Business groups have backed calls for light rail to replace buses on Oxford Street as lockouts,lockdowns,large shopping centres and heavy traffic get the blame for the busy thoroughfare’s ailing nightlife and empty shopfronts.
The rail union will push ahead with planned industrial action across Sydney’s train network next week despite the NSW government’s latest offer to resolve a standoff between the two sides.
The NSW opposition will take to the state election a policy pledge to abolish the corporation controlling the state’s railway assets.
The annual fare hike is less than the rate of inflation but double the size of the increase last year.
Nine months out from the state election,it has also emerged the first stage of the Parramatta light rail line has blown out by $475 million.
From a $4.5 billion boost for the introduction of an extra year of education and a plan to radically overhaul stamp duty,here are some measures coming in Tuesday’s state budget.
A controversial rail corporation is planning to slash the cost of an upgrade to the main part of the historic sandstone station.
Close to $50 billion worth of major infrastructure projects in NSW,including a key metro line,could be funded through private capital and Australian super,according to new analysis.
Sydney’s biggest public transport project has been swept up in a long-running dispute between the NSW government and rail unions.
A Herald reporter spent June 16,1947,“scaling” the Sydney trams and filed this report. More than £100,000 had been lost to fare avoidance the previous year.
Internal documents also show the government-controlled Transport Asset Holding Entity plans to spend $34.5 million on consultants over four years.