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Matt O'Sullivan

Matt O'Sullivan

Matt O'Sullivan is transport and infrastructure editor at The Sydney Morning Herald.

All of Sydney’s 10 bus regions are operated by private companies, which are contracted by the state government.

Bus routes axed, new ones added under sweeping changes to Sydney network

The shake-up will affect bus routes from the northern beaches and north shore to the Hills, north-west and city’s south-west.

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The interchange connects the M12 motorway to the widened M7.

Major spaghetti junction to Sydney’s new airport set to open to drivers

The opening of the interchange linking the new M12 motorway to the M7 comes four months before the first passenger flights take off at Western Sydney Airport.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Firefighter Amber Murphy behind the wheel of one of the new state-of-the-art trucks at Western Sydney Airport.

‘Snozzle’ at the ready: State-of-the-art fire station set for Sydney’s new airport

Firefighters are readying the new station and gigantic trucks for the first cargo flights late next month, followed by passenger aircraft three months later.

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Wiley Park station is closed while work continues on converting the line between Sydenham and Bankstown to metro train standards.

$32m in work needed after Sydney metro opening risks disrupting commuters

Commuters face extra disruptions after the ribbon is cut on the final stage of the M1 if construction cannot be done during scheduled maintenance shutdowns.

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Jetstar will be the first airline to take off from Western Sydney Airport on October 25.

Jetstar flights lock in date for opening of Sydney’s new airport

The long-awaited launch of passenger flights to Western Sydney Airport will follow the start of cargo aircraft taking off from the new aviation hub next month.

  • Matt O'Sullivan and Chris Zappone
The section between Sydenham and Bankstown is the final part of the $30 billion M1 metro line to be opened.

Secret chart that reveals target date for Sydney metro line’s opening

The final stage of the M1 metro line cannot go live soon enough for commuters who have been catching replacement buses for the past two years.

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The first sinkhole opened above one of the tunnels at Rockdale for the M6 motorway in early March 2024.

Plan to ‘abandon’ nearly built motorway in Sydney’s south secretly explored

Confidential documents reveal abandoning the $3.2 billion underground motorway project has been canvassed in a secret scoping study and other reports.

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Waverley bus depot.

New electric buses forced into storage due to delays upgrading Sydney depots

The delays to upgrading more than a dozen depots complicates the state government’s rollout of more than 1200 electric buses within the next two years.

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Western Sydney Airport metro rail line.

Warnings that metro rail line to Sydney’s new airport is set to be delayed again

Confidential documents reveal the project is running late on a vast range of work, from switching on power at stations to receiving new European-built trains.

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Excavator GIF

‘Potentially catastrophic’: Leaked videos reveal severity of Snowy project’s blunders

An out-of-control excavator and a dump truck hanging off a cliff reveal safety risks plaguing the mega-project, which faces further cost blowouts and years of delays.

  • Matt O'Sullivan and Mike Foley