A light rail network across Canberra would have cost $421 million in 1995

Canberra Times 11 Jan 1995

The recent signing of a contract to construct and operate Capital Metro Stage One shows that it will cost $707 million dollars. Of that, the ACT are paying $375 million upon completion, and the rest over a 20 year period. Those payments over 20 years also include operational costs.

That does seem like a lot of money, but light rail could have cost us a lot less and been completed twenty years ago. In 1995 it was estimated that a four route light rail network across Canberra would have cost $421 million.

Missed opportunities cost us a lot in the long term. Build light rail now.

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