The toll-free M12 Motorway has passed a major construction milestone, with over a third of construction completed and groundwork underway on 14 of 17 bridges across the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The M12, which was recommended as a high priority project by Infrastructure Australia, forms part of a wider Western Sydney roads upgrade as the NSW Government gets on with the job of delivering the critical roads the community needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Co-funded by the Australian and NSW Governments, the motorway will link the new Western Sydney International Airport at Badgerys Creek to the wider Sydney motorway network, Elizabeth Drive and the Northern Road and open up a key future jobs zone for Sydney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The next stage of work will focus on completing the majority of earthworks and pouring 52,000 tonnes of concrete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Around 2000 locals from Liverpool and Penrith and 526 young people (under 25), are employed on the delivery of this project, many of who will have opportunities to keep working in the area as upgrades like Elizabeth Drive get underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The budget has prioritised new spending on vital arterial roads across Western Sydney, with a wider focus than the mega infrastructure projects and toll roads of the former government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Minns Labor Government is committed to infrastructure investment, with $29.1 billion to be spent over the coming 4 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Overall, the NSW Government will invest $2.4 billion in Western Sydney as a part of the Connecting Sydney Roads program to accommodate population and employment growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Almost $430 million is earmarked to be spent in 2023\u201324 alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Projects funded across Western Sydney will help ease traffic flow and improve journey times including to and from work, or the school run by fixing our local roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Metropolitan Roads projects by area:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Western Sydney Airport precinct<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n South-West Sydney<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Western Sydney (Penrith and surrounds)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n North-West Sydney<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n NSW Minister for Roads John Graham said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “The 2023\u201324 NSW Budget has delivered on our commitments to Western Sydney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are working on building and upgrading the roads now before the next phase of growth in this area and ahead of the first flights touching down at Western Sydney Airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe M12 is an important part of the infrastructure strategy to ensure Western Sydney International has effective transport links from day one, so progress on bridge building is a very positive project milestone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis project is creating more jobs in Western Sydney for workers in Western Sydney west and will help drive economic opportunities across this region.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Member for Leppington Nathan Hagarty said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe NSW Government has committed to delivering for Western Sydney with the infrastructure investment in the 2023\u201324 NSW Budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBy committing to upgrades at Elizabeth Drive, Spring Farm Parkway and Fifteenth Avenue, the NSW Government is going to deliver a real benefit to the community in Leppington that will improve travel time and allow people to get to work, school and through the day in a much more efficient manner.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Member for Penrith Karen McKeown said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWestern Sydney is our city\u2019s population basket with over 2.5 million people living here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s critical that we have the investment in our roads to improve access, liveability for our community in Penrith. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe works on the Northern Road and Elizabeth Drive and will improve access for motorists and public transport users alike in our community.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The toll-free M12 Motorway has passed a major construction milestone, with over a third of construction completed and groundwork underway on 14 of 17 bridges across the project. The M12, which was recommended as a high priority project by Infrastructure Australia, forms part of a wider Western Sydney roads upgrade as the NSW Government gets … Continue reading “M12 hits construction milestone as Western Sydney roads become budget spend focus”<\/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-23158","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\/23158","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=23158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23159,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23158\/revisions\/23159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}