Talk:Cross City Tunnel

message: The "saga" continues... 
: The saga has made me wonder about adding a new category "White Elephant Infrastructure Projects", possibly to include this, plus maybe the Millennium Dome. That category name wouldn't really be NPOV though... maybe "Controversial Infrastructure Projects".
:: "White elephant" is certainly a term that lends itself to nNPOV. Almost all modertate to major sized infrastructure projects are controversial (at the very least NIMBYism is in action in most projects), so I don't know if such a category would add much. Cheers, --Daveb 08:14, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Do they expire? I had assumed that they would last for a while (a few years at least). I could easily be wrong though. -- All the best, Nickj (t) 02:23, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: White Elephant Infrastructure Projects

message: Is the point about nearby tollways being toll in one direction meant to be a critism of the XCT?  Making the XCT tolled in one direction only would surely make things worse. Tabletop 09:31, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The criticism is about the cost of using the road. Use any other single tollroad in the city area, and the cost of that one toll is the total cost for the return journey. If you use the cross city tunnel, it's twice the cost of one toll. As to whether charging more but in only one direction would help or not, it's hard to know. However at the moment the price is high enough, and public resentment about the road closures is strong enough, that people are deliberately not using the tunnel. Companies whose customers dislike them I suspect are not as profitable as they could otherwise be, nor I suspect will they have as strong a growth potential as they otherwise would. -- All the best, Nickj (t) 01:14, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Toll in one direction 

message: Can someone please change the picture? That picture has too many cars using the tunnel and does not accurately reflect the few cars that actually use it. :-) (JROBBO 10:09, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: Okay, in this  SMH article, it indicates that the cost of the tunnel was $800M (220M in equity, 580M in debt). Our "History" section, we say that it only cost $680M to build.  Assuming we are talking about the same sort of "cost", then both of these things cannot be true?
Any suggestions? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Grey.Label (talk • contribs) 04:00, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cost of tunnel? 

message: I just went through and converted all the in-body external links to references. Unfortunately the articles from news.com.au and the Daily Telegraph have expired, and I had to remove the references. If anyone can find working references for these items, they would be appreciated. --Crocodile Punter 09:56, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

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