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Nearly every day there are headlines like “State faces [another] big bill”, but it is actually us, the ordinary Victorians, who have to meet this increasing debt. It seems we are paying ever-more taxes, while having important health and other services restricted in order to pay off the debt. There are many questions to be answered, including, why are we currently being forced to pay billions for a Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) which would give a few people the choice to travel by rail from Cheltenham to Box Hill, while those of us living in the north of Melbourne or regional Victoria suffer from lack of [any?] public transport? Suspending this underfunded project could surely help towards balancing our budget.
Elizabeth Meredith, Surrey Hills Public poorly served by privatisation ...
Can anyone point to privatisation that has led to better and/or cheaper services for the public. It seems to me that most of them mean losing a source of public revenue while leaving the public to pay more. The airport is just a particularly expensive example.
The cost of building Skyrail from the nearest point of the standard gauge line to the airport boundary would be hardly anything compared with, say the SRL, and far more n.
