{"id":241524,"date":"2025-06-25T15:20:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T05:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=241524"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:15:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:15:41","slug":"fresh-west-gate-tunnel-cost-blow-out-to-double-initial-6-3bn-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=241524","title":{"rendered":"Fresh West Gate Tunnel cost blow out to double initial $6.3bn price"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New cost blowouts on the West Gate Tunnel <\/a>are set to top $1.5bn, taking the problem-plagued toll road\u2019s final price to almost twice its original $6.3bn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project was completed flawed from the beginning\/conception and only designed to ensure maximising profits for Transurban, Victorian’s will not benefit from this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project seeks to drive 50,000 additional cars into the centre of Melbourne when the Melbourne City Council and other fringe councils are narrowing roads and pushing cars out of the city. It is simply not required and as per the findings should never have been built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas was found to be holding shares in Transurban at the time of the project awarding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There should be a substantial court case against the company who quoted the price to the taxpayer and also to the external law firm who represented the taxpayer through the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There should be a substantial court case against the company who quoted the price to the taxpayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":241525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"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":[273,999,35],"tags":[993,14757,8,11623],"class_list":["post-241524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-melbourne","tag-transurban","tag-victoria","tag-west-gate-tunnel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t