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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Benita Kolovos

Another election year leads to another Victorian debate about the East West Link proposal

Matthew Guy, Tony Abbott and Michael Sukkar stand in front of a billboard that says
Victorian opposition leader Matthew Guy (left) then prime minister Tony Abbott and Liberal MP Michael Sukkar (right) criticised the scrapping of the East West Link project in 2014. Photograph: Tracey Nearmy/AAP

Almost seven years after Victoria’s Labor government scrapped a billion-dollar contract to construct the East West Link, the project – once dubbed a “zombie” by the state’s treasurer – refuses to die.

The federal Coalition has previously pushed the case for the project. But this time, it was the state opposition reviving it by announcing it would build the underground tunnel to connect Melbourne’s Eastern Freeway to CityLink if was elected at the November election.

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