Eco-Transit, a Sydney based public transport lobby group have made an excellent short video examining the cost blow outs of rail infrastructure in NSW, and comparing these inflated costs to contemporary projects. As is clear from the $870 million figure that Minister Corbell straight facedly quotes for a Gungahlin to Civic light rail project, this disease seems to have crept across the border.
Website for ACT Light Rail, the predecessor to the PTCBR Public Transport Association of Canberra
As a working mother I need to drop off and collect children before and after work as well as shop on the way home - so you are asking me to catch a tram as well! I dont think so! What a terrible waste of money when so much is needed for health care, aged care, child care etc
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