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Victoria’s longest road tunnels, to be built as part of the $15.8 billion North East Link, would be extended even further under a private sector bid that has been favoured by the Andrews government.
The Andrews and Morrison governments, which are co-funding the project linking the Metropolitan Ring Road to the Eastern Freesay, have announced their preferred consortium to negotiate the $7-$9 billion contract to build tunnels beneath the Yarra River and Banyule Flats, and interchanges at Manningham Road and Lower Plenty Road in Melbourne’s north-east.
The Spark consortium, led by Milan-based WeBuild (formerly Salini Impregilo), submitted a bid that pitched extending the project’s twin three-lane tunnels, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the bid who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
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The Andrews government will keep secret a deal it signed with Beijing aimed at fostering Chinaâs government involvement in Victorian infrastructure projects.
The 2017 agreement was signed separately to the recently cancelled Belt and Road framework and is being looked at by the Commonwealth to determine whether it contradicts Australiaâs foreign policy interests. The agreementâs aim is to facilitate public-private partnerships between the Victorian government and Chinese firms, which tend to be state-owned.
Premier Daniel Andrews (second from left) at Beijingâs Temple of Heaven on his first official visit to China in 2015. Also there: (from left) Qenos chief executive Jonathan Clancy; former Labor MP Marsha Thomson; Melbourne University vice-chancellor Glyn Davis; entrepreneur Harold Mitchell; and Greater China commissioner Tim Dillon.
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