Today Chris Minns and Jo Haylen have announced that Labor are \u201crescuing\u201d Sydney Metro City & Southwest from themselves, reluctantly deciding to complete the Liberals\u2019 and Nationals\u2019 landmark infrastructure project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leader of the Opposition Mark Speakman said the Opposition welcomed the Government\u2019s decision at last to honour their election commitment, to accept the visionary benefits of the project for commuters and to put commuters ahead of union demands to cancel the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis Labor Government has made a big song and dance out of honouring an election commitment and delivering an infrastructure project that was planned, funded and underway by the previous government \u2013 it shows how unusual it is for Labor to deliver any infrastructure project,\u201d Mr Speakman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shadow Minister for Transport and Roads Natalie Ward declared today\u2019s announcement a stunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhile we welcome today\u2019s confirmation of the Sydney Metro Southwest, there is still a dark cloud hanging over the future of Sydney Metro West, with questions yet to be answered that Labor is considering delaying the project,\u201d Ms Ward said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Government has finally released the Interim Report Summary of their Sydney Metro Independent Review, which the Jo Haylen received on 23 June, which raises the option of delaying Sydney Metro West to complete Sydney Metro City & Southwest[1]<\/sup><\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n That the NSW Government should note that the City & Southwest project is likely to require an increase to the total cost envelope of around $1.1 billion. It is likely that this can be at least partly supported from a cashflow perspective within the existing total Sydney Metro capital funding provision of the Forward Estimates but may require deferring some non-contracted Sydney Metro West packages by up to 12 months<\/u>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chris Minns and Jo Haylen must come clean today on their plans for Sydney Metro West \u2013 and tell the people of Western Sydney that their project will be delayed \u2013 locals in Parramatta through to Drummoyne deserve that at the very least.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Opposition acknowledged the disruptions commuters will experience during the 12 month conversion, but refuted Labor\u2019s claims that this was news to locals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs far back as 2016 we knew that this project would require months of disruption, with the former government flagging at least 7 months of train replacements[2]<\/sup><\/a>,\u201d Mr Speakman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr Speakman also warned that Labor looked poise to introduce new taxes, in addition to delaying the Sydney Metro West to fund the completion Metro City & Southwest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Government has today said that the additional funds required to complete this project will be allocated from existing transport budgets \u2013 yet at the same time are flagging new taxes on Western Sydney development,\u201d Mr Speakman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis Government went to the election promising no new taxes, but now the Treasurer is flagging a new tax on development.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Government was very clear before the election \u2013 they would deliver Sydney Metro West and Southwest, and no new taxes \u2013 Chris Minns must keep his word and honour this commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today Chris Minns and Jo Haylen have announced that Labor are \u201crescuing\u201d Sydney Metro City & Southwest from themselves, reluctantly deciding to complete the Liberals\u2019 and Nationals\u2019 landmark infrastructure project. Leader of the Opposition Mark Speakman said the Opposition welcomed the Government\u2019s decision at last to honour their election commitment, to accept the visionary benefits … Continue reading “Labor \u201crescue\u201d Sydney Metro Southwest from themselves – future of Sydney Metro West remains unknown”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22073,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22072\/revisions\/22073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}