{"id":89113,"date":"2024-07-18T11:13:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T01:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=89113"},"modified":"2024-07-18T11:42:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T01:42:55","slug":"the-suburban-rail-loop-ranked-above-north-east-link-and-on-par-with-metro-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=89113","title":{"rendered":"The Suburban Rail Loop ranked above North East Link and on par with Metro Tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

According to this recent poll outlined in The Age Newspaper, a solid majority of Victorians want the Suburban Rail Loop that is almost 3 or of 5 people surveyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Age Newspaper and Committee for Melbourne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What is more interesting but not surprising is the project with the lowest support being the North East Link. This project had a margin business case (after pumping it up) prior to the costs doubling meaning the business case now would be at a stage where the project should never have been undertaken. By the time this awful project is nearing completion expect the costs to exceed $30b with no real return in sight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Money wasted on North East Link by a government controlled by unions for the benefit of their members and not the general public or all Victorians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead this money should have been invested in the Airport Rail Line, the Western Rail Plan and Intermodal terminals or inland ports ensuring trucks can drop off containers in regional centres and not drive into the Port of Melbourne clogging the road network and damaging the roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Suburban Rail Loop is ranked evenly with the Metro Tunnel with the Melbourne Airport Rail Link being the most requested or supported project of the list of infrastructure projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Government with the exception of the Northeast Link no one wanted appears to be focused on the right projects remembering other key rail projects such as the Geelong Fast Rail Upgrade and Western Rail Plan have been left behind leaving the western suburbs in desperate need for rail upgrades standing and platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Money wasted on North East Link by a government controlled by unions for the benefit of their members and not the general public or all Victorians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":81580,"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":[35,47,8160,1],"tags":[993,10958,8169,7590,8,11623],"class_list":["post-89113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-rail-news","category-suburban-rail-loop","category-uncategorized","tag-melbourne","tag-melbourne-airport-rail-link","tag-metro-tunnel","tag-north-east-link","tag-victoria","tag-west-gate-tunnel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89113","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=89113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89136,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89113\/revisions\/89136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}