Legal costs mount for councils opposed to East West Link

By Mark Hawthorne and Aisha Dow
Updated July 26 2014 - 1:08am, first published 12:15am

Two Melbourne councils have spent more than $500,000 campaigning against the state government’s marquee East West Link project, and the rising costs of fighting the toll road could cost local councils more than $1.5 million.

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