The signing of the final deal for twin tunnels between Glen Waverley and Box Hill effectively commits Victoria to the project, after the Coalition vowed to honour existing contracts.
Victoria has signed a second tunnelling contract for the Suburban Rail Loop, locking the state into completing stage 1 of Australia’s biggest and most expensive infrastructure project.
While the state government insists it remains committed to completing the entire 90-kilometre Suburban Rail Loop from Cheltenham to Werribee, the opposition on Sunday again called for the project to be paused, and reserved the right not to complete the entire orbital rail line if its impact on other funding priorities was deemed to be too significant.
Pesutto described the latest contract as the “height of financial recklessness”, and questioned how the state government would finance the rail loop given the Albanese government had committed just $2 billion to stage 1 of the project, and a third – or up to $12 billion – was expected to come from “value capture” from new taxes that had yet to be unveiled.“No Victorian would go and buy a house without securing the funding ... and yet this is what Premier Allan is doing.
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