{"id":133774,"date":"2024-09-27T00:28:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T14:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=133774"},"modified":"2024-09-27T00:28:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T14:28:22","slug":"metro-tunnel-faces-another-massive-cost-blowout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=133774","title":{"rendered":"Metro Tunnel faces ANOTHER massive cost blowout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jacqui Felgate has slammed the \u201cdisrespectful\u201d state government as the Metro Tunnel faces another massive cost blowout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister for Transport Infrastructure, Danny Pearson, announced a cost blowout of $837 million today, with the project now expected to cost $15 billion, $4 billion more than the original cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHow can the government get it so wrong all the time?\u201d Felgate said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"600\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 480 \/ 600;\" width=\"480\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/8mpSSs9jkrZqY6pV-1.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJust another classic taking out the trash move and how disrespectful to Victorian taxpayers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Channel Seven reporter Sharnelle Vella then shed light on Danny Pearson\u2019s press conference, stating fellow reporters were treated to a \u201cvery long spiel\u201d about how great the Metro Tunnel is going to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Press PLAY to hear more + including what really bothered her<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-omny-studio wp-block-embed-omny-studio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Reporter sheds light on Metro Tunnel cost blowout (and Danny Pearson&#039;s press conference)\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-drive\/reporter-sheds-light-on-metro-tunnel-cost-blowout\/embed#?secret=4TlscJ5qTo\" data-secret=\"4TlscJ5qTo\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image (Pearson): Asanka Ratnayake\/Getty&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Transport Infrastructure, Danny Pearson, announced a cost blowout of $837 million today, with the project now expected to cost $15 billion, $4 billion more than the original cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":133777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1168,47],"tags":[8054,993,8],"class_list":["post-133774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro-tunnel","category-rail-news","tag-3aw","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133778,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133774\/revisions\/133778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}