Western Sydney ( Badgerys Creek ) airport

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https://twitter.com/9NewsSyd/status/1181115824733470720

[timh]

https://twitter.com/9NewsSyd/status/1181115824733470720

Great proactive approach down in Parramatta. This is a technology we should get behind.

It's interesting though to see these vehicles marketed as "trackless trams" but the BCC Brisbane Metro vehicles have never been marketed as such. I don't see a difference, except maybe it seems the Parramatta ones seem to have higher capacity and are tri- if not quad-artics

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Daily Telegraph --> $3.5b boost to secure start on Western Sydney Airport rail line

Construction will start this year on the new Western Sydney Airport train line after Prime Minister Scott Morrison and NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian pledged a further $3.5 billion to get shovels into the ground.

The jointly funded project will cost $11 billion and see trains pulling into stations at the airport at Badgerys Creek when it opens in 2026.

"Getting work started on this project and many other infrastructure projects across NSW and Australia is critical to my government's JobMaker program as we rebuild the economy during COVID-19," Mr Morrison said.

"Construction is already well under way on the airport, and later this year works will start on this new Metro service which will link the suburbs of Western Sydney to the rest of Sydney."

The jointly funded project was initially estimated to cost around $7 billion and the extra funding announced on Monday is an example of how infrastructure spending will help the economy out of the COVID-19 economic slump.

Monday's announcement also reveals the location of two new stations — at Luddenham, as part of a future education and innovation precinct, and at Orchard Hills to service a new town centre.

It will also include two stations at the new airport terminal, one in the commercial heart of the Western Sydney aerotropolis and one at St Marys to link into the existing rail system.

Ms Berejiklian said the Sydney Metro – Western Sydney Airport was a critical part of the $100 billion infrastructure pipeline to boost jobs and speed recovery.

"The opportunities this mega project will provide are vital as our economy recovers from the financial impact of COVID-19," she said. "Now more than ever we need projects that provide jobs to support families and this project is a major economic stimulus in Western Sydney."

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https://twitter.com/9NewsSyd/status/1282958098286751744

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https://twitter.com/AndrewConstance/status/1304980644301336576

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https://twitter.com/AlanTudgeMP/status/1304995092164276224

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Media release

https://minister.infrastructure.gov.au/tudge/media-release/station-locations-confirmed-western-sydneys-new-metro

The Hon Alan Tudge MP
Minister for Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructure

13th September 2020

Station locations confirmed for Western Sydney's new metro

The station locations for the new Sydney Metro – Western Sydney Airport project to service Greater Western Sydney and the new Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) airport have been revealed, with the project also set to deliver a multi-billion dollar boost to the New South Wales and Australian economies.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian, Minister for Transport Andrew Constance and Minister for Western Sydney Stuart Ayres today inspected the site of the future Western Sydney Aerotropolis Station.

"The Sydney Metro – Western Sydney Airport project will support 14,000 jobs, including 250 apprentices and inject billions of dollars to the NSW and Australian economies," Ms Berejiklian said.

"Where we are standing today will become a major new transport interchange, right in the heart of the future central business district for the Western Parkland City."

Federal Minister for Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructure Alan Tudge said construction would start this year on the around $11 billion mega-project that would deliver economic support and local jobs.

"This city-shaping investment is being fast-tracked to help our economy recover from COVID-19 and deliver a major stimulus right in the heart of Western Sydney," Mr Tudge said.

"Western Sydney residents will reap the benefits of this investment well before the first train leaves the station."

Exact station locations have now also been confirmed on the 23-kilometre driverless railway line at St Marys, Orchard Hills, Luddenham and two stations at the airport.

NSW Minister for Transport and Roads Andrew Constance said the tender process has also started to deliver 10 kilometres of twin Metro railway tunnels, with the call for registrations of interest.

"Construction starts later this year on a project that will become the transport spine for the Western Parkland City," Mr Constance said.

"The new railway will link residential areas with jobs hubs, and connect travellers from the new airport with the rest of Sydney's public transport network."

