Frustrated commuters blast Sydney's delayed light rail project as bludging tradies stare into a hole and tracks are held together by DUCT TAPE
- Shocking photos of duct tape and loitering workers surfaced of Sydney light rail
- They are the latest addition in a series of humiliating snapshots of the project
- Independent councillor Angela Vithoulkas agreed bad image plagued light rail
- The light rail is set to cost $2.1 billion - at least $1 billion more than first projected
Workers loitering on site and duct tape holding together tram rails are the latest photos to surface of the seemingly endless Sydney light rail construction.
The shocking photos have raised eyebrows over the multi-billion dollar project which as been plagued with delays and cost blowouts.
Latest estimates put the cost of the project at more than $2.1 billion - more than $1 billion over the initial budget.
On top of the soaring cost, delays have set the construction end date back to at least 2020 - and the latest photos might explain why.
Workers loitering on site and duct tape tacked onto tram rails (pictured) are the latest photos to surface of the unrelenting Sydney light rail project
The shocking photos seem to do no favours for the multi-billion dollar project that has become the laughing stock of Sydney (pictured, workers loitering around the work site)
An image of the light rail at the intersection of George and Bathurst streets in the CBD showed what appeared to be duct tape connecting the rails.
An angry Sydney resident posted the photo to Twitter with the caption: 'Track held by tape - is this the level of quality we can expect from #SydneyLightRail.'
VIVO cafe owner and Independent councillor Angela Vithoulkas questioned whether the project would ever finish.
'The current sentiment of people along the light rail route and people who see the light rail route - workers and tourists - all have a similar view in that, is it ever going to finish?' she told Daily Mail Australia.
'There is a negative perception that not much is ever being done and the work that is, is substandard.'
A photo of workers milling around the work site appeared to vindicate Ms Vithoulkas' concerns.
Despite workers being dressed in hard hats and work attire, they show little indication that they were getting on with the job.
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One worker was smoking a cigarette while his workmate rummaged in a bag.
Another photo on Facebook showed a handful of men standing around a hole at the section of the light rail in Randwick in Sydney's inner eastern suburbs.
'Sydneysiders' money being well spent there. Light rail at its finest,' the post read.
'7 highly trained backpackers looking at a 3 foot hole.'
Ms Vithoulkas said contractors and the government must be held to account for the mismanagement of the project, which has crippled many small businesses along the route.
'In any other context anyone else who carried out a project like this would've suffered the consequences by now,' the Independent councillor said of the overall project.
'But the builder, construction company and state government appear to be immune.
'People are unhappy and they have lost faith in state government being able to manage a project well and meet deadlines.
Another photo on Facebook showed a handful of men standing around a hole (pictured) at the section of the light rail in Randwick in Sydney's inner eastern suburbs
Only last November, a conga line of tradies and labourers wearing hard hats, protective gloves and hi-vis shirts were seen passing a single brick at a time at the CBD work site (pictured)
A worker enjoys a BBQ sandwich and another one is busy on his phone (pictured, last year)
'The big question on any state government project is what cost will this project have on local communities, because there are people's lives who will be forever destroyed by the light rail.'
The photos were the latest addition to a gallery of humiliating snapshots of the light rail project.
Last November, pictures emerged of a conga line of labourers were seen passing a single brick at a time at the work site in a stunning example of inefficiency.
Previous to that, employees were seen mistreating human bones discovered underground at a site near Central Station.
The bones were found along Chalmers Street in Surry Hills, near the old Devonshire Street Cemetery.
A spokeswoman for the construction consortium ALTRAC initially said the bones had been 'respectfully removed by heritage experts'.
But video taken by a whistleblower within the project's construction crew captured the human remains being thrown around after they were discovered.
Back in April, pictures showed workers on CBD work sites operated by the Spanish firm Acciona standing around a BBQ, reading their mobile phones and even sleeping, as Sydneysiders were stuck in a gridlock of traffic as a result of all the tram works and road diversions.
Daily Mail Australia reached out to Acciona for comment.
A worker chilled out on his backhoe as traffic snarled and the city streets bustled with foot traffic (pictured, last year)
The once-bustling heart of the city's CBD next to the Queen Victoria Building was (almost) deserted (pictured, last year)
