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With $8 billion already gone, Minns faces a huge test of his premiership
Premier Chris Minns faces one of the biggest tests of his premiership, after casting huge doubts on the future of Australia’s largest public transport project.
- by Matt O'Sullivan and Michael Koziol
Opinion
Opinion
Metro West will spawn homes for thousands - and that’s why we can afford it
Don’t quibble over the budget. Homes and centres built around the new metro stations, and developer contributions, can help fund it.
- by Christopher Brown
‘Build it and they will come’: Metro West must proceed regardless of cost blowouts
Metro costs have ballooned, but these costs will be absorbed over centuries, with a long future of extensive use.
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State Parliament
Metro decision risks state’s reputation, business leaders warn
Business leaders warn NSW government’s Metro West cancellation risks the state’s reputation as “reliable economy”.
- by Max Maddison and Michael McGowan
Editorial
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Premier, stop playing games with western Sydney residents on Metro
Letting doubt fester about the future of Metro West for months is cruel and unnecessary.
- The Herald's View
Cost of cancelling Metro West would include billions in compensation
Experts have also warned that any delay to completing the underground rail line between Sydney’s CBD and Parramatta will also increase the project’s cost.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
If Sydney’s Metro West needs more stations, where would they go?
Planning documents showing why certain stations were rejected from the Metro West line may provide clues to how the government plans to “salvage” the project.
- by Michael Koziol
Premier must show vision and give Metro West the green light
The Metro development will never be more doable than it is today – it will only get harder and more expensive.
Opinion
Public transport
Minns’ Metro West charade is a betrayal of Labor’s reclaimed heartland
The premier says the rail line’s cost could blow out to $25 billion - and that puts it in doubt. And yet Labor was committed to the line when the Herald was reporting it could climb to $27 billion.
- by Alexandra Smith
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State Parliament
‘We need the Metro’: Labor’s star recruit insists $25 billion rail line must go ahead
Donna Davis, the former Parramatta Lord Mayor whose win in the state seat helped Labor grab power after 12 years in opposition, insists Metro West must go ahead.
- by Michael McGowan and Max Maddison