WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2026
$15 BILLION TUNNEL EMPTY: RIORDAN
Hollywood visit for Thomas
ARDEN STATION VIEW ■ Parliamentarian Richard Riordan said the $15 billion Metro Tunnel was empty when he visited Arden Station. “I had an opportunity to tour the $15 billion Metro rail. For the benefit of my own constituents in Polwarth, I just thought I would make the observation that when I toured this $15 billion project that is five years overdue and $5 billion over budget, I went to the Arden Station. “And at the Arden Station in the middle of the day, there were no travellers. No-one got on the train, no-one got off the train. There were more cleaning staff. “There is even a police station. There were unfulfilled cafe services. And the beauty of this station, this $15 billion project station, is you come up the escalators, and you come to a grass paddock, a paddock that has got slashers cutting long grass. We have got the safety markers on the platform completely disintegrated, no safety barriers left, gardens overgrown, a complete and utter mess and trains that are packed trip after trip after trip.”
● Windsor author Thomas Slee is a winner in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest earning him a trip to Hollywood for a week-long masterclass workshop, an awards event and his winning story will be published in the international bestselling anthology, L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 42.
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