need huge amounts of money to rectify
This is a classic.
A major toilet cubicle design flaw in the State Government's $4.4 billion New Generation Rollingstock trains means the carriages will be transported to Maryborough from India to be fixed.
In what is mounting as a farcical situation for the heavily delayed train building contract with Canadian manufacturer Bombardier, southeast Queensland public transport company TransLink has confirmed all 75 trains under the contract will be built in India and shipped to the state with the identified design flaw.
37 trains, which will still be built with problem toilet cubicles, are yet to enter production under the project.
The faulty trains will then be split into individual cars and driven by truck to Maryborough, where the toilets will be modified to meet disability access standards.
It follows a $155 million deal with local manufacturer Downer EDI to fix the trains was announced by the Labor Government two weeks before the 2017 state election.
The patch-up funding was trumpeted as a boon for local jobs in the must-win seat of Maryborough.
But it was never revealed until now that faulty trains would continue to be built under the plan.
Mr Saunders said the good news was the required work would bring "substantive" jobs back to the job-starved town of Maryborough.
Why in heavens name would you continue to build the trains in India knowing full well that they will require modification once the arrive in Qld.
To top it off, Bombardier indicated that they would modify the trains at a cost of $ZERO.