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May 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Victoria’s $5 billion regional train connection is a step closer to fruition, with a $570 million contract announced for works between central Melbourne and the western suburbs.
The Regional Rail Link’s fifth stage will include 4.5 kilometres of new tracks to separate metro and regional trains at the city’s busiest junction, three bridge modifications and a one-kilometre rail overpass over the Maribyrnong River.
Construction will begin in mid-2012, and is likely to cause major disruptions, including monthly shutdowns of the Metro network, Transport Minister Terry Mulder said on Saturday.
Announcing the contract alongside Premier Ted Baillieu and Federal Attorney-General Nicola Roxon, Mr Mulder said the state was determined to finish the project despite a lack of additional funding for the link in this year’s Federal Budget.
“It’s up to us now as a state to contain the cost going forward, because I understand there’s to be nothing more on top of the $3.2 billion (previously announced federal funds),” he told reporters in Footscray.
Mr Baillieu said he remained disappointed that the state received no funding for projects such as the Metro Rail Project, the East West Link, the Port of Hastings or Avalon Airport’s expansion in the Federal Budget.
“We had modest asks in and we got nothing,” he said.
Ms Roxon defended the budget, saying federal funding on the state’s infrastructure had more than doubled per Victorian.
“It won’t be the first time and it won’t be the last time that a state government wants more money from the Commonwealth,” she said.
The Regional Rail Link, first announced by then-premier John Brumby in 2008, is set to streamline Geelong, Bendigo and Ballarat train services to Melbourne and remove bottlenecks throughout the rail system.
Initially due for completion by 2014 at a cost of $4.3 billion, it’s now expected to be finished by early 2016, with an overall bill of $5 billion.
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