Cabinet leak: Sydney to Parramatta in 15 minutes
A final decision on the route for the Sydney Metro West rail link is shaping up to be a contest between a 15 minute rapid express service and a 25-minute service that would open 12 new stations.
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Peter Martin
Peter Martin is the economics editor for The Age, based at Parliament House
Leaked government report: Rare wetlands at risk in plans for F6 Extension
The preferred alignment of the proposed F6 Extension takes in sites with some of the "richest concentrations of plant species in temperate Australia".
Tolls revealed: $10 for a one-way trip on motorway extension
The proposed F6 Extension toll road would charge around $10 for each one-way journey between Sydney and Wollongong.
$8 tolls each way for new road tunnels to Sydney's north
Motorists will pay tolls in both directions on the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Harbour Tunnel under proposals to help cover the $14 billion cost of a 14-kilometre tunnel linking the northern beaches to the city's inner west.
Revealed: The $14 billion Beaches Link price tag
The proposed 14-kilometre tollway between Rozelle and Allambie Heights will cost almost as much as the 33-kilometre WestConnex project.
Schools, parks, homes in frame as sites for Beaches Link smokestacks revealed
Three schools are within 200 metres of the sites chosen for smokestacks to release fumes from the proposed Western Harbour Tunnel and Beaches Link tunnels.
Cabinet told benefits from a Wollongong-to-Sydney rail upgrade would exceed costs
Work needed to deliver passengers from Wollongong to Central in 66 minutes produces benefits up to twice the cost according to a previously unreleased government report.
More than Westconnex: F6 Extension to cost $18 billion
The planned toll road linking Sydney and Wollongong has been costed at an extraordinary $18 billion – almost $12 billion more than the rail alternative that would cut the journey to about one hour.
'They have to have alternatives': Census highlights rent, not mortgage, stress
The 2016 census spotlights the growing proportion of people in Australia for whom renting is their normal relationship to the housing market.
Six new exhaust stacks for Sydney's south for proposed F6 Extension
Vacant land next to Port Hacking High School is among the locations chosen for smokestacks to release exhaust fumes from the proposed F6 Extension.
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