{"id":300250,"date":"2025-10-12T18:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T08:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=300250"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:55:24","slug":"tale-of-transport-dreams-victoria-3-times-more-expensive-per-km-than-nsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=300250","title":{"rendered":"Tale of transport dreams: Victoria 3 times more expensive per km than NSW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Australian Newspaper<\/a> has just completed a comparison of Metro Systems between Melbourne and Sydney. One stark statistic clearly not defendable is the extraordinary price per kilometre built between the two capital cities.  How could it possibly be that Victoria is 3 times more expensive than Western Australia or NSW?  <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"808\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-5-808x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-300251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-5-808x1024.png 808w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-5-237x300.png 237w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-5-768x973.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-5-1212x1536.png 1212w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-5.png 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 808px) 100vw, 808px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The cost of works in Victoria is 3 times that of NSW where the CFMEU does not have a strangle hold on construction projects.  There are two ways to consider this, the first being the price tag for the metro builds should be a 3rd of what it is in Victoria or alternatively we should be getting 3 times the network length we are for the same price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same could be said about the boondoggle being the level crossing removal programme in Victoria.  A great example of this shockingly managed project is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=135750\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Melton station design released with expensive skyrail at the centre stupid approach\">Melton Level Crossing Removal<\/a> Project a poorly designed, unnecessary boondoggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By comparison the London Underground is a much larger system to manage but the system is not all underground.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-7-675x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-300284\" style=\"width:433px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-7-675x1024.png 675w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-7-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-7-768x1164.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-7-1013x1536.png 1013w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-7.png 1201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s also remember Jacinta Allan&#8217;s husband is a former CFMEU official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of works in Victoria is 3 times that of NSW where the CFMEU does not have a strangle on construction projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":271587,"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":[1168,47,1033],"tags":[993,5026,2139,8],"class_list":["post-300250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro-tunnel","category-rail-news","category-sydney-metro","tag-melbourne","tag-nsw","tag-sydney","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300250","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=300250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300286,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300250\/revisions\/300286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/271587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}