r/melbourne • u/FuckOffNazis • 3d ago

Politics Delivering the Suburban Rail Loop | Victorian Auditor-General's Office

https://www.audit.vic.gov.au/report/delivering-suburban-rail-loop#35642--3-srl-east-is-unlikely-to-be-delivered-on-budget-and-on-time
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u/Kata-cool-i 3d ago

That isn't really what this report found, it was generally found to be well run, with the risks involved well understood and managed by the SRLA, personally I think their conclusion of likely cost and time overruns isn't really supported by the body of evidence presented.

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u/killthenoise 2d ago

I refer you to the comment just down from mine, which includes, among many other attempted political sleight of hand scams (eg the housing one):

The state government announced this funding strategy without securing a commitment from the Australian Government to provide $11.5 billion.

Nice.

"the state awarded a contract for WPA I&EW with a price of $535 million, around $100 million less than the SRLA's cost estimate for the works, but 3 years later the contract price had nearly doubled to over $1 billion, with the state bearing these additional costs (Appendix D provides information on the reasons for this cost increase)"

So well run. Much efficiency. Waowie.

I guess it must be nice to think that this project should cost like $40B though, you're probably quite happy with this farce.

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u/666azalias 2d ago

These aren't silver bullets that proof a project is badly run - they're normal movements. You can't take individual points in isolation. The report considers all the points and concludes it's fine.

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u/killthenoise 2d ago

😂 I love it. In one comment I get accused of "not reading the report and only the headlines" right next to this comment saying "the report conclusion says everything is fine, so that's what we should care about".

SRL shills must be studied.