Jacob Saulwick is City Editor at The Sydney Morning Herald.
A rapid bus system along Victoria Road and an extension of Sydney's eastern suburbs light rail line from Kensington to Malabar are, along with a tram down Parramatta Road, inner Sydney options recently analysed by Transport for NSW.
Detailed plans for a light rail line along Parramatta Road linking Sydney's central business district to Burwood were developed by the state's transport agency - but were abandoned several months ago.
New roads can be funded using taxes that could otherwise be spent on schools or hospitals. Or they can be funded using tolls.
Proposed changes to state planning laws could make it easier for mining proponents and developers to skirt community concerns, critics say.
Almost three years ago, members of a NSW parliamentary committee spent a morning in Balmain to investigate complaints about the noise and fumes emerging from cruise ships berthed at the relatively new cruise terminal at White Bay.
A new approach to ensuring that Sydney's rapid housing growth is matched by transport, schools and other infrastructure will be rolled out by Lucy Turnbull's Greater Sydney Commission.
The process of constructing a tram line down Sydney's oldest street and to the eastern suburbs was always going to present unexpected challenges.
One of the strongest supporters of council mergers is preparing to apply for partial reversal of its own amalgamation.
The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain should be compensated for land lost to an expanded Art Gallery of NSW, the Gardens' Trust says.
A simple accounting change will deliver the state government an unpublicised budget boost of $1.5 billion by taking more money out of Sydney Water and its regional counterparts, but one expert says is "irresponsible".
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