The pressure continues to mount on the state government over the huge cost of cancelling the Suburban Rail Loop.

3AW Mornings host Tom Elliott has crunched the numbers and says it’s “not a pretty number”.

“It would probably be the biggest waste of money ever seen in Australian history,” Elliott said on 3AW Mornings.

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“It is not a pretty number, it is a huge amount of money.”

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