Why Chris Minns Is Repairing, Not Expanding, Sydney’s Rail Network
For several weeks, the observers of NSW politics have found a change in the language used by Chris Minns on public transport. Now we know why.
Minns has always been cautious about suburban training, hoping that its government will be new green -light railway projects, argues that the government has surrendered the mammoth lines that are already under construction. An important reason why Minns does not participate in major new railway projects is that the Labor Party cannot meet themselves and that the former coalition government is against the privatization of the first stages of the Sydney metro that shaped the city.
Old and crumbling: Sydney Trains, the registration is the most “high priority defect .. What can be done?Credit: Oscar Colman
Nevertheless, the Premier offered a new and more valid excuse to avoid being connected to new new plans: the need to spend more energy and money to improve the existing dense railway system.
A new report published on Tuesday shows how difficult this task will be. Minns warned the report of Calamitous May 2025 railway failure for two days of Sydney’s heavy railway system. It wasn’t wrong.
The Sydney Trains network supports more than 1.1 million passengers journey every day. However, the report, led by transportation and infrastructure expert Kerry Schott, clearly demonstrates the 1790 -kilometer track and 1700 -kilometer fire wiring. Indeed, Schott’s review panel strikes the use of binoculars to observe whether fire wiring is “insufficient için for 2025. He doesn’t joke.
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But it’s getting worse. In the report, Sydney trains show that despite the government’s 70 million dollar railway maintenance britz, the most of them struggles with the “high priority defect” in the record. In late August, Sydney Trains accused a combination of long -term industrial action and severe weather events on an increasing number of defects that reached a record level of 4450.
Transportation Minister John Graham apologized to the passengers on Tuesday for collapse in May and said that progress was made to solve the underlying problems. The report also suffered from how the authorities react to May melting, and the worst proposed a number of potential changes in case of re -realized. Some suggestions are very clear, such as providing meaningful, real -time information about transportation applications about interruptions. Forerunner He wonders why they’re not already in place.
The government will inject 458 million dollars for four years to raise the network and focus on railway runway signals and fire cables.
With a growing city and aging infrastructure Forerunner The Minns government continues to view that the government should be able to walk and chew gum at the same time by planning new extensions and projects by increasing maintenance and reliability on the existing network. If he can remove it, voters will generously reward in March 2027 in the ballot.
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