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4 hours ago, Ted Fidge said:

That Eddie. What a card. Heard a brief bit of him on SEN going on about how we need infrastructure projects in this state, and we'll be able to sell the land above the new underground station which gets freed up, and we'll be able to teach the superannuation investment companies how to invest in local projects, and and and ... it's all so easy, and Eddie clearly has the state's interests at heart more than anything else.

So glib, and so machine gun rapid fire that the announcers weren't able to pull him up on any of it.

It won't happen because it will be so damn expensive. Putting Richmond station underground and selling off the land above won't even pay for the putting underground. Not to mention the rebuilding of Hisense not to mention the new stadium itself, or the underground road which will emerge where exactly? There's already a tunnel under there.

After Dan's adventures with the East-west link, skyrail to Frankston, trying to sell the management of the ports, there is no way known political capital will be spent to find money for this venture.

But the outcome would be an MCG-class stadium right next to ... oh, Collingwood's offices! How about that. Victoria Stadium. We could call the area around it Victoria Park, if we do it often enough the ground will be called Victoria Park as well. I wonder how often Eddie will make a completely accidental slip of the tongue and call it Victoria Park.

It's so close to the Collingwood training oval, hell, they might as well train on the good one. Vic Park that is.

Eddie is so effin' transparent.

Basically we'd be pulling down a high standard stadium so we could build another high standard stadium not far away. Put a train station underground so we could sell off the land above to (not quite) pay for putting the station underground. And knock down a perfectly good tennis stadium to build another tennis stadium right next door. Finally, a quick bit of traffic infrastructure and engineering to just pop Swan St underground and whip up some entry and exit ramps some convenient place nearby. Good one. Forcibly acquiring the bits of Punt Rd that they are entitled to is causing the govt enough anguish as it is.

Good thing Brumby is not still premier otherwise it would all be legislated already.

Brilliant Ted, absolutely nailed it. Post of the day if not the week

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