November 2024
‘We didn’t set the tolls’: Transurban pitches new pricing plan
Company boss Michelle Jablko says NSW can’t afford to build roads without private money and is looking at charging corridors according to congestion levels.
- Jenny Wiggins
September 2024
- Exclusive
- Federal budget
King flags road and rail blowouts amid ‘severe’ budget constraints
Despite parochial outrage about road and rail funding, WA and NSW have signed up to Labor’s funding deal, though the Infrastructure Minister has flagged more cost blowouts are coming.
- Ronald Mizen
August 2024
Transurban investors get bigger payday but growth prospects scarce
The toll road giant reported a quadrupling of profits in the last financial year, with higher dividends expected. But it faces slower growth on its roads.
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- Jenny Wiggins
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Qantas case a timely warning for money-spinner Transurban
The flying kangaroo’s drama is relevant for Australia’s dominant toll operator, which is returning more cash than ever to investors despite political pressure.
- Anthony Macdonald
July 2024
- Analysis
- Roads
Sydney’s toll road overhaul is set to target the rich
Drivers who live in some of the city’s priciest suburbs may pay extra, but the benefits of reducing fares on many of its other motorways will be worth it.
- Jenny Wiggins
- Updated
- Transurban
Review finds Transurban should be forced to renegotiate Sydney tolls
The recommendations put the NSW government on a collision course with the ASX-listed motorway giant, which controls 11 of the city’s 13 toll roads.
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- Jenny Wiggins
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Transurban hijacks NSW toll review, raises social licence stakes
Transurban changed its tune in June, promising to be part of the solution. It has six months to come up with something better for Sydney’s drivers.
- Anthony Macdonald
Transurban contracts have ‘concerning’ lack of transparency: inquiry
The findings of a NSW parliamentary probe called after the opening of the Rozelle Interchange comes ahead of a government review into Sydney’s toll road system.
- Jenny Wiggins
RBC hitches a ride on NSW’s toll roads shake-up
In accepting the gig, RBC is also indirectly squaring off against ASX-listed toll roads giant Transurban, which owns stakes in 11 of Sydney’s 13 toll roads.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
May 2024
Labor adds $16.5b road and rail projects
The government committed $16.5 billion to road and rail projects, including $4.1 billion for 65 new developments – just 12 of which were revealed in the budget.
- Ronald Mizen
More congestion, more profit: ex-CEO slams Sydney interchange plan
Ex-NSW roads executives say the controversial Rozelle Interchange was designed to have more congestion to increase the value of WestConnex before it was sold.
- Campbell Kwan
Thousands of domestic violence victims hit by third-party data breach
Victoria’s largest public health service has been hit by an external data breach for patients between 1970 and 1993. NSW to deliver emergency domestic violence package in coming days. How the day unfolded.
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- Campbell Kwan
April 2024
‘How did they get it so wrong?’: Rozelle interchange still a debacle
A proposal to slow down tolled traffic heading into the Sydney CBD was “taken off the table” in January, a NSW parliamentary inquiry has been told.
- Jenny Wiggins
March 2024
Audit uncovers skipped tests, backfilled data on road project
Subcontractors helping to build roads have been faking tests, in one case backfilling data after layers of the road were laid down.
- Liam Walsh
NSW urged to take control of road tolls
A report urges the NSW government to set road tolls by legislation to save motorists from some of the $123 billion they are forecast to pay in coming decades.
- Updated
- Samantha Hutchinson and Jenny Wiggins
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Sydney toll agreements still stuck in coins era
If NSW is serious about rethinking Sydney’s toll roads, you can bet motorists (and voters) will be happy to see it put a bit of heat on Transurban.
- Anthony Macdonald
Half of $195b toll hit on Sydney drivers will come from WestConnex
Excerpts of a review into NSW toll roads shows drivers will be slugged $195 billion by 2060, but major roads remain clogged at peak hour.
- Nick Bonyhady
December 2023
Rozelle road designs kept from public view
Infrastructure Australia did not see final plans for the Rozelle Interchange and councils and communities had no access to details before the controversial project caused gridlock.
- Jenny Wiggins
How Australia’s ‘massive traffic muck-up’ stalled Sydney
The NSW government says it has “no intention” to change how lanes are configured on Sydney’s Anzac Bridge despite fury from residents stuck in traffic.
- Jenny Wiggins
‘I’m staring at a car park’: Rozelle chaos delivers hit to retailers
The owner of a popular sports shoe shop says congestion since the opening of the Rozelle Interchange has had an impact on retailers in the busy shopping strip.
- Samantha Hutchinson