The NSW Government has announced it will undertake a blitz worth more than $100 million to build key facilities and undertake much-needed upgrade works at stations and interchanges.
The blitz signals the start of a new initiative to deliver accessible, modern, secure and integrated transport infrastructure where it is needed most.
The new Transport Access Program would ‘lead to a better experience for public transport customers across the State by ensuring infrastructure improvements were delivered in a coordinated and integrated way’.
Transport for NSW has now taken over the planning and organisation of improvements which were previously delivered under six separate programs by different agencies, meaning the community can now have confidence that works will be delivered where and when they are needed most.
The first projects to be undertaken as part of the program would see improvements at more than 35 locations over the coming months.
This includes more than $82 million of works on a brand new station at Flinders in the Illawarra, a major upgrade at Cardiff Station in the Hunter, upgraded interchanges at Fairfield and Sutherland, and an upgraded ferry wharf at Balmain.
