The nation’s peak infrastructure body has savaged the Suburban Rail Loop, saying its benefits have been “overstated” and the cost of building the first stage is all but sure to surge past a budgeted $34.5bn.
The trouble-plagued West Gate Tunnel is running out of cash and an extra $1bn is now likely to be required to get the job finished on time.
A famous Melbourne subway built in the lead-up to the city‘s 1956 Olympic Games is set to reopen for business after being shuttered for three years for Metro Tunnel construction. Take a peek inside.
Construction is set to begin next week on Melbourne’s new contemporary art and design gallery The Fox as part of a $1.7bn Arts Precinct transformation.
A company that was part of the troubled $1.7 billion myki upgrade has been paid millions of dollars to walk away from the project in the latest bungle exposed by the Sunday Herald Sun.
Kingdom Developments Group director Andrew Bodnar, who described himself as a “God-made millionaire” before the business went bust, has been banned by the financial services regulator.
Jess Bala is the big boss in an industry crammed with blokes. She sits down with Matt Johnston to talk family, footy and being a leader in male-dominated fields.
The Melbourne Metro Tunnel project, already $4bn over budget, is the subject of another probe into alleged “ghost shifts”. We’ve been here before and the lack of action is costing Victoria’s long-suffering taxpayers dearly.
The closure of Victoria’s coal-fired Yallourn power station in 2028 could lead to power prices doubling, and the state left vulnerable “to fluctuations due to variations in weather”.
Speed limits on local streets would be cut to 30km/h under a new strategy being pushed by the state’s key infrastructure advisory body.
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