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‘It’s the uncertainty’: Anxious wait for flight paths for Sydney’s new airport
The flight paths for the curfew-free Western Sydney Airport will determine whether the peace is shattered for people who live nearby.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
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Ferry fail as gangplank collapse sends Riverview boys into river
Two schoolchildren fell when the ferry dropping them at Riverview College Wharf floated away from the pontoon, causing the gangplank to collapse into the water.
- by Jordan Baker
Why Sydney will end up with three incompatible metro train lines
Sydney’s new driverless metro trains and stations will have key differences that mean the three lines will have trains that cannot be switched between them.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
Central Station’s grand underground cavern to open to Sydney commuters
A blaze that destroyed a building near Sydney’s Central Station has failed to derail the 4am opening on Monday of a massive new concourse.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
Garden Island ‘best site’ for cruise terminal after Yarra Bay scuttled
A decision to rule out constructing a cruise-ship terminal at Yarra Bay puts the naval base at Garden Island back on the agenda as a potential site.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
The reasons Sydney’s rail network is set to worsen in the future
An interim review into repeated failures across Sydney’s rail network lays much of the blame on a major shakeup of the rail timetable six years ago.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
Free electric ferry ‘top priority’ for Sydney’s western harbour
A corporate partnership established by government to improve the foreshore is working on a new ferry that would transform travel around Barangaroo, Pyrmont and Blackwattle Bay.
- by Michael Koziol
Controversial Sydney cycleway to stay for extra three years due to Oxford Street delays
The City of Sydney has voted to keep a pop-up cycleway in the eastern suburbs until 2026 amid uncertainty about a permanent bike path down Oxford Street.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
Sydney’s NIMBY councils need more power, not less, on housing, planning: expert
Greg Clark, a London-based urban planning expert visiting Australia this week, said public land was the “secret weapon” in the housing supply challenge.
- by Michael Koziol
Teenage victim identified after fatal tram accident in Sydney’s CBD
Kyra Dulguime, 16, died after becoming trapped under a Sydney light rail carriage.
- by Sarah Keoghan and Olivia Ireland