Wiki Wars

There is a new article in Wikipedia started by Gareth on the 1st July on the CBD and South East Light Rail. It is well researched and apparently written by a public servant with a lot of time on his hands. The article reiterates the cost of the project given by the government of $1.6 billion. I added the information that the announcement of the Project did not reveal where workshops for the trams would be located. Clearly the workshops would have to be taken into account for Treasury to estimate the cost. Within a couple of hours a contributor WWGB successfully applied to undo the comment on the grounds of insignificant detail.

Gareth and WWGB cannot remove details from Google servers so we will expand on the topic of the workshops. Restoring the tram workshops at Circular Quay would require the demolition of that building designed by Jan Utzon, which would be prohibitively expensive, and there is no space for them in Randwick, on the small traffic island outside the Prince of Wales Hospital. So it looks like South Sydney Leagues Club will be getting workshops on its car park in front of the Clubhouse. This is hardly an insignificant detail for its members and they deserve to be informed before being confronted by an Environmental Impact Statement. Residents in Kensington would also have an interest in the location of a noisy industry in their suburb.

It is almost six months since the State Government made the unheralded announcement of the Project and there is still no details other than lines of dots on two road maps. The Wikipedia article has less information than has been revealed subsequent to the announcement! The dot in Surry Hills shown in the original brochure has been given the name Devonshire Street/ Ward Park but in the article is referred to as Surry Hills. All attempts to correct this have also been undone.