NSW Government will not rule out Metro City and Southwest project's $4 billion price hike
ABCThe NSW Government has refused to say whether the Metro train line through the city to the south-west is $4 billion over budget. Key points: The project was originally predicted to cost between $11.5 and $12.5 billion but may blow out to $16.8 billion Premier Gladys Berejiklian said she was "not in the mood" for questions on the Metro budget today The Metro City and Southwest project will link the completed North West Metro to the City and then on to Bankstown Tunnelling is currently underway from the end of the Metro North West at Chatswood for the new Metro through Crows Nest, Barangaroo, Martin Place and Waterloo and then on to Bankstown. Any major blow-out in its cost of the Metro will have serious ramifications for the NSW Government's ambitious $93 billion infrastructure program. "The NSW Government is fully committed to delivering Sydney Metro City and Southwest, Metro West and Metro Greater West," he said in a statement.
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