Revealed: Barr’s costings for tram’s 2A extension
The total cost for 1.7 kilometres of light rail stage 2A will cost more than $1.46 billion, based on answers from the Chief Minister to the Assembly's Budget Review Committee.
The total cost for 1.7 kilometres of light rail stage 2A will cost more than $1.46 billion, based on answers from the Chief Minister to the Assembly's Budget Review Committee.
"The obsession with light rail has more than likely been at the expense of the education and health systems and the adequate provision of social housing," writes former planner MIKE QUIRK.
"Who, apart from fragile government egos, benefits from continuing to pour our rates into the bottomless tram pit? Of course, the answer is the developers," says letter writer IAN PEARSON, of Barton.
"Light rail has been from the outset and remains a financial disgrace!" thunders letter writer MAX FLINT, co-ordinator of Smart Canberra Transport