Opinion: Perrottet looks west to keep Coalition on the rails before election | AlexSmithSMH
As the former federal government was hastily announcing commuter carparks in Coalition seats ahead of the 2019 election, their state counterparts in NSW were shaking their heads. None too subtle hints to join forces to build big, nationally significant projects fell on deaf ears.
Some of these projects, including a link from Sydney’s northern beaches to the CBD, which was former premier Gladys Berejiklian’s pet project, have been election promises. Putting them on ice is a major political gamble, handing the opposition ready material with which to campaign. Advice from the independent experts does not, of course, factor in the political implications of not delivering promised public transport or roads, especially in the electoral battleground of western Sydney, where the March election will be won and lost. On the same day its own experts released their report, the government had already taken the second stage of Parramatta light rail to its expenditure review committee for approval.
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