A highly confidential report lifts the lid on thinking about future metro projects at the most senior levels of the state’s transport and planning bureaucracy.
It is the question many Sydneysiders want to know: where will the next generation of the city’s metro rail projects go?It lifts the lid on thinking about future metro projects at the most senior levels of the state’s transport and planning bureaucracy after theMarked “Sensitive – NSW Cabinet”, the review charts a path for building up to six major rail projects over the next two decades in one of the OECD’s fastest-growing cities.
In concert with a separate review into the state’s infrastructure, Mrdak’s team settled on an “ideal assumption” of up to $4 billion a year in capital spending, adding that rail corridors in the city’s west offered the strongest housing, transport and economic development options. Three years ago, the $11 billion metro line under construction between St Marys and Bradfield via Western Sydney Airport came in for heavy criticism from the country’s peak infrastructure adviser, which warned the cost would
It is why the review team rated as a “priority action” a short extension of the line from Bradfield to a new “Bradfield South location” before building an extension north to Schofields. A key recommendation kept secret when the heavily redacted final report from the Mrdak review was released in December was for the government to “prepare an actionable road map … for investing in a 25-year/up to $3b-$4b per annum metro expansion pipeline”.
Coalition transport spokeswoman Natalie Ward says the future pathway of metro in western Sydney is clear. “The next challenge is the vision, delivery and budget management by a government to turn a pathway into a reality,” she says.city-section of the M1 metro line, which gave commuters an alternate way to cross the harbour during the morning peak.
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