CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT
Not even one week, and several break-downs, since the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Canberra Light Rail – it has been today revealed that the long-awaited public transport project will officially recieve heritage listing status.
As the Capital continues to somehow grow in population, the new light rail project comes only a few months late on it’s 93rd revised deadline – but arguably 106 years late in that it’s an out-of-date solution for current and future mass transit needs.
The ACT Heritage Council has today officially approved a request to place the one line of heavy rail infrastructure and its stations on the state heritage register.
The ACT government/council has approved the request, stating that the decision creates a conservation area that locals have come to already know as untouchable, given the years of construction work.
Numerous commuter and school bus services have been cut in order to fund the exciting light rail, and force dbus commuters onto the trams.
Re-routed bus travellers have to cross the main drag to get from bus to light rail in what has been described as an infrastructure project so heritagey (sic) that it has completely avoided all the proposed alternatives of overhead walkways and subways.
In its first week, the light rail from Gungahlin carried over 100,000 passengers and proved to be the success that its supporters knew it would be when it became the city’s key election issue that saw the toppling of a previous government in 2016.
“How good” said one local Ray Dersfan (66).
“It’s good to know that we can respect the heritage and historical element of our city’s public transport solutions”
“Now all we need is school buses”
