Returning to Daniel Andrews’ press convention, which stretched previous the hour-and-a-half mark, and the premier has defended his stance on the Suburban Rail Loop, its costings to this point and future estimates.
It comes after The Herald Solar revealed a entrance web page this morning with the headline “Suburban Rail Dupe”. The newspaper’s lead story states that the premier has “backflipped” on a earlier promise to offer an estimated value for the total rail loop earlier than election day.
However throughout at the moment’s press convention, Andrews mentioned the following levels of the mission might be for future governments.
“Scope and scale and modelling and circumstances and circumstances, in fact they’ll be related then, however that’ll be a matter for future governments,” he mentioned. “That’s the character of multi-generational investments.
“We have now offered all of the documentation for all of the levels we’re proud to place ahead and that we’re constructing.
“However should you don’t construct stage one and two now, you’re simply leaving that to another person. Within the meantime, we don’t get the roles and abilities, these lots of of hundreds of playing cards off the street. All of the whereas, Melbourne will get larger and greater and we develop into the most important metropolis within the nation with no world-class public transport system.”
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The Andrews authorities final 12 months launched its enterprise and funding case for the Suburban Rail Loop, which confirmed the primary stage would value between $30-$35 billion, and the second stage between $20-$27 billion.
The enterprise and funding case said that the primary stage of the mission, between Cheltenham and Field Hill, stacked up as a result of the advantages of the primary two levels have been assessed.
Regardless of offering these figures final 12 months, Andrews has repeatedly refused to offer a extra exact and up to date quantity for the estimated value of the second stage of the mission.
As you would possibly already remember, the Coalition has vowed to drop the Suburban Rail Loop and spend the cash that might be saved on healthcare.
