North East Link Project Overview, Budget, Benefits, Drawbacks, Key Statistics, Risk Analysis

Table of Contents
1. Project overview................................................................................................................2
1.1. Overall budget..................................................................................................................2
1.2. Benefits............................................................................................................................2
1.3. Drawbacks.......................................................................................................................2
1.4. Key statistics....................................................................................................................3
1.4.1. Scope and size..................................................................................................................3
1.4.2. Estimated cost..................................................................................................................................3
1.5. Key stakeholders..............................................................................................................4
1.5.1. Key construction phases...................................................................................................................4
1.5.2. Environmental costs/benefits...........................................................................................................4
1.6. Funding mechanisms........................................................................................................5
2. Risk analysis......................................................................................................................5
Potential risks...............................................................................................................................5
3. Risk mitigation plan.........................................................................................................11
References................................................................................................................................18

1. Project overview
North East Link will start on Eastern Freeway at Springvale Road to M80 Ring Road at
Greensborough. It is of 11 km in length and resolves the missing link between Eastern
Freeway and Greensborough. It handles around 100,00 vehicles every day.
1.1. Overall budget
The total cost of the proposed Link is %15 billion dollars. It includes 11.9 billion dollar of
Real P50 and 12.7 billion dollar of Real P90 (Northeastlink.vic.gov.au., 2019).
1.2. Benefits
The link will prove to be beneficial with respect to productive businesses, competitive supply
chains, economic growth, prosperous households and liveable neighbors. The proposed North
East Link project provides following benefits:
 Reduce the travelling time by 30 minutes between Melbourne’s north and south-east.
 It will remove 15,000 trucks from the local roads.
 Businesses in north east will have access to 62,000 more workers.
 Because of business clustering, productivity will increase by 590 million dollars.
 Local industry and economy will get boost because of soother transportation.
 Provide access to the educations to residents of North East.
 56,000 more job opportunities shall be accessed by the workers of North east.
 People will get a chance for walking and cycling.
1.3. Drawbacks
Such a big project cannot be made without any undesirable impacts. The construction will
have adverse impacts such as disruptions in traffic, emission of dust generated from removal
of spoil, increase in noise level and vibration level, visual impact and restricted access to
facilities. It will also affect the waterways.
North east is a big construction project and since it acts as a link between two areas then there
shall be a need to acquire some residential areas of northern Lower Plenty Road for
construction tasks. Many residents of these areas will have emotional attachment with their
properties and local community. Hence, they must be reluctant and impacts will be very
higher than expected. The whole construction event may be very stressful to them and finding
an alternative to their residential property may be even more challenging.
The construction activities may result in increasing the noise level because of upgraded or
new structure of roads. They may have higher traffic volumes. To combat with this, noise

modelling shall be done to establish mitigation requirements of noise. New noise barriers will
be installed to mitigate the enhanced noise level to obtain necessary noise levels.
These stated and potential longer impact shall be discussed during the environmental and
planning phase which will also figure out the measures to avoid, transfer or mitigate negative
impacts. A set of EPRs i.e. Environmental Performance Requirements shall be defined for
the project to provide a minimum number of environment outcomes. The project needs to
ensure that it achieves them with respect to design, operation and construction.
1.4. Key statistics
1.4.1. Scope and size
 Construction of new 11 km roadway between Eastern Freeway and M80 Ring at
Greensborough
 Upgradation of M80 Ring Road between Greensborough and plenty road
 The roadway will go into longest tunnel of Victoria.
 M80 Ring Road will be upgraded between the Greensborough and Plenty Road.
 The roadway will transition into a new structure which goes in north towards
Koonung Creek in order to connect the Freeway.
 A dedicated bus lane will be constructed for uninterrupted path for buses
travelling between central city and Doncaster.
 The road will provide interchange service at Mannigham road, Bulleen road,
Grimshaw street and M80 Ring Road.
1.4.2. Estimated cost
The total cost of the proposed project was calculated using past project experiences
which were developed by NELA. It uses the concept design of the North East project
as the base to form the entire capital expenditure of project.

1.5. Key stakeholders
North East construction project has following stakeholders:
 Bus corporation
 Public
 State government
 NELA
 Construction project team
1.5.1. Key construction phases
Following are key phases of the proposed construction project:
 The first phase will include the approvals on planning report from North East Link
Project. The information regarding the approvals shall be submitted by
Environment Effects Statement (EES) which is the most transparent process of
Victoria. The EES project will be completed within 30 days of 1st quarter of 2019.
 The construction of North East Link will be constructed during 2020. The world
will witness the investment of 200 Million Billion dollars in initial work.
 The North East Link shall be open for commuting by 2027 (North East Link -
Business Case Key findings May 2018, 2018).
1.5.2. Environmental costs/benefits
The construction will be having some negative impacts on the environment such as
enhanced noise level and moving of residential population. The nose level can be
managed through noise controlling barriers but the shifting of locals may lead to
emotional trauma in residing community.
1.6. Funding mechanisms
The budget shall be majorly funded by the State Government. The revenue generation
will be done through tolling charges received from the commuters. The amount of toll
will be calculated through detailed modelling. The calculation will also take of tolls
having similar rates on other similar roads. 22% funding shall come from tolls and State
government will contribute the rest of the funding.
2. Risk analysis
Qualitative analysis
It is a type of risk assessment which primarily analyses risk based on the risk matrix table and
calculates it based on the severity of impact and the probability of occurrence. This is