{"id":317873,"date":"2025-11-17T09:56:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T23:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=317873"},"modified":"2025-11-17T09:56:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T23:56:05","slug":"pm-splashes-cash-on-surburban-rail-loop-ensuring-project-will-proceed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=317873","title":{"rendered":"PM splashes cash on Surburban Rail Loop ensuring project will proceed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A contentious $34.5 million rail line has been promised more federal funding as another gets the green light to open early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese joined Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan on a joy ride through Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel on Sunday after the project’s opening date was shifted forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The $15 billion rail line and its five new underground stations were scheduled to open in early December but the date has been changed to November 30 following safety approval.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The SRL plans to eventually link Werribee in the west with Cheltenham in the east.\u00a0(Supplied: Infrastructure Victoria)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The prime minister came bearing a celebratory gift, vowing to dig into federal coffer’s for the Suburban Rail Loop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proposed 90km orbital rail loop is intended to run from Cheltenham in Melbourne’s southeast to Werribee in the outer west via the airport at Tullamarine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far the Victorian government has committed $11.8 billion to the $34.5 billion eastern section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wants the commonwealth to cough up a third of the cost but the Albanese government has released just $2.2 billion, leaving a massive funding gap.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Suburban Rail Loop is getting an extra $2.2 billion from the Albanese government. (Joel Carrett\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The extra cash injection was ticked off after working through “issues” with Infrastructure Australia, Mr Albanese said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There will be additional funding in the budget because Victoria needs that certainty going forward,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prime minister would not say how much money was on the way or if a funding split had been agreed, declaring Victorians would have to “wait and see” when the federal budget was handed down in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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