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isnt the East west tunnel part of the Westlink? from the easten freeway through to the western ring road?The east-west tunnel is a morally bankrupt project that was used as a means to win votes from constituents in marginal seats. Infrastructure Australia even has Melbourne Metro and WestLink as higher priorities.
I understand Perth needs a new stadium, and yes it will generate millions. Will the public that paid for the stadium ever see a ROI though? You realise not everyone attends sporting events.
Federation Square actually makes money for the state government with a number of the tenants there being government owned. So when public funds are used to build a sports stadium for a team, they sell tickets and make money from it. Where is the benefit to the public that will never visit that stadium?
You keep pointing out how stadiums put us on the world stage and events are held there. I'm not disputing that, I'm disputing the fact that we are using public funds to build these stadiums with no ROI to the public purse. Fund them through private investment.
alot of the funding for the east west, has been from private inverters. so thats why its being built first
when the current citylink tunnels where first built there was alot of people posting saying it wasn't needed as well. the railways are state owned, no private funding could be used.
the metro sysetm is needed,and will be built will be the next project after the East west link & that new train line being buit from deer park to werribee
the majorty of people that whinge about out rail system are the left winged idiotse that have been to the larger more populated cities, eg London, New yorks, tokyos,& get all excited because they have trains running every 3 minutes 24 hrs a day. it will not work here due to Melbourne having only a very small population to those cities, Melbourne spans over a longer land mass than most other cities in the world.
the state government would make peanuts from federation square to what it spent on it to build it! and not many people even know what is there
as i originally said, a tax funds along with private investments would be the the best scenario. for s company to spend so much money on a project the government usually throws some incentives in it