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.
It was first proposed in the 1960s, but Melburnians won’t be catching a train to the airport until at least 2033. So how has the project gone off the rails and where is it at now?
Victorian households will cop a massive hit to their power bills if the Allan government pushes ahead with a “rushed” move to wean the state off gas in a bid to meet its climate change targets.
Anthony Albanese has said $7bn will be poured into Melbourne’s Airport Rail link, saying the project had been delayed for too long, as he joined some of the state’s most influential figures at a Herald Sun Future Victoria event.
The long-awaited $10.2bn West Gate Tunnel is set to change Melbourne’s roads for good, and it’s due to open by the end of the year.
Airport bosses are looking for global inspiration to bring thousands more passengers and jobs to one of the state’s fastest-growing areas, eyeing a new 4km driverless shuttle that would link the precinct to existing rail networks.
Hundreds of hi-tech Automatic Incident Detection cameras are set to be installed allowing traffic controllers in Transurban’s new state-of-the-art facility to control incidents in real time.
The Allan government has walked back plans to squeeze six-storey developments into quiet suburban streets. But high rise towers are still coming to a suburb near you.
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