Taxpayers say the state government is wasting their money by starting construction on the Great Western Highway upgrade without a guarantee it will be completed.
Help keep family & friends informed by sharing this articleThe NSW government is being accused of wasting taxpayers' money by starting construction on a multi-billion dollar road upgrade that it cannot guarantee will be completed.
Renzo Benedet from the Hartley District Progress Association said beginning work was premature, considering so little of the potentially $8 billion project had been funded.Independent government advisory body Infrastructure Australia last year found the east and west sections would have a negative economic cost to society of $579.5 million.
"We've got an election coming up in March and I think it becomes a political exercise not an economic or not a rational one," Mr Benedet said.
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