The City Desk reports on Sydney Metro, heavy rail, light rail, ferries, road tunnels and precinct rezonings across Greater Sydney.
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Sydney Metro City Southwest will begin driverless train trial runs in late 2026, with passenger services expected to launch from Chatswood to Bankstown via Central in 2027, connecting the Inner West to the metro network.
The NSW Government has released detailed designs for the Sydney Metro West Bays Precinct station, showing a new ferry interchange, 200-metre-long platforms, and direct connections to the White Bay Power Station redevelopment.
The NSW Department of Planning has approved a 51-storey and a 58-storey commercial tower above the future Sydney Metro West Hunter Street station, marking the largest over-station development in the Sydney CBD.
The Riverside Link Consortium has released detailed designs for the Parramatta Metro station box, showing how a 470-home community, student accommodation and commercial towers will sit above the underground station.
Tunnel boring machines finish the 24-kilometre drive between Westmead and the Sydney CBD, clearing the way for track laying and station fit-out on the $27 billion metro line.
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The RBA holds the cash rate at 4.35% until its September 29 decision, with economists divided on whether the hiking cycle has ended or one more increase is coming before cuts begin.
Bulk excavation and concreting near completion at Hunter Street East and West as Sydney Metro West moves to site demobilisation in the CBD, with 24/7 tunnel support continuing through September.
The International Convention Centre Sydney will install 4,500 solar panels across its Darling Harbour rooftops, generating 2.6 GWh annually and cutting emissions by 2,000 tonnes as power costs hit $1.8 million a year.
A $880 million Gamuda-MTR contract will deliver 470 homes, 500 student beds, a 43-storey build-to-rent tower and a 29-storey commercial tower directly above Parramatta Metro station as tunnelling completes.
A Sydney Water proposal to discharge 70 million litres of treated wastewater daily into Parramatta River from a new Camellia-Rosehill plant puts the state's swimmable river goal in conflict with population growth pressures.
Three international consortiums will spend two years designing 35km of twin tunnels between Berowra and Ourimbah on the $90 billion Sydney to Newcastle high-speed rail line, with a decision due by mid-2028.