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Giant boring machines have been used to excavate twin tunnels for the metro rail line to Western Sydney Airport.

Dispute threatens $2.2 billion cost blowout, major delay to Sydney’s new metro line

Passengers hoping to take the train to the new airport may have to wait an extra year – even if the dispute is resolved on contractors’ terms.

  • Matt O'Sullivan

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An artist’s impression of Stage 2 of the Rouse Hill Town Centre.

This suburb is booming, and there’s more development on the way. What comes next?

For years, Sydney’s north-west corridor has been the centre of urban growth – and in a familiar story, infrastructure hasn’t kept up. But there’s a plan for change.

  • Anthony Segaert
John Graham.

Big enough for 30,000 elephants, major Sydney metro station reaches milestone

Australia’s largest underground rail cavern has been scraped from tonnes of sandstone beneath Sydney’s city centre.

  • Megan Gorrey
Marc Cote at Central Station, where his walking tour Secrets of the City Circle starts and finishes.

The surprising stories and secrets of Sydney’s City Circle line

Hopping on and off trains, Marc Cote tells a fascinating two-and-a-half hours of subterranean stories.

  • Garry Maddox
The NSW government is forging ahead with revised plans for an $11 billion redevelopment of Central Station.

Grand Sydney Central Station plans may not be so grand

Rezoning proposals to curb development at Central Station create more planning confusion.

  • The Herald's View
Doctors demanding more pay and better conditions at Westmead Hospital during a strike earlier this month.

Revealed: What NSW voters really think of their schools and transport

Despite Premier Chris Minns making the restoration of trust in public services central to his election pitch two years ago, fewer than half of voters have positive opinions about most key services.

  • Michael McGowan
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Central Station.

Critical rezoning plans for Sydney’s Central Station on chopping block

The major changes to rezoning plans will be a setback to future development of one of the central city’s most significant sites, critics argue.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
The signage situation at Central Station.

Memo to Transport: It’s not compulsory to ruin every beautiful thing

We just spent $1.3 billion making Central Station beautiful. But now, out of apparent safety concerns, we appear intent on ruining it.

  • Anthony Segaert
The M12 motorway will provide a link to the new Western Sydney Airport.

Construction of motorway to Sydney’s new airport hits financial bumps – again

The cost of the 16-kilometre motorway to Western Sydney International Airport has steadily risen over the past five years.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Worker Isra Nand carries out welding repairs to a bendy bus at a maintenance facility at Smithfield in Sydney’s west.

Inside the yard where Sydney’s bendy buses are being put back together again

Moving the doors on 83 buses found to have cracks is critical to easing chronic delays for commuters on the northern beaches and north shore.

  • Matt O'Sullivan

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