Age readers respond to the funding issues involved with the Suburban Rail Loop.
. Please include your home address and telephone number. No attachments, please include your letter in the body of the email. The Age refers to the Suburban Rail Loop as “gossamer” – a filmy, insubstantial substance. Rather, I would see it as a lead necklace of debt for all Victorians for many years to come. The direct cost for the project was originally estimated at $200 billion, now ballooning to unknown numbers. Unseen is the lack of a secured funding source for the direct project costs.
But it will require a change in our taxation and spending priorities. Instead of spending $368 billion on nuclear submarines, for example, and ever-increasing funds on the military, we could direct our taxes to education, health and housing and so advance the wellbeing and future of our communities.
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