If this is the actual chronological order of events, it is certainly not what was communicated to the public.rhino wrote:In the meantime, the Feds threw money at a freight transport study and decided they would help fund the Superway.
Earlier this year the Labor federal government announced that they would help fund the Torrens section of South Road, making it suddenly affordable and therefore achievable.
Of course with the current Liberal federal government, the situation is changing again
yes the torrens section was taken off the table due to lack of money from the state, but this still does not explain why to suddenly do the Darlington study.
the superway was funded by the Federal government in response to the GFC, but it was a project THE STATE put forward, from memory to get off the ground quickly and be a large display of "something" being done for Mike and Kev. No one in the transport industry asked for this section to commence prior to other sections, nor could anyone really figure out why other than it was the easiest section to do quickly (if you call 4 years quick). And where was all the lobying for the Torrens section then?
The state and federal governments only announced the Torrens resurection AFTER the Liberal announcement on Darlington.(did the libs even know of the existence of plans for the "secret freeway next to South Road?) In fact only this year we were all posting on here wondering why at completion of the superway, that no other section was to commence, and what a waste of workforce it was to close it all down.
As much as i like Jay and most of the current state team, the state government has absolutely NIL credibilty on this whole suject, and as much as I would like the feds to cahnge thier minds on darlington, the blame should lay squarely with the state government.