WestConnex Business Case Just One Big Con

Posted on November 21, 2015December 4, 2015 by C S

No WestConnex Public Transport: Media Release 20 November 2015

The “Strategic” Business Case for the 35-kilometre series of WestConnex Tollways has finally been released. It has no attributed author. The total cost is now predicted to be $16.8 billion. When it was announced in October 2012, the original cost of WestConnex was $10 billion. How high will these costs go? Continue reading “WestConnex Business Case Just One Big Con” »

WestConnex: the road to ruin is paved with more roads

Posted on January 29, 2015December 1, 2015 by C S

SMH: WestConnex: the road to ruin is paved with more roads. Elizabeth Farrelly (January 29, 2015)

Wherever you look it seems the boofheads are back in charge. And I don’t just mean Abbott’s bizarre elevation of militarists and monarchs. (Defenders of Sir Prince are conspicuously absent, yet I should point out in his defence that his single spoken syllable in my presence thoroughly befits an Aussie knight, being an imperative, “beer!”) Continue reading “WestConnex: the road to ruin is paved with more roads” »