Gillard joins Abbott in offering money for big road in Sydney’s west
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced federal funding for a motorway connecting western Sydney and inner-city Sydney as a national priority. But is investing in big road projects the answer to the transport problems of the burgeoning population of western Sydney, now at two million people and growing?
The Prime Minister Julia Gillard has now offered one-billion-dollars as a down payment to support the project, but the funding comes with conditions that the NSW Premier has already rejected. The Federal Opposition leader Tony Abbott has already promised to support the project. Meanwhile, experts in transport and infrastructure planning have questioned whether the roads project will actually address the transport frustrations faced by those living in Western Sydney.