This thread is for the discussion of the Melbourne Suburban Rail Loop
SRL East is the first stage of the project being delivered from Cheltenham to Box Hill, with 26 kilometres of twin tunnels connecting six new underground stations.
Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) North is from Box Hill to Melbourne Airport. Seven new stations are proposed for SRL North at Doncaster, Heidelberg, Bundoora, Reservoir, Fawkner, Broadmeadows, and Melbourne Airport, connecting SRL North to Melbourne Airport. Station locations are preliminary.
SRL Airport extends from Melbourne Airport to Sunshine, with a new station in Keilor East also be built as part of the project.
SRL West will connect Sunshine station to Werribee station.
A damning report has revealed the cost of Victoria’s major projects has blown out by another $11 billion in the past year. It comes as the government is forced to answer why newly installed myki readers on the Metro Tunnel will need replacing within months of the new stations opening.
Major Projects Performance Reporting 2024
Tabled: 19 February 2025
Do public entities publish information that can be used to assess their major projects’ performance against expected cost, time, scope and benefits?
What we found
We made 4 key findings:
1. Public reporting about major projects is not meaningful, reliable or comprehensive.
2. Internal analysis of project performance is often high quality and meaningful, but it is not publicly reported.
3. Entities are not systematically assessing significant changes’ impact on a project’s original cost, time, scope or benefits.
4. Entities’ project benefits measurement systems are not mature, with unclear roles and responsibilities.
The analysis leading to these key findings is discussed in this section.
Key themes from the major project case studies are described in more detail in Section 3. Appendix D lists the case studies we selected to examine in more detail.
We explore the data from our surveys in more detail in Section 4.
This project may cost the red team its power at the next election due to its enormous cost and the feeling from areas that are not served by it that they’re being short-changed in comparison. This is an important consideration because it feels like there’s zero chance the project continues under the blue team, and the money will be reallocated to road projects.
I do wonder if it’s even realistically possible to can the SRL at this point - contracts have been signed and construction has been started, I imagine even cancelling it would be an expensive endeavour
Allan govt selects preferred bidder for major SRL works
TransitLinX, which includes Chinese construction giant John Holland, RATP Dev, Alstom, KBR and WSP , was selected to negotiate the mega contract, which is expected to be signed later this year.
