Talk:Suburban Rail Loop

Cost estimates

Copied from User talk:TriptothecottageThe issue I have with the costings is the estimates around $100 billion are a reference towards for the RFI alternative proposal, which is not the SRL specifically.

The comments from the opposition are just unreliable, it's just to question how Labor can deliver the project. Remember how they came up with a 19 billion figure for their High Speed Rail project.

Daniel Bowen who is a well respected transport blogger / campaigner and spokesperson for PTUA. Gave a good idea of the estimate of the cost of the project.

"Here’s a back of the envelope costing: The Metro 1 tunnel now under construction is 9 kilometres of twin tunnels and 5 stations, costing about $10 billion. Let’s assume for a moment that each station costs $1 billion, and tunnels cost $0.5 billion per kilometre.

Metro 3 as initially envisaged is 90 kilometres and 12 stations (though I would strongly argue for at least a handful more stations). Based on that rule of thumb, we’d be looking at $45 + $12 = $57b. So about $50b or less might be close to the mark, assuming some economies of scale from the bigger project, and remember that some of the route won’t underground."

<Source: https://www.danielbowen.com/tag/metro-3/>

The $50 Billion figure is around the ball-park what the project may cost. The upper cost $100 billion is used to oppose the project not shown on paper how that figure is worked out. The government who proposed the idea, has worked on this in secrecy for 12 months before announcement, also they are working on a business case, which will probably show a more exact amount of the cost of the project. So their figure is more justified than the opposition, who doesn't have much to work on to show how they came up with their figure of $100 billion.

Message sent by User: True Believers (talk) 22:33, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

and copied by Triptothecottage (talk) 23:39, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

@Triptothecottage Sorry for the late response. Thank you for responding to my concerns over the costings of the projects. I was unaware you knew what I've shared on the Railpage site. I'm always interested in the transport area particularly in Melbourne. I've even had a go at making Youtube videos mostly on talking about my views on Transport projects around Melbourne. Feel free to have a look :) if you are curious. True Believers is the name of the channel.

I will have a better look at Wiki's guidelines and rules so that I can improve on what I edit on the site. Thank you for your insight and your welcome.

I think the reason why I came onto wiki was to update on the PTV Network Development plan wiki page. I may look at editing other pages or creating new pages on upcoming transport projects. Since there has been a huge list of transport projects going on particularly in Melbourne, there may be need for more people to try to add more to this area of field.

Message sent by User: True Believers (talk) 14:02, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

Wyndham Vale and use of RRL corridor

As in title - is the SRL planned to stop at Wyndham Vale now? Initially that wasn't the case, but these two sites https://transport.vic.gov.au/our-transport-future/our-projects/suburban-rail-loop (gov site) https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/suburban-rail-loop-work-begins-as-geologists-drill-deep-for-50b-line-20190723-p529yw.html#comments suggest so, yet https://suburbanrailloop.vic.gov.au/ (also a gov site) doesn't

--Iamthinking2202 (talk) 13:50, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

SRL Airport/Melbourne Airport rail link

Please see a talk post I have started at Talk:Melbourne Airport rail link#SRL Airport/Melbourne Airport rail link. Cheers, Fork99 (talk) 03:33, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

Clarity of Cheltenham Station Name

With the SRL Cheltenham station being constructed, can we reword some lines to such as "one continuous metro line stretching 60 km (37 mi) from Cheltenham to Melbourne Airport" to something closer to "one continuous metro line stretching 60 km (37 mi) from a new station located next to Southland station in Cheltenham to Melbourne Airport".

Whilst the name of the SRL station is Cheltenham, it is located directly across the road from the Melbourne Metro Station of Southland and can easily be confused with the Melbourne Metro Station also called Cheltenham. Esc.Trains (talk) 06:43, 22 February 2024 (UTC)