Work will start soon on a $9-billion metro line in Melbourne, Australia. The project, said to be the state of Victoria’s largest-ever transportation investment, follows a larger expansion of the metro serving Sydney, some 800 kilometers away.
The Victoria state government last month closed a $4.8-billion, availability-based public-private partnership on the Melbourne metro with an Australian-French consortium and covering the line’s 9 km of twin tunnels and five underground stations.