{"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

The 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

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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

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 Melton Level Crossing Removal<\/a> Project a poorly designed, unnecessary boondoggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By comparison the London Underground is a much larger system to manage but the system is not all underground.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Let’s also remember Jacinta Allan’s husband is a former CFMEU official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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":[],"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