The project is 3 years late. The construction company should be banned from public projects. Contaminated soil was known at the start of project

No one will want to travel from Cheltenham to box hill in the middle of the day.

Didn’t the Gawler line already been electrified? Why do you keep using the same footage that isn’t related to the topic? If you talk a Canberra transport, use the Canberra footage, if you talk about Adelaide, use Adelaide footage. You don’t need to keep using Melbourne footage when you are done showing the transport footage.

It’s seem like a weird duplication of current option of current west gate and city link…. If roads needs to be built, it’s should be used to connected previous freeways to other freeways with no other freeway options to get between or even better public transit. For example even building the M3 to city link route should be prioritized and then build this later on, so it’s doesn’t feel like a duplicate thingy…

"Sign" billion dollars?

210km/h is the Australian rail speed record. It was only done during testing, not in regular service. The max service speed is 160km/h

2:56 This train is powered by electricity *video of the diesel tilt train*

Best project that's ever been floated in this state since marvellous Melbourne, anyone who's ever been to Paris or London or any functional big metropolis knows how separating train lines need to be linked like a spiders web rather than having to travel to the CBD to get anywhere else . When our CBD was the hub of people's employment this was relevant, this system worked, more often now people's employment is in the suburbs. These other large cities don't have a CBD, they have thriving communities that form around transport hubs. All these naysayers are worrying about themselves now, it's selfish , not worrying what their kids and grandkids will benefit from in their city when we are long gone. About time we had a cross generational project rather than governments just doing what they can in their own terms for their own short term gain. My only quarm, of course they start in the east so the haves can benefit first- and if it gets shut down early , the poor old west will miss out, again.

Get off the climate change bullshit. The world needs carbon. If there was no carbon, there'd be no life on earth. Cut the crap.

It's crazy. You might need to take up to 4 different connections to reach most destinations. Which people will never do unless they absolutely have to. The research has been firm on this for decades. Much easier and quicker to drive.

Add some interest & Noooooo More hidden taxes ahead, but it was worth it for nuke shelter

Except the cost of building it is now where near $216billion.

Melbourne metro tunnel $15 billion mega project Sydney metro $25.2 billion project Brisbane metro $1.7 billion project Adelaide Gawler project $715 million Canberra light rail stage 2A Stage 1 $675 million that was in 2019 Some 32 million lower as projected They don’t say how much stage 2 is going to be The government has allocated $16.5 Billion extra budget by 2025 Does Australia have a money tree farm somewhere or is going to be payed out of the $650 billion Is all this coming from the $650 billion spending spree that labor are ready to go on ? Mind you nothing about the cost of living or housing crisis that was promised by Albanese in 2022 What about the $275 to cut power bills but that’s another broken promise also But they can find the time to spend money on this & the most important things to help their own country in important issues & matters are swept under the rug & forgotten about How much are these projects going to blow out to this time or are you going to pay for it with the missing money from blowout projects or have you Albanese & your government already spread it out amongst yourselves & your mates

It would be good to compare what was the travel time before vs. today as i styl don't know what was so revolutionary in introducing these trains... Just a thought

Victoria is the most taxed state in Australia. How about a plebiscite before the incumbent governments make these decisions. Only the few and influential parts of Melbourne benefit. How does any of these construction projects benefit rural people? I certainly will not receive any of these project benefits, but I pay the tax.😢

Isn’t that prize for the construction and running for it over $50 years?

What is this AI shit.

When are they going to straighten the track to Cairns to enable the diesel trains to reduce the travel time to northern Queensland?

216 billion for 5 new stations? Victoria truly is a corrupt state that deserves what its voters want

this over the airport rail is actually unreal

Ridiculous. Will never pay for itself. Plus many more worthwhile projects have been canned because of it.

This is an absolute shit video - there is a shot of London at 1:16 - obviously the person who put this together either has no idea or doesn't give a toss about what's included in their ai voice over videos. Stopped there - this is just clickbait.

This is probably a huge white elephant

Will send the state broke and for the the money spent there are many other public transport projects that would advantage a lot more people.

It's not economically sustainable. It's heavily subsidised by the government. 💸

This has been around for over 20 years. Hardly revolutionary or game-changing. Also Rockhampton has zero coastal beauty. It's an inland beef 🍖 capital.

Interesting video but not much mention of the train itself which is narrow guage running on 1067mm track. The electric tilt train also has a diesel counterpart which runs the 1700km from Brisbane to Cairns.

Where is Perth Metronet

Gawler rail electrification was completed years ago... You literally showed electric trains running the length of the Gawler line IN THE VIDEO. We've had a whole new line added since then; Port Dock - and there are now three potential line extensions and another entirely new line on the cards.

