[LINK] Clouds forming over Westconnex Papers

[Jan Whitaker]

At 10:19 AM 2/04/2014, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>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

This sounds as screwy as our East/West Link project in Melbourne, but 
we can't get the business case because it's deemed commercial in 
confidence last I heard. So now the govt is backtracking and saying 
they are going to also do this range of rail improvements as well, 
because the marginal seats are guess where: along the crappy overcrowded lines!

Jan



Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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