[LINK] Clouds forming over Westconnex Papers

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Meanwhile, this was not a prank.

On March 4,  NSW Government was forced to release the papers by which they arrived at the executive
business case for the proposed $14billion Westconnex Motorway.

> Dr MEHREEN FARUQI [3.27 p.m.]: I seek leave to amend Private Members' Business item No. 1513 outside the Order of Precedence by inserting after paragraph (a):
> 
>                         (b) all correspondence, meeting diaries, meeting agendas, and meeting minutes regarding the development of the business case for the WestConnex project;
> 
>                         (c) any advice concerning the development of the business case for the WestConnex project;
> 
>                         (d) any document referring or relating to traffic forecasts, patronage estimates, routes, property acquisitions that were used to develop the business case for the WestConnex project; and ....
http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/Prod/Parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LC20140304021?open&refNavID=HA8_1

The funniest paper, I read in the Non Privileged collection, was that the promotional material had 
to convince a commuter on Penrith
Railway station that construction of the Motorway was a good thing.

The identified Key Benefits of the motorway are gobsmacking, particularly like the claim of
40minutes time saving. The rail trip from Parramatta to the Airport is currently less than 40 minutes!
http://www.westconnex.com.au/about/key_benefits.html

All 20 word clouds derived from the Non Privileged Document Index are now available at:
http://worditout.com/discover-word-clouds/search/Westcon

Marghanita


Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> Linkers might be interested in the Word Clouds of the Index to the recently released West Connex Papers.
> The index is extensive and proving a challenge to the generators so, I have randomly broken the
> 20000 or so entries into separate documents.
> 
> http://worditout.com/word-cloud/377944
> http://worditout.com/word-cloud/377948
> http://worditout.com/word-cloud/377957
> http://worditout.com/word-cloud/377959
> 
> The 21MB index to the unprivledged & priviledged documents can be downloaded at:
> http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/lc/lctabdoc.nsf/cccc870c6126b1b6ca2571ee000318a4/0d3a5afe584d3ae8ca257ca6002b233f/$FILE/Index%20-%20WestConnex%20Business%20Case.pdf
> 
> Marghanita


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