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Green light for community input into final NEL designs
Eastern Metro MP Rod Barton has welcomed the Minister for Planning’s green light for tendering consortiums to incorporate community driven designs into the final North East Link plans.
Green light for community input into final NEL designs
Eastern Metro MP Rod Barton has welcomed the Minister for Planning’s green light for tendering consortiums to incorporate community driven designs into the final North East Link plans.
TRANSCRIPT – Legislative Assembly – Touting Amendments to Transport Legislation Amendment Bill 2019
Read the transcript of the passing of the Transport Legislation Amendment Bill and its touting amendments in the legislative assembly.
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Focus on transport
Transport is essential to our economy, our quality of life and our freedoms of choice. Rod will bring attention to the state of our roads, our decaying regional networks and the growing need to expand our public transport infrastructure and make it more accessible and desirable.
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Metro Tunnel machines grind to halt in dispute over billions in cost blowouts www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/metro-tunnel-machines-grind-to-halt-in-dispute-over-3b-cost-b...
Metro Tunnel machines grind to halt in dispute over billions in cost blowouts
theage.com.au
The tunnel-boring machines excavating the Metro Tunnel have been halted in their tracks, as the consortium and the government argue over the project's multi-billion dollar blowout.
The state government pays out broken contracts and cost blowouts but not hard working Victorians.
Why am I not surprised? 😱
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The costs were expected to be worn by the consortium, with Treasurer Tim Pallas insisting in June that taxpayers would not cover any of the extra costs. I think I've heard this before from the Labor Government.
"Grind" - LOL
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“If all of the lines proposed in the 1969 plan, along with its level-crossing removals, had been completed as planned by 1985, Melbourne would be quite different today, and for much less than the cost of all of the roads built or planned in the foreseeable future.”
50 years on from the Melbourne Transportation Plan, what can we learn from its legacy? theconversation.com/50-years-on-from-the-melbourne-transportation-plan-what-can-we-learn-from-its...
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50 years on from the Melbourne Transportation Plan, what can we learn from its legacy?
theconversation.com
While called a transportation plan, it was heavily skewed towards roads. We need the type of city-shaping thinking that underpinned the plan, but today's plans must match 21st-...
It's quite simple, we have always built for "today". As a result we are always playing catch up.