Premier Daniel Andrews can't be trusted to deliver Melbourne's "missing link" freeway when he wasted $1.5 billion ditching the East West Link, the state opposition says.
Mr Andrews on Wednesday announced $100 million in funding in next week's state budget to plan the North East Link toll road, but the opposition says this is nothing more than spin.
Opposition leader Matthew Guy says there's no way the planning for the road could be done for $100 million, although he admits it does need to be built.
"This is less than one per cent of the whole project cost and Daniel Andrews is telling everyone he's launched it," Mr Guy said.
"It will cost four to five times the amount the premier has promised today - just look at the East West Link Planning, that was hundreds of millions of dollars."
Mr Andrews said he would get the business case fully completed by the next election in November 2018 for $100 million.
"All the geotechnical work, all the design and all the prerequisites to get this project ready and to get contracts signed will be done in the event that we are re-elected," Mr Andrews told reporters.
"We'll be ready to sign contracts in 2019. It's time to build that missing link. As logic tells you, you can't have a ring road that doesn't join up."
He said he's also confident the federal government will be happy to partner with the project in the future.
The premier also confirmed next Tuesday's state budget will feature an $846 million commitment to bring forward the removal of a further eight level crossings, with 37 either complete or under way before the end of 2018.
He also said there would be no family violence levy in the budget - after saying in November he was "actively considering it."
Mr Andrews ruled out the levy but said there will be "will be very, very significant investment in the budget" for family violence.
Mr Guy called the premier a "snake oil salesman" and said it was hard to know what to believe because Mr Andrews changes his mind from month to month.
