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This is the rubbish you put up with when you have a Labor/Greens State Govt that rorted their way in.
Take note, watching our state go down the drain.

Pressure on to fix Melbourne’s transport mess as AFL Grand Final, spring carnival threatened

Transport chaos could plague Melburnians on Grand Final day and during the spring carnival, unions have threatened.
Trams were off the tracks for more than four hours on Thursday.
It was the sixth such stoppage of trams or trains in the past fortnight over a bitter pay dispute.
And 2000 angry taxi drivers added to the disarray by stampeding through the city, blocking major streets with their cabs as they demanded that the UberX driving service be outlawed.
The Rail Tram and Bus Union has threatened industrial action during the Grand Final and Spring Racing Carnival, and it could further strand passengers with 24-and 48-hour strikes.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/vi...nival-threatened/story-fni0fit3-1227521868379
 
SirRumpole said:
This is just rubbish.

Contractors knew that the Labor Party were not going to proceed with the project if they came to power, yet they signed the contracts anyway. They took the risk and the taxpayers should not have to pay up because the Mates in the Liberal Party threw public dollars in their direction.

The contractors should have waited untill after the election before signing.

Did anyone in the Liberal party benefit from these contracts ? Board positions perhaps ? Financial contributions ?
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Maybe it was, that no one thought the Labor Party were going to be such absolute F wits, I thought they would be.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/subscri...3efc4c5efada8dcff1de867e327&memtype=anonymous

Wow, who would have thought.:rolleyes:
 
sptrawler said:
Maybe it was, that no one thought the Labor Party were going to be such absolute F wits, I thought they would be.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/subscri...3efc4c5efada8dcff1de867e327&memtype=anonymous

Wow, who would have thought.:rolleyes:
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I can't read that except this:


East West decision haunts Premier
PREMIER Daniel Andrews’s decision to waste $1.1 billion killing off the East West Link has returned to haunt him, with his hand-picked infrastructure advisers listing it as a key project. In a sensational report to be released tomorrow,
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How true is that, given it's Newscorp.......... waste $1.1bn true/false? ........hand picked advisers true/false? ......... is it an election stunt true/false?
 
Yes, sptrawler, it was all about politics, and the fear of losing their seats to the Greens, that they backed down on the project.

Julia Gillard and Bill Shorten were both FOR the project, until Daniel Andrews backed down just before the election.

https://www.aussiestockforums.com/f...=30244&page=42&p=902530&viewfull=1#post902530

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East West Link decision returns to haunt Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews

PREMIER Daniel Andrews’s decision to waste $1.1 billion killing off the East West Link has returned to haunt him, with his hand-picked infrastructure advisers listing it as a key project.

In a sensational report to be released Thursday, Infrastructure Victoria lists the East West stages one and two as *important to “meet Victoria’s infrastructure needs’’.

Mr Andrews controversially dumped East West, despite contracts having been signed with the previous Napthine government.

Stage one of the $17 billion project would have provided a new tunnel connecting the Eastern Freeway to CityLink, with stage two connecting CityLink and the Western Ring Rd.

The new report backing East West will be highly embarrassing for Mr Andrews, who set up Infrastructure Victoria last year to provide independent advice on the state’s building needs.

It will also provide a boost to federal Liberal MPs in the eastern suburbs who are still campaigning for East West Link to be built and will put pressure on Labor leader Bill Shorten, who is fighting to hold on to marginal Labor seats in the outer east, Chisholm and Bruce.

Mr Andrews said in October he was setting up Infrastructure Victoria to “give us clear, expert advice that is independent of politics and focused on our state’s priorities’’.

The body is due to release its “foundation paper’’ on Thursday.

A copy was seen by the Herald Sun, and it examines Victoria’s infrastructure needs for the next 30 years.

“The purpose of this paper is to put all the options we’ve thought of for meeting Victoria’s infrastructure needs on the table and to invite you to contribute your views and ideas,’’ it states.

Under the headline “new and expanded assets’’ in one section of the report, it lists: “Eastern Freeway to CityLink connection (EWE) ”” improve connectivity across the city from east to west linking the Eastern Freeway to CityLink.

“CityLink to Western Ring Road connection (EWW) ”” Improve connectivity across the city from west to east, linking CityLink with M80.’’

The 148-page “All Things Considered’’ report also includes controversial options such as closing small rural schools, building a second Melbourne port, a third international airport in Melbourne’s southeast, expanding the desalination plant at Wonthaggi and using recycled water for human consumption.

But it is the ghost of the East West Link, which will haunt Mr Andrews, who pledged before the 2014 state election to tear up the contract because it “wasn’t worth the paper it was written on’’.

The report makes no mention of the government’s priority road project, the $5.5 billion Western Distributor, proposed by private toll road operator Transurban, which links the West Gate Freeway to CityLink.

The release of the report will also provide another headache for Mr Shorten.

As head of the Australian Workers Union and the member for Maribyrnong, Mr Shorten twice wrote letters backing the East West Link project.

But after Mr Andrews axed it, Mr Shorten said he no longer supported it being built.

Liberal MP for the federal seat of Deakin, Michael Sukkar, said the report showed how flawed the decision was to kill off the East West Link.

“This report confirms Bill Shorten’s absolute lack of judgment when he backed Daniel Andrews’s decision to waste $1.1b of taxpayers’ money cancelling the East West Link,’’ he said.
 
“This report confirms Bill Shorten’s absolute lack of judgment when he backed Daniel Andrews’s decision to waste $1.1b of taxpayers’ money cancelling the East West Link,’’ he said.
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What has Bill Shorten's backing got to do with a State Govt's electoral policy (what LNP people call a mandate), he was a Federal pollie in opposition ... don't get it.
 
The Labor Party campaigned on not building the road and won. So should we blame them or the voters ?
 
SirRumpole said:
The Labor Party campaigned on not building the road and won. So should we blame them or the voters ?
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Agreed. They had to pull the pin on this project.

The Melbourne Metro is infinitely more important to Melbourne as a city in my opinion. Along with removal of level crossings, this will ease (or at least slowdown the growth) in congestion across the entire city, and double the capacity of the existing train network.
 
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