Entire project is a complete waste of taxpayers money (and yes we have been spending money to try and get this up) and only benefits Transurban.  Is terrible for the environment and is a project with little or no payback and may even be worse than East West Link which was bad.

This project ignores what is really required which is an efficient rail network connection the port like Sydney and Adelaide have.

I believe the word "Rent-seeker" best describes Transurban.  "Gigantic Traffic Sewer" best describes the project outcome.

Well it looks like the LNP are going to try to kill Western Distributor:

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/coalition-flags-plan-to-kill-west-gate-tunnel-project-in-parliament-20171208-h01l4o.html

Well it looks like the LNP are going to try to kill Western Distributor:

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/coalition-flags-plan-to-kill-west-gate-tunnel-project-in-parliament-20171208-h01l4o.html

Now believe this project is dead and with the upper house getting to the point of killing it I would like to see the documents made public so we can really see who is up who and why.

This project will just clog the city. Criminal.

It could be argued Daniel Andrews went to the Victorian polls on fixing public transport.  Has this occurred?

If you remove the level cross works which studies have recently shown has delivered a minimal impact to road users in the vicinity of 1 minute saving in time. The investment on a $ only basis is marginal at best.  You would need to add safety and other aspects.  The massive programme which is over budget also promised to deliver more trains as gates would not be down.  Has this occurred?

Of the large number of outages and service problems which occur on a daily basis across the metro network have any of these been addressed in the past 3 years?

Have the V/line issues promised to be fixed still around?

is freight still facing issues on the Victoria Network?

Are we delivering more trains more often on the V/Line network?

Instead of addressing all the issues on a day to day basis, Daniel Andrews instead has decided to embark on a series of massive toll road projects which will not deliver value for money and which are a solution looking for a problem.

So a city of 4.5 million people, and growing at about 100,000 a year has a port smack bang in the middle of it. So all the freight going in or out has to find its way through ever increasing built up areas to get to where its required.So in 5 years time when this multi billion dollar project is completed and the footprint of the city has increased by 10%, another multi billion dollar project will be required, and on and on it goes.

Wouldn't it be cheaper in the long term to expand another port or build a new port somewhere else, a long way from the metropolitan area?
Not all freight emanates  or terminates in Melbourne.

Just a thought.

So a city of 4.5 million people, and growing at about 100,000 a year has a port smack bang in the middle of it. So all the freight going in or out has to find its way through ever increasing built up areas to get to where its required.So in 5 years time when this multi billion dollar project is completed and the footprint of the city has increased by 10%, another multi billion dollar project will be required, and on and on it goes.

Wouldn't it be cheaper in the long term to expand another port or build a new port somewhere else, a long way from the metropolitan area?
Not all freight emanates  or terminates in Melbourne.

Just a thought.

There was a study on trip trains from the port/s to Somerton, Truganinna and Dandenong somewhere all intended to reduce road traffic. It won't happen of course as we are incapable of servicing the PoM (Port of Melbourne) effectively by rail now. Webb Dock, of course, is another sad story.

I believe the word "Rent-seeker" best describes Transurban.  "Gigantic Traffic Sewer" best describes the project outcome.