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Subject: THE State Government's bus transitways project has blown out by a further $159 million, with spending on the Liverpool-to-Parramatta route exceeding its expected total months ahead of its completion date. Author: That transitway, originally due to cost $198 million, was the first in a planned network of bus-only roads designed to revolutionise public transport in Western Sydney. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 5/07/03 4:52:13pm http://www.parramattasun.com.au/read.asp?article=002n3022669.txt&s=news Transit project blow out THE State Government's bus transitways project has blown out by a further $159 million, with spending on the Liverpool-to-Parramatta route exceeding its expected total months ahead of its completion date. That transitway, originally due to cost $198 million, was the first in a planned network of bus-only roads designed to revolutionise public transport in Western Sydney. Its cost had already risen by $60 million, to $258 million, in February, when services started ahead of the planned completion date in December. Budget papers reveal it will now cost $315 million. A spokeswoman for the Roads Minister, Carl Scully, said the new figures took into account inflation of about 3 per cent a year. She said the Liverpool-to-Parramatta transitway had also become more expensive because of design changes, additional drainage structures, more properties having to be acquired and the building of a new service road. Comment on this story Back [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]