New South Wales Premier Mike Baird and Minister for Transport Gladys Berejiklian announced the North West Rail Link is running ahead of schedule and USD 300 million under budget, as the landmark project reached another major tunnelling milestone.
“It was only in September that we launched this first massive machine at Bella Vista – in that time it has tunnelled 2.1 kilometres to reach today’s historic breakthrough at Norwest,” Baird said.
“All four 900 tonne machines are now in the ground digging Australia’s longest railway tunnels …we are wasting no time delivering this world class infrastructure project and doing it ahead of schedule and under budget,” Berejiklian said.
North West Rail Link project will be launched in the first half of 2019. The project includes eight new railway stations, 4,000 commuter car parking spaces and a train every four minutes in the peak, or 15 trains an hour.
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