North-Eastern Metropolitan Region
Aiv PUGLIELLI (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:46): (594) My question today is to the Minister for Transport Infrastructure. The North East Link toll road project now has the dubious title of being Victoria’s most expensive road project. This toll road has truly become a behemoth in my community, a road that is destroying the precious environment. It threatens to add air and noise pollution, and it is dividing communities with a massive tunnel entrance. We have heard that the cost to build this toll road will be an eye-watering $20 billion. Minister, I would like to know: have you totalled up the cost of the damage this project will bring to the community with the environmental destruction and added pollution? As I have suggested, $20 billion is only the beginning of the cost of this disastrous toll road project.