We're in The Age

Clay Lucas from The Age spoke to some Railway Place residents this week - read his full article.

The article quotes RMIT's transport planner Dr Paul Mees, who said the government's inability to say where the train line would run 18 months after it was announced was proof the project had not been properly thought through. The Rudd government last year gave the line $3.2 billion in public funding because it was ''shovel ready''.

Options for the RRL path through Footscray include a rail tunnel under the suburb, use of the little-used rail tunnel that already runs under part of Footscray (an option proposed by Dr Mees and backed by former World Bank rail planner Ed Dotson but apparently not by the Department of Transport), and bulldozing the rail corridor so it can be widened to accommodate new tracks.

Oh, and we issued a media release (PDF document).