Tunnel boring machines will begin construction of the second phase of the Sydney Metro by the end of 2018, the New South Wales Government has announced.
Work on the first phase of the project, Sydney Metro Northwest, is well underway. The second stage, known as Sydney Metro City & Southwest, will extend the line from Chatswood to Sydenham and then west to Bankstown.
The route includes 15-kilometres of new tunnels between Chatswood and Sydenham.
The announcement also confirmed the locations of six new stations on the route: Crows Nest, Victoria Cross, Barangaroo, Martin Place, Pitt Street and Central.
NSW Premier Mike Baird and Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Andrew Constance said that they were also looking at potentially extending the proposed route from Bankstown to Liverpool.
Baird said: “We’re wasting no time delivering Australia’s biggest public transport project.
“Sydney Metro will change Sydney forever – it will help boost capacity of our rail network by 100,000 people every hour, servicing our growing global city for generations to come.”
A State Significant Infrastructure Application will be lodged later this week to confirm the route.
Images courtesy of NSW Government
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