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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.

  • Matt O'Sullivan

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Cannabis plants at a Brisbane facility.

‘It will normalise impaired driving’: Trauma surgeons condemn Labor’s cannabis changes

The Minns government’s proposed changes to drug driving laws have been slammed by a group of experts who say the legal threshold is not backed by medical evidence.

  • Michael McGowan
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
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.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
The driver sits against the edge of the fountain as police test for alcohol.

Delivery driver takes wrong turn, lands in Hyde Park fountain

The 21-year-old driver was discovered by police eating the McDonald’s meal he originally intended to deliver.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo
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.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
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The closed section of the Great Western Highway, which has serious cracking and ground movement.

Motorists face wait to find out fix for Great Western Highway

Residents near the closed section of the critical road link over the Blue Mountains say they feel like they have been “bypassed and dropped in a black hole”.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
The Western Sydney Tunnel project.

Launch date looms for mega tunnelling machines’ descent under Sydney Harbour

Their 1.5-kilometre deep-dive journey relies heavily on what is described as the lungs of the multibillion-dollar project.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
The first sinkhole opened above one of the tunnels at Rockdale for the M6 motorway in early March 2024.

Latest twist in sinkhole dispute risks further delays to new Sydney motorway

The dispute between contractors and the government over the underground motorway in the city’s south puts the 2028 opening date in jeopardy.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
The Warringah Freeway is used by up to 250,000 vehicles a day.

All the permanent changes coming to one of Sydney’s busiest motorways

The major traffic shake-up on the Warringah Freeway starting this Saturday will impact more than 250,000 motorists.

  • Cindy Yin