BUILDING THE NATION

Projects in the pipeline DARWIN BRISBANE

Upgrade to road linking Legacy Way GoldLinQ
Darwin to Palmerston $1.5bn toll tunnel to open next year $1.6bn light rail system for the Gold Coast,
PERTH $103m BaT to open this year
Gateway WA $5bn bus and train tunnel beneath Kingsford Smith Drive Upgrade
$1bn road project Brisbane River, contingent on asset sales $800m road-widening project along the
around Perth Airport and industrial Brisbane River, still in planning stages
hubs, completion due 2016 Darwin Moreton Bay Rail Link
Perth City Link $1.15bn railway line with six new stations
$764m railway line connecting to Redcliffe, to open by 2017
Perth CBD with Northbridge,
to open this year
Perth Freight Link SYDNEY
$1.6bn freight connection Second Sydney airport
to Fremantle Port, with Federal government has approved
toll for heavy vehicles Badgerys Creek as the site costs and
Butler rail extension completion date unknown
$221m to open late Western Sydney roads
this year $3.5bn to upgrade roads around the
new airport
Brisbane WestConnex
$11.5bn underground motorway from
Strathfield to Ashfield, connecting M4, M5
and Sydney Airport, for completion 2023
North West rail link
Perth At $8.3bn Australias largest passenger rail
Sydney project 23km twin track, including 15km
ADELAIDE
tunnel, to open in 2019
North-South Corridor Canberra
South West link
Including $896m South
Road upgrade, T2T; Adelaide A $2bn, 11.4km rail line to open next year
CBD and South East Light Rail project
$620m Darlington
A $1.6bn, 12km project to remove buses
upgrade Melbourne from CBD streets, to open 2020
Gawler line
NorthConnex
electrification from MELBOURNE
$3bn, 9km tunnel link between M1 and
Adelaide to Dry Creek Melbourne Rail Link $8bn-$11.5bn HOBART Hobart M2 freeways
$152m to open 2016 East West Link, $20bn for stages 10-year upgrade of
Tonsley Park Public one and two Midland Highway $400m CANBERRA Projects contingent on electricity network
Transport project Cranbourne-Pakenham Rail Extension to Hobart Capital Metro part-sale
$63m railway, busway Corridor project $2bn-$2.5bn airport runway $38m light-rail $650m Sydney Rapid Transit line
and road upgrade to Long-term development of the 4-year upgrade to rail Feasibility study Northern beaches link tunnel to
finish 2016 upgrade Port of Hastings infrastructure $100m underway bypass the Spit Bridge
Funding: Federal/state/local government/private Source: staff reporters