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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

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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
Commuters will be forced to catch replacement buses between Bankstown station and Lidcombe.

Second passenger train line faces two-month closure

Commuters also face disruptions from full or partial closures of the busy M1 metro line over several weekends, as well as services stopping earlier some nights.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Emu in the Sky sculpture.

Taller than an A380, this mammoth sculpture will welcome you to Sydney’s new airport

The globe-like structure will tower 30 metres when it is finished, making it visible to passengers when the first flights start late next year.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
The $2 billion motorway is due to open ahead of the first passenger plane touching down late next year.
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Motorway to Sydney's new international airport

The $2 billion motorway is due to open ahead of the first passenger plane touching down late next year.

Tunnel breakthrough connects Sydney’s $7 billion harbour crossing to north

Excavation equipment has now churned through about a million tonnes of rock deep below the north shore, completing two-thirds of the entire project.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
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The delayed upgrade to the western part of Mona Vale Road has been given a boost by $250 million in federal funding.

Choke-point on key road to Sydney’s northern beaches finally set for fix

A delayed upgrade to the western end of the critical link has been boosted by $250 million in federal funding.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Commuters wait in a snaking line for B-line buses to the northern beaches at Wynyard station.

Fleet of new buses to be ordered for Sydney’s north after commuter hell

The state government will buy dozens of new buses in a bid to end long queues at stops along northern beaches and north shore routes.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
The analysis is dated September 2023 and is among internal documents released under freedom of information laws.

Revealed: The $95 billion shock hidden in Sydney toll road proposal

A confidential Treasury analysis reveals the staggering cost of a major change to toll roads that had been recommended by a review.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Governments on both sides of the political aisle have spent millions on political consultants to deal with the city’s patchwork tolling network.

Who benefits from Sydney’s patchwork of toll roads? Consultants

The government awarded the Royal Bank of Canada a $4.1 million contract for its negotiations with tolling operators, the latest in a long history of consultants making big profits off the network.

  • Michael McGowan

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