The mediator in the Melbourne Airport rail link wars has recommended against the underground station option unless there is a “comprehensive” business case showing it stacks up.
The mediator between the owners of Melbourne Airport and the Victorian government in a long-running dispute over a proposed railway station at Tullamarine has also been doing consulting work for the state-run Suburban Rail Loop Authority.
A solution for the Melbourne Airport Rail standoff could be delivered within weeks despite the Victorian government and airport owners not meeting with mediators in the same room to hash out their differences over the $13 billion project.
The Victorian government says Melbourne Airport is holding a proposed rail link from the city “hostage”, with the state and the transport hub owned by some of the country’s biggest infrastructure investors now in external mediation.
