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Matt O'Sullivan

Matt O'Sullivan

Matt O'Sullivan is transport and infrastructure editor at The Sydney Morning Herald.

The section of the Great Western Highway which is threatening to collapse.

‘Complicated rebuild’ points to long closure of key Blue Mountains highway

A $50 million emergency injection into detour routes over the Blue Mountains also suggests the closure of the critical highway will be long-lasting.

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The Waratah passenger train involved in the near-miss near Blacktown station on April 21, 2024.

Sydney passenger train sped at four times limit through known trouble spot

The driver was thrown from his seat in the over-speed incident on a section of track in Sydney.

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Western Sydney Airport’s 3.7-kilometre runway can handle aircraft as large as an A380 superjumbo.

Singapore Airlines locks in flights to Sydney’s new airport despite fuel crisis

Tickets go on sale on Wednesday for Singapore Airlines’ first flights to Western Sydney Airport in November, while other carriers could be landing weeks earlier.

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An upgrade to the western section of Mona Vale Road in northern Sydney could now start by the middle of next year.

Fixes finally in sight for road choke points on Sydney’s northern beaches

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.

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The new ferry wharf at La Perouse.

These $78m Sydney wharves opened without ferries. Now there’s a second chance

More than a year after these piers opened at four times the original forecast cost, plans for ferry services between them in Botany Bay remain unfulfilled.

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Western Sydney Airport metro rail line.

Length of delay to Sydney’s new airport metro line hinges on ‘big negotiation’

The transport minister has told Sydney Metro to protect taxpayers then “open the line when they can”.

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The first sinkhole opened above one of the tunnels at Rockdale for the M6 motorway in early March 2024.

This $3.1b Sydney road has been delayed by years. Now there’s an ultimatum

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.

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M12 motorway.

New $2 billion motorway to Sydney’s second international airport opening

The ribbon-cutting comes almost eight months before the first passenger flights are due to take off from Western Sydney Airport.

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Firefighters atop the roof of the smoking tram at the Chalmers Street stop near Central Station on Thursday morning.

Tram fire forces services to stop on Sydney light rail lines for hours

The small fire on the tram’s roof forced services to be suspended for several hours on Thursday as the private operator assessed the risk to its fleet.

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Workers demonstrate a new hand-held laser device used to check over-head wiring on Sydney’s passenger train network.

Binoculars out, lasers in: How Sydney Trains plans to stop the meltdowns

The roll-out of the new devices will help crews detect overhead thin-wire spots like the one which crippled the city’s passenger trains for days last May.

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