{"id":441134,"date":"2025-12-11T23:21:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/441134\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:21:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:21:18","slug":"melbournes-west-gate-tunnel-ready-to-take-cars-from-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/441134\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne’s West Gate Tunnel ‘ready to take cars from Sunday’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melbourne’s troubled West Gate Tunnel will finally be ready to welcome motorists on Sunday, according to sources.<\/p>\n

The project, which is three years overdue, provides another major road link between the city’s booming western suburbs and the CBD.<\/p>\n

While the government is refusing to officially say when it will open, multiple sources have told the ABC it will be ready to open this Sunday with a formal announcement expected later this afternoon.<\/p>\n

Premier Jacinta Allan repeatedly declined to confirm Sunday as the opening date when asked about the tunnel on ABC Radio Melbourne on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

“We’re working through the details and we’ll confirm that date very soon,” she said.<\/p>\n

\"People<\/p>\n

Thousands of Melburnians got their first look inside the tunnel last month. (ABC News: Leanne Wong)<\/p>\n

The project was initially costed at $5.5 billion with just $400 million of taxpayer investment, but that has since blown out to $10.2 billion with the state chipping in $4.2 billion.<\/p>\n

Melburnians got their first look inside the tunnel last month<\/a> when it opened to foot traffic for a “discovery day” that saw 50,000 people walk through the tunnel.<\/p>\n

The event was held despite protests from the United Firefighters Union (UFU) which claimed the tunnel had not undergone adequate safety checks.<\/p>\n

The government and Major Road Projects Victoria dismissed those concerns and said the tunnel had been sufficiently tested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne’s troubled West Gate Tunnel will finally be ready to welcome motorists on Sunday, according to sources. The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":441135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,73629,50,203556,203555],"class_list":{"0":"post-441134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-jacinta-allan","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-victorias-big-build","12":"tag-west-gate-tunnel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115703506088805188","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}