<span class="" id="parent-fieldname-description"> ACTâs shadow minister for Transport Alistair Coe has criticised the amount the territoryâs government is planning to spend on the cityâs new light rail network, by using quite a unique comparison. </span> <p>Coe reportedly loaned two Audi A3s and positioned them outside the entrance to Canberra’s Exhibition Park, where he then held a press conference, according to local paper The Canberra Times.<br /><br />Coe has been one of the biggest critics of plans to build a 12km light rail line through Canberra. The plan itself is costed at around $800 million.<br /><br />“When you are talking in such massive numbers, it is difficult to comprehend what that means,” Coe was quoted to have said.<br /><br />“What this exercise is all about is trying to put it into units that people can understand.<br /><br />“The cost of construction would buy 18,000 Audi A3 convertibles,” he said, “one for every househould in Gungahlin.”<br /><br />This was Coe’s latest campaign against the light rail plan, and follows his last statement, made in October, when he described the ACT government as being “arrogantly committed to light rail long before the presentation of [the project’s] business case”.<br /><br />“The project will not only be a financial disaster but a disaster for our economy as well,” he said.</p>
