Re: [QLD] Brisbane Light Rail?

["James C." <james_ccj@my-deja.com>]

Fedreral government provide 15m$ assistence to make this project
happening,

who entered the bid for Brisbane LRT??


In article <39211B67.1B98B86@powerup.com.au>,
  weaver@kill.spam.powerup.com.au wrote:
> Does anyone know what has happened to the Brisbane Light Rail
project?
> The winning tender was supposed to be announced by April, with
> construction underway by May, but *absolutely nothing* has happened.
>
> On March 10 I was told by a QLD Transport representative that the BLR
> website would be relaunched, with a new design and details of the
> winning bid WITHIN TWO WEEKS - this has not happened.
>
> More recently, there has been a lot of negative publicity in the
Courier
> Mail, with a report that the QLD branch of the Property Council of
> Australia has written to the Federal Treasurer requesting that the
> federal funding for BLR be diverted to improved bus transport an the
> Light Rail scrapped - the same article also claimed that the PCoA was
> liasing with the RACQ to lobby the State & Federal Governments for
> scrapping of all Light Rail plans for Brisbane.
>
> Today there was another article in the CM, mainly talking about
changes
> to the Lang Park stadium plan, which also talked about "... highlights
> continuing confusion about whether the State Government and Brisbane
> City Council will produce the often-mooted light rail system for
> Brisbane's inner suburbs."
>
> In resonse to all this, I emailed the BLR team asking for a progress
> update, and so far have received no response ...
>
> Do any aus.railers know whether BLR is still a goer, or is it about to
> go the way of BrizTram and the Kippa Ring line in favour or more
b***dy
> buses.
>
> cheers,
> Colin
>

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Cheers

James


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