The most expensive outlay has been $126 million to buy properties between the city and Rozelle.
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Premier Kristina Keneally last week announced that further compulsory land acquisitions had been cancelled ahead of Cabinet and budget committee meetings on whether the $5 billion metro should be ditched once and for all.
More than $270 million has been poured into a project that exists only in the form of computer animations and an endless stream of press releases.
The spending so far includes:
* $123.2 million on property purchases in the CBD;
* $2.8 million on property purchases in Rozelle;
* $104 million on stage one between Central and Rozelle;
* $29 million on stage two between Central and Westmead;
* $13 million on staffing, administration, offices and other costs;
* $660,000 on advertising; and
* $640,000 on preliminary planning, engineering and architecture studies.
The $146 million spent on what Mr Campbell calls “pre-construction” was spent on design, engineering, technical advice, detailed site investigations, the drilling of boreholes along the route, costing and financial advice, tender and contract management and “strategic studies”.