PERTH'S $440 million Elizabeth Quay has become a hot election issue as the riverside development causes major traffic congestion in the city.
WA Labor leader Mark McGowan has said he will stop the bulldozers if elected on March 9 and explore renegotiating a $200 million contract.
But Premier Colin Barnett says Labor's planned changes would be too expensive and turn the project into an inner-city pond.
Mr McGowan said he would like to keep Riverside Drive open or come up with better traffic arrangements.
"Contracts are renegotiated all the time," he told ABC radio.
"If it's possible, and we'll save money from it, that's what we'll do."
Mr McGowan said the traffic congestion in the city was outrageous, and the Elizabeth Quay works were only going to make it worse.
Putting a land bridge over Riverside Drive would be much cheaper and would bring the city to the river - instead of the other way around under the current project, Mr McGowan said.
He said Labor would create a piazza on an area cleared for the project.
Mr Barnett said while Labor's changes could be implemented but they would impose a "massive cost" on taxpayers.
"I can't work out whether Labor supports Elizabeth Quay or not," he told Fairfax radio.
"We get conflicting, sitting-on-the-fence comments all the time.
"To put a bridge over the top of it would mean that it would destroy the whole concept."
The premier said Elizabeth Quay was meant for families and pedestrians - not cars.
While there had been major disruptions while it was being built - and there would be more - it was an important project that was supported by most people, he said.
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