However,the roads minister says it is clear it will take longer than three months to fix the damaged section of the road,which was built by convicts.
Eight hundred pages of confidential state cabinet documents reveal how a disciplined new Labor government in 2014 evolved into a “crash through” administration – until it struck the unexpected.
The Allan government is being asked to explain its slow progress upgrading the Western Freeway after waiting more than a year to provide Canberra with a business case to unlock $1 billion in federal funds.
The son of a western suburbs farmer who won $28m in compensation for the acquisition of his land for a future road has lashed the state government’s legal tactics.
A $50 million emergency injection into detour routes over the Blue Mountains also suggests the closure of the critical highway will be long-lasting.
The upgrades to key arterial routes come as a wide-ranging review sparks calls for plans for the multibillion-dollar Beaches Link motorway tunnel to be revived.
The consortium building the 10-kilometre project had complained to the government in March 2023 that the union’s mischief had pushed back tunnelling by as much as two months.
The Spark consortium raised complaints in 2023 about CFMEU obstruction on the $26 billion project,a revelation that puts further pressure on premier Jacinta Allan.
The deputy chair of Queensland’s e-mobility inquiry says pedal-assisted e-bikes should not be lumped in the same category as high-powered electric motorbikes. But proposed new laws will apply to both.
Contractors building the M6 motorway have been in a stand-off with the NSW government over who bears the cost of fixing sinkholes that opened up two years ago.