The trains to be used on the new airport metro rail line will be about 30 centimetres wider than the city’s other metro trains.

Delay to Sydney metro build forces ‘pause’ in production of new airport trains

The production pause in Europe illustrates the troubled state of the multibillion-dollar project and the ripple effect delays to one part is having on others.

  • Matt O'Sullivan

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Leah Stewart,pictured with her daughter,was attacked by a great white shark at Coogee.

Year-round drones and an audit of bull sharks:Beach safety plan unveiled

NSW Premier Chris Minns is not ruling out a cull of bull sharks and says any mitigation measures will depend on a population count.

  • Emily Kowal andMatt O'Sullivan
A render of 15- to 20-metre piles that will support the bridge structure over the Mitchell’s Causeway which was built by convicts almost 200 years ago.

Length of closure for damaged Blue Mountains highway revealed

A new bridge structure will be built above the unsafe part of the Great Western Highway constructed by convicts nearly 200 years ago.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
The Herald’s specialist reporters deliver their verdicts on the budget.

The Sydney project costs that hang over the state’s finances like a cloud

A freeze on Opal fares,shiny new hospitals but not much on housing:The Herald’s experts run their eyes over the budget and deliver their verdicts.

  • Kate Aubusson,Megan Gorrey,Christopher Harris,Matt O'Sullivan,Anthony Segaert andMatt Wade
Health gets an extra $10.3 billion.

Bedblock-busting pilot program aims to aid hundreds of stranded aged-care patients

There’s $10.3 billion extra for the health system,but from transport to housing and schools and western Sydney,here’s where else the money is being spent.

  • Kate Aubusson,Megan Gorrey,Christopher Harris,Matt O'Sullivan,Anthony Segaert andMatt Wade
Toll relief is coming in this year’s state budget.

Weekly cap on tolls for Sydney motorists to be lowered in state budget

The temporary cut will be part of a suite of targeted cost-of-living measures to be unveiled in the Minns government’s final budget before the next election.

  • Michael McGowan andMatt O'Sullivan
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The M7 motorway at Bella Vista in Sydney’s north-west.

Sydney toll shake-up deadline missed as motorway charges rise again

The first stage of a shake-up of toll prices was meant to “go live” on July 1,confidential documents show. Instead,tolls on seven motorways will rise.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
The first sinkhole opened above one of the tunnels at Rockdale for the M6 motorway in early March 2024.

Tunnelling to restart on Sydney motorway,two years after sinkholes halt work

Motorists still have a long wait before they can use the multibillion-dollar motorway,despite contractors finally returning to work on the project.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
All of Sydney’s 10 bus regions are operated by private companies,which are contracted by the state government.

Bus routes axed,new ones added under sweeping changes to Sydney network

The shake-up will affect bus routes from the northern beaches and north shore to the Hills,north-west and city’s south-west.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
The interchange connects the M12 motorway to the widened M7.

Major spaghetti junction to Sydney’s new airport set to open to drivers

The opening of the interchange linking the new M12 motorway to the M7 comes four months before the first passenger flights take off at Western Sydney Airport.

  • Matt O'Sullivan