New South Wales Minister for Jobs, Investment, Tourism and Western Sydney Stuart Ayres said the project will be a game changer for the region.

"This will provide the backbone for the economic and broader development of the Western Parkland City," Mr Ayres said.

Federal Member for Lindsay Melissa McIntosh said the Australian and NSW Governments are working together in preparation for the airport opening for passenger services.

"The huge investment in Western Sydney Infrastructure projects is creating an interconnected city that will enable innovation, support growth and create jobs to build an exciting future for Western Sydney," Mrs McIntosh said.

Supporting the airport and Aerotropolis is a key part of the Western Sydney City Deal – a
20-year agreement signed in March 2018 by the Commonwealth Government, NSW Government and eight Western Sydney councils.

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Homes make way for $8b Western Sydney Airport metro rail line


The rail line will run between three stops located at the international airport and Aerotropolis and St Marys station via two new stations at Luddenham and Orchard Hills. CREDIT:NSW GOVERNMENT

Twenty-eight properties along the multibillion-dollar metro rail line to Sydney's new international airport will be compulsorily acquired and another 33 are earmarked for partial purchase.

As land deals linked to the Western Sydney Airport precinct at Badgerys Creek come under scrutiny, residents in the area have been warned of tunnelling noise and vibrations before tracks are laid for the $8 billion rail project.

Major construction of the 23-kilometre Western Sydney Airport metro line is scheduled to start next year, allowing for the rail link to be operational ahead of the airport's opening in 2026.

The line will run between three stops located at the airport and Aerotropolis and St Marys station via two new stations at Luddenham and Orchard Hills.

An environmental impact statement, published on Wednesday, said 16 rural residential properties would be fully acquired, with five likely to be partially acquired. The other sites acquired and earmarked for purchase included industrial and "mixed use" properties.

Residents in St Marys, Claremont Meadows and semi-rural Orchard Hills, and in the rural areas of Luddenham and Bringelly, should expect "temporarily high" noises from concrete saws, hydraulic hammers and bulldozers.

"The use of noise intensive equipment would be planned for standard working hours where possible and respite periods provided," the documents said.

Boring machines and roadheaders will be used to excavate twin tunnels on sections of the route beneath the airport and between St Marys and Orchard Hills. The tunnels will run as shallow as 15 metres below ground.

The project will also involve clearing an area of threatened Cumberland Plain Woodland.

But the NSW government said these factors should be balanced with the "significant transport and development benefits" the project will bring to greater western Sydney.

It said the metro will have the initial capacity to move 7740 commuters an hour in each direction with up to 12 trains running per hour during peak times. That could eventually surge to 20 trains per hour.

"Trains will arrive up to every five minutes in the peak period in each direction as the initial operating capacity so customers won't need a timetable - they'll just turn up and go," Transport Minister Andrew Constance said.

Federal Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructure Minister Alan Tudge said construction of the metro line would "inject billions into the NSW economy and support 14,000 jobs".

Urban Development Institute of Australia chief executive Steve Mann said the rail plan "fails to take the opportunity to connect the 'west with the west'". He is urging the government to include more stations.

"The lack of adequate stations is going to create more congestion issues, exacerbate affordability issues and undermine the 30-minute city model," he said.

The release of the environmental statement - on public exhibition until December 2 - follows weeks of intense scrutiny on planning decisions for the Aerotropolis hub surrounding the airport.

Federal police are probing the government's $32.8 million purchase of 12 hectares of land, known as Leppington Triangle, which was valued at $3 million less than a year after it was bought from the billionaire Perich family.

And the Independent Commission Against Corruption is examining disgraced former state MP Daryl Maguire's involvement in deals near the airport that would favour racing heir and landowner Louise Raedler Waterhouse.

The airport terminal will include a public plaza, shops, restaurants and cafes, and will be connected to the local transport network by the $1.8 billion M12 motorway – construction of which is due to start in 2022.

