Melbourne $15.5 Billion Metro Tunnel Set to Open Early Despite Firefighter Union Safety Concerns

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Melbourne $15.5 Billion Metro Tunnel Set to Open Early Despite Firefighter Union Safety Concerns
Melbourne $15.5 Billion Metro Tunnel Set to Open Early Despite Firefighter Union Safety Concerns

Then then-Minister for Transport Infrastructure and Minister for Suburban Rail Loop Jacinta Allan (L) and former Premier of Victoria Daniel Andrews (C) with workers pose for a photo underground from the site of the currently being built, State Library station, as part of the Metro Tunnel metropolitan rail infrastructure project in Melbourne, Australia, on Nov. 6, 2020. Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images

The Victorian Labor government will partially open the $15 billion Melbourne Metro tunnel early in December.

Starting construction in 2017, the tunnel connects the Sunbury line in the west to the Cranbourne and Pakenham lines in the southeast, consisting of five new stations.

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