The Andrews government has declared the first section of the Suburban Rail Loop should be built, regardless of whether future governments decide to complete the rest of the mammoth project | Exclusive | Melbchief sumeyyailanbey
The Andrews government has declared the first section of the Suburban Rail Loop should be built, regardless of whether future governments decide to complete the rest of the mammoth project.
Guy’s case was backed by Parliamentary Budget Office figures showing the first two sections of the project could cost up to $125 billion, more than double the projected cost that Premier Daniel Andrews took to the 2018 election.“The priority is to fix the health system – everything is trumped by that,” he said.The probable cost of the first section of the loop is less contentious than other parts of the project.
“There are holes in the ground, people are digging,” he said. “We can’t keep throwing away billions of dollars of taxpayer money on projects because we change our government.” Documents prepared by consultancy KPMG predict that within the Monash precinct, the population will double and jobs will increase five-fold as a consequence of the rail line. The population of the Box Hill precinct is predicted to swell from 29,000 people to 77,500 people.
He said stopping the Suburban Rail Loop now would be like pulling up a Melbourne Cup field a mile into the race.Paul Hamer, Labor’s member for Box Hill, spoke toafter he’d spent the day door-knocking. He said that some of his constituents were concerned that if the loop did not go ahead, they wouldn’t have a job. While health services were important, so was transport, he said. “People understand that a government can and should improve both.
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