Light rail vote call

Updated April 23 2018 - 9:02pm, first published February 15 2015 - 6:29pm

We need to have an election to resolve the matter of light rail for Canberra. This must happen before the government locks us into contracts. I say this for one simple reason: the government has no mandate for pursuing light rail in the form now proposed. In the run-up to the 2012 election the Labor Party committed $30million over 2013-2015 to undertake concept and design work, including working out the finance and delivery methods.

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