Insiders estimate the payout could exceed the $1.1 billion it cost the Andrews government to cancel the East West Link.

A pledge to redirect federal funding from a rail loop to an airport line risks turning the election into a referendum on trains, a political scientist warns.

Thrust into the federal election spotlight, a major rail loop is coming under increasing fire from communities where it is ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has declined to rule out his government putting more money into the $34.5 billion first phase of Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop despite a major report warning it ...

Melbourne's Suburban Rail Loop has become a political punching bag ... Its price tag was revised to $34.5 billion for the eastern section alone, but Infrastructure Australia recently cast doubt ...

Federal and state coalitions are pledging $1.5 billion each for a major airport rail link, that would effectively kill off a second keystone project.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Suburban Rail Loop’s business case canvassed ways to walk away from the project if it did not receive its expected funding ...

The coalition's "calculated" move to scrap spending on a controversial rail project in a key battleground state has sparked calls for a broader discussion on how federal governments fund ...

Petter Dutton says the Coalition will scrap $2.2 billion in federal funding for Victoria's Suburban Rail Loop. Mr Dutton says a Coalition government would prioritise the Melbourne Airport Rail ...

An Infrastructure Australia report on Melbourne's Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) urged the state government create an "exit strategy" in case the orbital train line cannot be delivered. It called on the ...