Contractors on Melbourne’s airport rail link have been paid $67 million to delay to the project.
Victoria has spent at least $67 million to delay Melbourne’s long-awaited rail link to Tullamarine, paying contractors for standing down until the state resolves its stalemate with the airport.
The second variation, valued at $67 million and agreed to in November – the month that King ruled the project should continue – was to “demobilise works” during negotiations with the airport. An artist’s impression of a new bridge, to be 550 metres long, 50 metres high and built alongside the existing heritage- listed rail bridge over the Maribyrnong River, to be built as part of the Melbourne Airport Rail project.
A spokesman for Melbourne Airport said its work ground to a halt on April 30 last year on advice from the state government. The state opposition’s shadow treasurer Brad Rowswell said the figures proved “Labor can’t manage money and Victorians are paying the price”.
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