{"id":46259,"date":"2024-05-17T13:05:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T03:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=46259"},"modified":"2024-05-17T13:06:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T03:06:19","slug":"206000-a-year-to-hold-up-a-stop-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=46259","title":{"rendered":"$206,000 a year to hold up a stop sign?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Labor&#8217;s militant CFMEU union has taken control of most Big Build projects, amid fresh reports of rorts  and coercion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No wonder Jacinta Allan wants to press ahead with the dubious $35 billion rail tunnel to Box Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are starting to understand why projects of this type in Melbourne are 3 times the cost of Western Australia and 5 times that of European rail projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"745\" height=\"663\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-108.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-108.jpeg 745w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-108-300x267.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: https:\/\/twitter.com\/netz_melb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor&#8217;s militant CFMEU union has taken control of most Big Build projects, amid fresh reports of rorts &#038; coercion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":44446,"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":[273,999,163,8160],"tags":[472,993,7],"class_list":["post-46259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand","category-suburban-rail-loop","tag-australian","tag-melbourne","tag-transport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46259","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46262,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46259\/revisions\/46262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}