news.com.au 12/11/18:
Bill to fix Queensland’s botched new trains blows out to $336 million
It looks like the interior of any Australian train. But an error with $4.4b worth of new carriages has led to a bill of hundreds of millions of dollars.
A set of brand new Australian commuter trains, lauded at the time for being a cut price bargain, have proved to be anything but with taxpayers now being faced with a bill of almost $350 million to fix the flawed fleet.
That’s $4.5 million per train to fix a bureaucratic balls up which has turned into a blame game between Labor and the LNP. The trains won’t all be up to scratch for another six years.
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The trains arrived with ailing airconditioning, braking issues and — most damningly — didn’t meet the minimum requirements for disabled users; requirements that had been in place for a decade when the trains were ordered.
