HOTTEST TICKET INTOWN Not an express service Rail project ‘years’ away

paul.weston@news.com.au ality is that under the Turnbull Government there will be no contribution to see Cross River Rail for at least more than two years and even then there’s no guarantee,” Ms Trad said.

The Federal Treasurer in the Budget instead announced the $8.4 billion Melbourne to Brisbane Inland Rail project which would require an 8.9km tunnel through the Toowoomba range.

Opposition leader Tim Nicholls called on the State Government to provide its business case for Cross River Rail.

“If the business case is so good why are you hiding it. Why are Queenslanders still in the dark,” he said.

“All the Federal Government is saying, giving us a business case you can rely on.”

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said Federal bureaucrats had indicated they had all the information they needed.

“We needed to see some dollars attached to Cross River Rail in last night’s Budget. We were robbed last night. Queensland was robbed,” she said.