Every horror aficionado knows you can’t kill a zombie because it’s already dead.

Labor’s got its own unkillable zombie on its hands – the East West Link – and even though Premier Daniel Andrews and Treasurer Tim Pallas put an axe in its head and buried it more than three years ago, it’s still threatening to claw its way out of its shallow grave.

On Monday, Infrastructure Australia took to that burial plot with a shovel.

Then premier Denis Napthine announcing the design and land acquisition for East West link in 2013. Credit:Wayne Taylor WMT

Its latest priority list recommends linking the end of the Eastern Freeway with CityLink within five years, finding the east-west roads of the inner north impose the highest economic cost, measured by delay, of any road corridor in Melbourne.