$290m upgrade for crucial western Sydney airport road

Upgrades on a crucial road link in the Aerotropolis are finally getting under way, in a win for the Western Sydney residents and businesses.

A crucial road for the new airport will finally get an upgrade.

Upgrades on a crucial road link in the Aerotropolis are finally getting under way, in a win for the Western Sydney residents and businesses who have been pleading for infrastructure to keep up with booming population growth and commercial investment.

Premier Chris Minns will also kick of construction on a 20-hectare industrial complex in Kemps Creek on Thursday, with the site to provide 90,000 square metres of warehouse and office space to support hundreds of jobs.

The Daily Telegraph can reveal that work to upgrade Mamre Road will begin next month, three months after the Telegraph launched a campaign to get Sydney moving by investing in transport infrastructure.

In a win for The Tele’s Let’s Get Moving campaign, a four kilometre stretch between Erskine Park Road and the M4 motorway will be widened to double the capacity of the freight corridor.

Parts of the road, within the beleaguered Western Sydney Aerotropolis, will be upgraded from a single lane each way to a four-lane format. It will be built with capacity for a further widening in the future.

The work, expected to cost some $290 million, was first promised under the previous government.

Mamre Road will get a much needed upgrade. Picture: Richard Dobson

A number of intersections will also be upgraded.

The construction comes after the Minns government allocated $500 million in its June budget for the second stage of the Mamre Road upgrade, between Erskine Park Road and Kerrs Road at Kemps Creek. That investment takes total Federal-State funding of Mamre Road to $1 billion.

The funding was among $1 billion pledged by the NSW government in the June budget to upgrade roads around the Western Sydney Airport.

Construction on a new business hub will also begin on Thursday, with the Premier turning the first sod at Access Logistics Park.

The 20 hectare development will support hundreds of jobs and provide new warehouse and office space in the Aerotropolis.

Premier Chris Minns said the upgrades will help provide infrastructure “for growing communities”.

“We inherited roads around the new airport that were not up to standard, and where upgrades were years behind,” he said.

“This area is the engine room for jobs growth and our upgrade of Mamre Road is another boost for Western Sydney’s residents and businesses.”

Roads Minister John Graham said the construction is an “investment in jobs of the future”.

“The NSW Government is working hard to make the Sydney motorway system better utilised by truck freight which makes Mamre Road even more important as a critical connector between the M4 Motorway and the future airport,” he said.

Originally published as $290m upgrade for crucial western Sydney airport road