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Jacob Saulwick

Jacob Saulwick is City Editor at The Sydney Morning Herald.

Jamie Briggs will be the Minister for Cities and the Built Environment.

What will the Minister for Cities do for Sydney?

The plaudits are piling in from planners and public transport advocates for Australia's first Minister for Cities. But what difference will the PM's enthusiasm for everything urban actually make? 

In train: an artist's impression of the railway station to be built at Barangaroo.

Fast track for transport and road projects

Sydney's new metro train line, upgrades for the existing Western train line, and new bus lanes and motorway tunnels are projects that will be accelerated through an early down-payment from the privatisation of electricity assets.