ANALYSIS: Is Victoria really getting $2b for fast rail?
Mr Andrews, who has built a reputation on the back of funding and building roads and rail, jumped on this detail in the wake of the budget.
"As if Victorians are foolishly going to buy that, no, six years, six years of cuts and chaos, instead of action and delivery." Grattan Institute transport expert Marion Terrill said Mr Andrews was right in his analysis that the money promised was a long way off. "As what to promises that are going to happen eight years out, 10 years out, take them with a very big dose of salt," she told the ABC.
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