Brisbane City Council’s initial proposal for a multibillion-dollar transport tunnel on Brisbane’s northside has been rejected. Find out why 👇
Brisbane City Council’s initial proposal for a multibillion-dollar transport tunnel on Brisbane’s northside has been rejected by the federal infrastructure assessment agency.
Under the federal funding agreement, the council was required to submit its plan to Infrastructure Australia.However, the assessment agency has rejected the tunnel proposal because a surface-level road – the original plan for the corridor, opposed by Labor governments – was never tested by the council or its partners.
But the tunnel would also have cost between $9.5 billion and $14.1 billion – well beyond the council’s budget and therefore needing the support of other levels of government.The research also led to an alternative proposal for a 14-kilometre underground train line to expand the rail network between Albion and Strathpine.
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