Long-term research needed to ensure freight access into the growing southwest region
Transport for NSW has begun the slow process of identifying potential transport corridors in the burgeoning south-western suburbs of Sydney.
It is conducting a series of community consultations over the next two months to ascertain the likely road and rail requirements over the next thirty years.
The consultations follow on from the release of the Western Sydney Infrastructure Plan report card on June 10.
Assistant federal infrastructure minister Jamie Briggs says work has already begun on the $3.6 billion plan to capitalise on the second Sydney airport that has been slated for Badgery Creek.
“Major projects including stage one of the $509 million Bringelly Road upgrade and the $70 million Werrington Arterial Road upgrade have already commenced major construction,” Briggs says.
“Fourteen intersections, almost eight kilometres of road and 10 kilometres of shared paths have started since we announced this historic package last year.”
State roads minister Duncan Gay says an extra one million people are expected to be calling western Sydney home by 2031, with roughly one third of them heading to south-western Sydney.
“We are building the infrastructure upfront to support transport corridors, help the movement of freight and ease congestion,” he says.