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Homes make way for $8b Western Sydney Airport metro rail line


The rail line will run between three stops located at the international airport and Aerotropolis and St Marys station via two new stations at Luddenham and Orchard Hills. CREDIT:NSW GOVERNMENT

Twenty-eight properties along the multibillion-dollar metro rail line to Sydney's new international airport will be compulsorily acquired and another 33 are earmarked for partial purchase.

As land deals linked to the Western Sydney Airport precinct at Badgerys Creek come under scrutiny, residents in the area have been warned of tunnelling noise and vibrations before tracks are laid for the $8 billion rail project.

Major construction of the 23-kilometre Western Sydney Airport metro line is scheduled to start next year, allowing for the rail link to be operational ahead of the airport's opening in 2026.

The line will run between three stops located at the airport and Aerotropolis and St Marys station via two new stations at Luddenham and Orchard Hills.

An environmental impact statement, published on Wednesday, said 16 rural residential properties would be fully acquired, with five likely to be partially acquired. The other sites acquired and earmarked for purchase included industrial and "mixed use" properties.

Residents in St Marys, Claremont Meadows and semi-rural Orchard Hills, and in the rural areas of Luddenham and Bringelly, should expect "temporarily high" noises from concrete saws, hydraulic hammers and bulldozers.

"The use of noise intensive equipment would be planned for standard working hours where possible and respite periods provided," the documents said.

Boring machines and roadheaders will be used to excavate twin tunnels on sections of the route beneath the airport and between St Marys and Orchard Hills. The tunnels will run as shallow as 15 metres below ground.

The project will also involve clearing an area of threatened Cumberland Plain Woodland.

But the NSW government said these factors should be balanced with the "significant transport and development benefits" the project will bring to greater western Sydney.

It said the metro will have the initial capacity to move 7740 commuters an hour in each direction with up to 12 trains running per hour during peak times. That could eventually surge to 20 trains per hour.

"Trains will arrive up to every five minutes in the peak period in each direction as the initial operating capacity so customers won't need a timetable - they'll just turn up and go," Transport Minister Andrew Constance said.

Federal Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructure Minister Alan Tudge said construction of the metro line would "inject billions into the NSW economy and support 14,000 jobs".

Urban Development Institute of Australia chief executive Steve Mann said the rail plan "fails to take the opportunity to connect the 'west with the west'". He is urging the government to include more stations.

"The lack of adequate stations is going to create more congestion issues, exacerbate affordability issues and undermine the 30-minute city model," he said.

The release of the environmental statement - on public exhibition until December 2 - follows weeks of intense scrutiny on planning decisions for the Aerotropolis hub surrounding the airport.

Federal police are probing the government's $32.8 million purchase of 12 hectares of land, known as Leppington Triangle, which was valued at $3 million less than a year after it was bought from the billionaire Perich family.

And the Independent Commission Against Corruption is examining disgraced former state MP Daryl Maguire's involvement in deals near the airport that would favour racing heir and landowner Louise Raedler Waterhouse.

The airport terminal will include a public plaza, shops, restaurants and cafes, and will be connected to the local transport network by the $1.8 billion M12 motorway – construction of which is due to start in 2022.

So those grey dotted lines.... Does this mean that the line will start as a totally isolated line which will be only connected to the wider network later? I was under the impression the Tallawong-St Mary's section was being built right from the start.

EDIT: I can see by actually looking closer I missed that St Mary's is on an existing line, so it's more of a branch, not completely isolated. Still, I thought the original plan was to connect to Tallawong straight away, it makes sense to me as they can use the same depot.

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[ozbob]

Connects to the T1 line western line at St Marys.  It is 'isolated' in a sense.   It is not a fast rail link as originally imagined.

The map kind of suggests it might be connected to Tallawong one day for a a transfer-less metro journey to and from Sydney.

I suppose it does give local transport options from the western suburbs to the airport, but probably needs a few more stations.

[SurfRail]

The long term plan as I understand it is both lines will terminate at Schofields.  There's no intention of through running from Tallawong to the other side of Schofields, which is fine - they serve completely different levels of passenger demand, the Western Sydney line will likely have shorter consists (at least initially) and if they do it properly it can be done with a higher maximum speed than what the existing line is constrained to.