The Brisbane Cross River Rail tunnel is being delayed until 2929 by the new conservative government purely out of spite as punishment for the people of Brisbane not voting for them.

So in battery hold mode, you can increase the battery % target up this will then engage the petrol engine when driving till the battery reaches the programmed % This is similar to the battery charge option that you mentioned

I love when an american is telling me what’s happening in my own country.

You forgot ANZAC station on the map.

I agree with other moments. The cities and infrastructure shown do not match the Australian cities.

Did you realise that Sydney is no longer the largest city in A. Melbourne now is. Also many of the images used for various cities are of the wrong city being featured!

Cross river rail was meant to be finishing but now won’t be done for another 5 years due to multiple stuff ups

The cities shown in this video, frequently dont match the city being discussed. Its almost as though the producers dont know the difference, and cant tell apart, the 5 cities being discussed.

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Please include actual content with your work. This is entirely fluff.

If we can spend 400 billion dollars on the nuclear submarine program (currently it ranges between 270-370, but this will surely increase), then a hsr worth 60-80 billion dollars, which benefits the population, the economy, and the environment, is not impossible in my opinion. ..

It's just a really badly thought-out project. The Victorian Government should sue the people responsible.

The thing with metronet is that there is a lot of history of stupidity by previous governments that has caused this. Firstly Armadale road originally was a train line down to Fremantle via spearwood and bibra Lake, but some government in 1970 ( I think) decided to pull it up Although it was mostly a freight line, they used to put passenger carriages on the end this could have become a full passenger route connecting the Armadale to the Mandurah at Cockburn and carrying onto Fremantle Secondly, the kenwick to Cockburn line was 90% completed before 2001 when the Barnett government decided to scrap the project and create the current perth to Mandurah line we have now If they had completed the original plans, first we wouldn't have to make so big changes to Armadale/ Thornlie line now Thirdly is this modernisation of the complete metropolitan rail system to early and disposing of all our diesel rail cars without considering using them past were the electrification section finish say a diesel service from armadale to Byford or a diesel service from Fremantle to south Beach ( a lot of station from when the America's cup was held in Perth only recently got demolished recently before that they stood unused) What I'm getting at is a lot of things could have been kept but governments seem to have this attitude of i don't use to or i don't like it so the rest of us suffer and now we are paying for ot

Will it work though?

I didn’t help that we had a moron for a prime minister for 11 years.

The editing is jarring and annoying. You can do better with the editing so that we can avoid potentially having epileptic seizures.

You can get China to help you build, or you can choose to consider the usual suspects of Japan, France, Germany, Sth Korea or Spain to help you, ahd pay 2 or 3 times as much and maybe a few years longer. Don't forget: China already has 47,000 km of (up to 350 km/hr) highspeed rail (more than all the rest of the world combined) or you can be guided by your geopolitics.

Haha. Melbourne still can’t manage to connect their city to the airport 😅

i still understand asfter all that fluff, how this tunnel takes the pressure of the westgate bridge. all it does is get trucks going to the port off the suburbs. but who ever needs to go east is still going to bridge, and into our high flowing, superfast burnley tunnel. even if they are going east, because this 10 BILLION DOLLAR tunnel is connected to the Tullamarine freeway, ,and doest go east . The Tullamarine freeway is already connected to the wastage, and hardly anyone uses that connection. The end of the new tunnel just terminates at outer cbd. which will be great spot for window cleaners, they will have more time, maybe to even wash the cars, No one going from the west to the CBD, Stkilda and and thru to south, and south east can use tis tunnel The 10 lane Easter freeway, few KM away from this Termination, just like magic still not being connected to anything. same distance as this tunnel ;) Eastern freeway ends, your suddenly stuck in traffic in the inner suburbs, because? who the fark knows, and if you want to get to the western or Tullamarine freeway, the traffic that came out of a 10 lane freeway that needs to go NW ends up in a 1 lane rd thru the Zoo. now there is plenty of space to make the road wider, but they cant so that, because that restriction is what controls the traffic goig towards eastern freeway from being jammed more than what it is.

Well I wouldn’t mind an alternative to jets , but we need to have priorities, our hospitals are under resourced, overworked, as are our ambulance services , police , our defence forces are under resourced , and in developed countries around the world, Australian citizens have the third highest debt on the planet ! Yet we already have government blowing untold billions on second rate part time renewables ! You have to get your house in order , and the country is in debt , the cost of living sucks , who is going to pay hundreds of billions of dollars for fast rail ? We can’t even get good track consistently through the suburbs , how can we afford to do that for thousands of k’s along the coast ? And especially with all the other problems mentioned we already have .

Maybe we can tax the fuck out of domestic airlines for this route and even toll the whole brissy to Mel freeway routes to pay for the high speed rail