The problem/solution nexus in megaproject planning

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Figure 1. Base case designs solution of the East-West Link (Eastern Section), not including ancillary upgrades or the extension to the port. Central Melbourne is at the bottom centre of the map (Department of Transport 2013, 89). © State of Victoria, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Table 1. Key documents problematising the East-West Tunnel.³

Date	Title	Type
08/2003	Northern Central City Corridor Strategy (Draft)	Local area analysis and strategy
05/2006	Meeting Our Transport Challenges: Connecting Victorian Communities	Metropolitan/State transport strategy
03/2008	Investing in Transport – East West Link Needs Assessment	Sub-regional analysis and infrastructure strategy
12/2008	The Victorian Transport Plan.	Metropolitan/State transport strategy
03/2013	East West Link: Business Case	Close-to-final transport, economic, and construction case for EWT
05/2014	Plan Melbourne: Metropolitan Planning Strategy	Integrated metropolitan strategic plan

Table 2. Key informants interviewed in this study.

ID	Relationship to EWT
01	Senior bureaucrat, VicRoads & other departments
02	Transport analyst, NCCCSD, EWLNA, & other studies
03	Transport/economic analyst, EWLNA & other studies
04	Senior bureaucrat, Department of Infrastructure
05	Transport/economic analyst, EWLNA, VTP, & other studies
06	Transport academic, adviser to Infrastructure Australia
07	Transport spokesperson and chair, inner municipal council
08	Planning academic and consultant, PM14 advisory council

Figure 2. The geographically constrained study area of the Northern Central City Corridor Strategy Draft (Department of Infrastructure 2003, 2). © State of Victoria, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Figure 3. Lines on a map: selective representation of the major roads of Melbourne. Arterials/freeways are black, circumferential roads blue, and network ‘gaps’ red (Department of Transport 2013, 35). © State of Victoria, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Table 3. Comparison of the different modes of benefit-cost analysis on some of the EWT iterations (Eddington 2008; Department of Transport 2013).

	Traditional BCR	BCR including WEBs
EWLNA (all projects)	0.74	0.94–1.36+
EWTBC	0.45	0.84
EWTBC + Extensions	0.73	1.19
EWTBC (Surface option)	2.35	4.62

Department of Transport. 2013. East West Link: Business Case (22 March 2013). Melbourne, Australia: Victorian Government. http://www.premier.vic.gov.au/east-west-link-announcement

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Department of Infrastructure. 2003. Northern Central City Corridor (NCCC) Strategy Draft. Melbourne, Australia: State of Victoria.

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Eddington, R. 2008. Investing in Transport: East West Link Needs Assessment. Melbourne, Australia: State of Victoria.

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