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Rail Express --> Airport metro rail one step closer

A strong rail connection should contribute to the long-term success of Nancy-Bird Walton Airport

BUILDING the new Metro railway line, which will service Greater Western Sydney and the new Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport, is one step closer.

Three consortia have been shortlisted to deliver the mega project's tunnelling works. They are:

Bouygues Construction Australia Pty Ltd
John Holland Gamuda Joint Venture
Acciona Construction Australia Pty Ltd

The successful tunnel builder will deliver 10 kilometres of twin Metro railway tunnels and the associated excavations of station boxes.

The station box and tunnelling contract is expected to be awarded by the end of this year, with the first of four mega tunnel boring machines expected to be in the ground by the middle of 2023.

The Australian and NSW governments are jointly delivering the 23km Metro railway and six stations between St Marys and the Western Sydney Aerotropolis, including two stations at the airport.

The project will support 14,000 jobs, including 250 apprentices.

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Cost far outweighs benefit: Sydney's $11b airport rail link slammed $

The NSW government's justification for building a rail line to Sydney's second airport has been savaged by the country's peak infrastructure body, which warns the cost of the $11 billion project will far outweigh its benefit.

In a report released on Friday, Infrastructure Australia said the cost of building the airport rail line outweighed its benefits by $1.8 billion, adding that those benefits detailed in the government's business case for the project "may be overestimated".

The scathing assessment by the independent body found the business case was based on several flawed assumptions, including forecasts for the number of people who will move to live near the airport rather than the Central Coast or Wollongong.

"There is insufficient evidence that the economic, social and environmental benefits of the project would justify its costs," the report said.

It has prompted Infrastructure Australia to not include the rail line in its list of the country's priority projects. ...

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Sydney Morning Herald --> 'Not ideal': NSW government warned rushed airport metro would lead to cost blow-out $

Government analysis of the western Sydney airport metro advised the state against trying to rush the delivery of the multi-billion dollar project in time for the airport's opening, warning it could affect the cost.

The internal document outlining potential cost and timeline concerns was tabled to NSW Parliament less than 24 hours before a scathing Infrastructure Australia report was released on Friday, which found the benefits of the project did not justify its $11 billion price tag. ...

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IA is doing its job! Hopefully, now that State Governments get caught with woeful projects (road, rail or whatever) we can look at more realistic expenditure.

Imagine what $11 billion could do for bus reforms or cycling?

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https://twitter.com/RailExpressNews/status/1419432539442221060

[timh]

https://twitter.com/RailExpressNews/status/1419432539442221060

Seems very early to be starting construction. A metro line that currently serves a totally Greenfield location? I'm assuming timeline of construction is such so that all the cut and cover will be done before the airport goes on top, and line will open same time as airport

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https://twitter.com/ozbob13/status/1461345292050075648

[Jonno]

And we wonder why our cities are congested!!! We continue to build car transport as the central model of its design!!! Wake up Australia The world has moved on!!!

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SMH --> PM rejects call from premier to help pay for airport transport links $

Plans for crucial public transport links to Sydney's new airport have been dealt another blow after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese rejected Premier Dominic Perrottet's insistence that the federal government stump up money for the $1.6 billion project.

The funding stoush has erupted after the Herald revealed that senior NSW transport officials have privately raised concerns about a lack of progress on promises for rapid bus links to Western Sydney Airport, which is due to open to passengers in four years. ...

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Tunnel boring machine (TBM) Peggy has arrived in style at the future Airport Terminal Station, marking the second...

Posted by Sydney Metro on Sunday, 3 September 2023

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https://x.com/AusGovInfra/status/1717315372179755305?s=20

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https://x.com/ChrisMinnsMP/status/1727084853399855519?s=20

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New Bus Services to Western Sydney Airport Precinct May 2024

https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/system/files/media/documents/2024/New-Bus-Services-for-Western-Sydney-Airport-Precinct_May-2024.pdf