East West Tunnel

[blueday]

Yes, a bandaid over a festering sore.

Buses would really only work if there was a dedicated carriageway and I imagine that would be a cheaper option than rail or light rail.

Buses don't work, name one city in which they solved this or a similar problem. Trains are required to be efficient and regular to be effective like the MRTs in Asia, yet they do not cover the distances we are talking about east to west of Melbourne and we simply do not have the CBD infrastructure to support a significant increase in PT passengers from a high functioning east/west rail line.

Easy to call PT the solution to the problem, hard to explain how it would actually help.

As for the argument that the money spent was not that much, bull*@_. We paid a massive (we don't know how big) break contract fee, for nothing.