The government has been urged to resuscitate a long-lost railway line from Port Kembla to south-west Sydney or risk wasting the potential of the city’s new airport.
A missing rail link from Sydney’s south-west to Port Kembla and Wollongong must be completed to realise the potential of western Sydney’s new airport and the growing Macarthur region, the NSW government has been told.
The group’s chief executive, Adam Leto, said south-west Sydney and the Illawarra shared a high concentration of construction, health, retail and education workers. A bridge and some tunnel portals were completed, and the corridor was preserved. In 2014, the state government opened an expression of interest for the private sector to build and operate the line, but it found ongoing public funding would be needed to make the venture commercially sustainable.
The IA listing notes this could occur through enhancements to the Moss Vale-Unanderra line, “or through future development of an alternative rail alignment to the port”.
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