<span class="" id="parent-fieldname-description"> The GoldLinQ consortium has spent $530m with local businesses for labour and materials in the time project staff logged three million staff hours on Gold Coast Light Rail Stage One. </span> <p>GoldlinQ chairman John Witheriff said the mammoth effort was attributed not only to the light rail employees but to the almost 400 suppliers that the consortium buys goods and services from in the local area since construction began in early 2012.</p><div> 
