Sydney, Australia seeing road development projects continue

Massive spending in a major road project will boost transport in Australia’s busy city of Sydney, helping cut chronic congestion. Building and improving the road links to connect with the new WestConnex motorway project is expected to cost in the order of US$ 21.97 billion in all. The construction of the WestConnex motorway is itself expected to cost some $12.7 billion. Meanwhile building the exit section at St Peters will itself cost in the order of $757 million.
April 18, 2017 Read time: 1 min
Massive spending in a major road project will boost transport in Australia’s busy city of Sydney, helping cut chronic congestion. Building and improving the road links to connect with the new WestConnex motorway project is expected to cost in the order of US$ 21.97 billion in all. The construction of the WestConnex motorway is itself expected to cost some $12.7 billion. Meanwhile building the exit section at St Peters will itself cost in the order of $757 million.
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