NSW Labor's hatred of trams is not far beneath the surface:

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/labor-leader-michael-daley-backflips-on-comments-to-rip-up-light-rail/news-story/208500726c10b673ee07199c2c266194
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Labor Leader Michael Daley backflips on comments to ‘rip up’ light rail

Labor leader Michael Daley has been forced to clarify that he would not rip
up the maligned light rail project if elected Premier in March.

On Friday morning Mr Daley said on Sky News he would have to make “some
very hard decisions” about the light rail project if he was triumphant at
the election and didn’t rule out ripping up the project.

But after Transport Minister Andrew Constance labelled the idea “priceless
lunacy” and likened it to setting a pile of cash on fire Mr Daley released
a statement backing away from the comments and clarifying that he wouldn’t’
destroy the $2.1 billion project.

Mr Daley had told Sky News that he would assess the project once it’s up
and running and then make a decision whether to “rip it up”..

“We’ve got two options — if it’ll be up and running sometime in the next
one or two years, if I’m the Premier I can’t rip it up and then pay
compensation to the private consortium … for 15 years,” he told Sky News.

“(If I) rip it up I’ve still got to pay … for 15 years for running a light
rail that doesn’t exist.”

“We’ll pray that it works but if it doesn’t I’ll have to make a decision
won’t I, but who knows.”

Altrac has a contract with the government to build, operate and maintain
the Sydney and Inner West light rail for 15 years.

Mr Daley didn’t dismiss the idea of ripping the light rail out of the
ground when he was asked if he would “consider” such action..

“If it’s a scourge on this part of Sydney and is wrecking traffic on a
regional basis we’ll have to make some very hard decisions,” he said in
response.

The project is expected to be completed by late 2019 or early 2020.

Transport Minister Andrew Constance seized on the comments to attack Mr
Daley for “being out of touch”, telling The Daily Telegraph any move to rip
up the project was “priceless lunacy” and linked it to burning a pile of
cash.

“Ripped up, ripped off by an inexperienced Labor leader this reckless
behaviour reminds me of when he was Roads Minister under the last Labor
government. He is out of touch with public sentiment and would sooner see
hundreds of buses return to George St and along Anzac parade choking the
city,” he said.

“Ironically it would be years of disruption while Michael Daley and (Shadow
Roads Minister) Jodi McKay backed up their excavator. He might as well put
hundreds of millions of dollars of cash in a big pile at the bottom of
Martin Place and set a match to it.”

“It is just priceless lunacy from a bloke on L-plates — and not L for
leadership.”

Mr Constance said the project will be successful once it’s opened with each
light rail vehicle able to carry up to 450 people, the equivalent of nine
buses.

Just an hour after Mr Constance spoke out on the issue Mr Daley released a
statement saying he “unequivocally ruled out “ripping up” the Sydney light
rail”.

“We will make hard decisions in government but ripping up the light rail is
not one of them given the contract has been locked in by the Liberals,” Mr
Daley said in the statement.
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What Labor would do if elected is fail to give it any support or
encouragement, run competing buses etc like they did with the IWLR for 14
years and then after the 15 contract ends, heaven knows what. Also Daley
was a former Roads Minister and he talks like one.

The deeper concern is that Labor is actually going into this election with
no real transport policy, indeed with no transport vision whatsoever.

Tony P