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The tolling giant building the West Gate Tunnel claims the cost of the project has blown out by a further $1 billion to a total of $11 billion, more than double the original estimate.
Tunnelling workers on the $6.7 billion West Gate Tunnel will earn more than $300,000 a year after the project’s builders cut a pay deal with one of Victoria’s powerful building unions.
The Victorian Ombudsman is probing the Andrews government amid allegations it is failing to alleviate worsening truck traffic in Melbourne’s inner-west caused by a new toll road, the $6.7 billion West Gate Tunnel.