public transport vs roads has been ideal.

      We’ll never solve traffic with more roads, we really ought to maintain the ones we have, and optimise them where we can - but massive enlargements really need to be a thing of the past.

      The only solution to traffic are viable alternatives to driving, so the vehicles that actually need to be there (delivery, emergency services, disabled people) can be there with much less traffic.

      • Jesse@aus.social
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        2 months ago

        @MisterFrog @pHr34kY yeah, North-East Link was supposed to be $16 billion in construction costs and cost $100 billion over it’s life time. But was predicted to produce $110 billion in value (In truck freight, roads for cars are always massive losses). But a $10 billion cost overrun means that it definitely won’t produce any value at all.