Infrastructure
‘Something has to change’: Feeling the squeeze of the Big Build’s big bill
Since coming to power in 2014, Labor has launched an unprecedented transport infrastructure blitz, but it has also saddled Victoria with the highest debt of any state and it’s putting pressure on the government.
- by Patrick Hatch and Broede Carmody
Latest
‘We went berko’: How water is imperilling Sydney’s vaunted aerotropolis
For 15 years, developers didn’t have to pay a cent toward new water infrastructure in Sydney. When that changed, it set off a firestorm that is yet to be resolved.
- by Michael Koziol
Opinion
Public transport
The cost of the SRL will be huge. Not building it would cost us so much more
Compared to other cities and other nations, we are a rail backwater. Getting on with the SRL and an airport train line are the only options for the future of our city.
- by Neil O'Keefe
States will have to prove big builds worth it before Albanese government chips in
Infrastructure Minister Catherine King says tough new rules on road and rail projects “can and must” prevent delays and cost blowouts.
- by David Crowe
Exclusive
Metro Tunnel
Trains will need slower speeds beneath Parkville to protect hospitals
Leaked documents detail a need for a slower pace in the Metro Tunnel near the new Parkville station to limit interference with nearby specialist health equipment.
- by Clay Lucas and Kieran Rooney
‘Like Donald Trump designed it’: The Sydney smokestack compared to a chicken nugget
A proposed gold ventilation outlet at the end of the tunnel that connects the new Western Harbour Tunnel from Rozelle to the north shore has angered locals.
- by Julie Power
Does the building site across the road sound too loud? It probably is
The residents across the road from the Sydney Fish Market have learnt the hard way that the noise assessment process for construction work is deeply flawed.
- by Harriet Alexander
Why Sydney needs to bring back this abandoned ‘missing train link’ from the ’80s
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.
- by Michael Koziol
Couple loses property fight after highway swallows $5.5 million dream
Raymond and Wendy Dibb saw a chance to make money out of a small rural property. They were not planning on a $2.2 billion highway barrelling through their plans.
- by Catherine Naylor
Exclusive
Roads
$13b later: How CityLink became toll giant’s best moneymaker in the world
Motorists have paid nearly $13 billion to drive on CityLink since it opened 24 years ago – and they’re going to pay billions more, with prices rising up to three times faster than inflation.
- by Patrick Hatch
Qld to spend $11b on cost-of-living, inflation help as it looks for savings
As coal prices fall, the Labor government is having to rely more on property and payroll taxes to fund its pre-election commitments.
- by Matt Dennien
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