A long-discussed tunnel underneath the Blue Mountains connecting Sydney with western New South Wales has been deemed too long and too expensive.A lengthy tunnel between Penrith and Lithgow is deemed "prohibitively expensive"Paul Toole, the Minister for Regional Transport and Roads, said tunnelling through the entire Blue Mountains was not an option.
Two separate tunnels as part of the Great Western Highway duplication project would be a better investment, he said. "A tunnel from Penrith to Lithgow would be three times longer than the longest road tunnel currently in the world. "Building and operating a tunnel of this length, either as a motorway or a rolling highway, would be prohibitively expensive."The state government planned to spend $2.5 billion on the Great Western Highway, including construction of a tunnel bypass of Blackheath and a four-kilometre tunnel to replace the convict-built bridge at Victoria Pass.
The multi-billion-dollar plan would bypass the heritage-listed structure with a dual-carriageway tunnel underneath Mount Victoria.Victoria Pass was built by convicts in 1832 and has since been the main connection between Sydney and the central west."We know there is heavy congestion on a Sunday evening, school holiday periods and after long weekends," Mr Toole said.
Anybody know how much soil would have had to be removed and wonder where would that be dumped.
Was the monorail guy too busy to make a stop in Sydney?
More of a Shelbyville idea...
Well it is if you've got a conservative Government who deem it more important to lower taxes, provide their donors with extravagant tax payer concessions that stifles future public infrastructure, providing no benefit to the economy and substandard access for the wider community.
Where is Elon Musk when you need him!
Damn Could have named it Moria
Ruled out how? Where's the detailed analysis? The article contains only lines from a Nationals MP.
it's gonna take 50 years when it's ready to use
Stop catering for Sydney all the time... what about rural areas
Why not do it? Probably cheaper than one of submarines which always have technical faults so cost twice as much. Let's have the world's longest tunnel and open up the west. Get population out of Sydney basin and build an international airport. Forward planning . Simple.
Use slave Labor from China, then it will be cheap
I get the cost, but the railway over there is slow and runs twice a day. If you could knock serious time off the trip to Bathurst, Orange and Dubbo you could see a much better population spread in NSW. Much easier to develop if Sydney isn't 7 hours away in bad traffic.
Imagine if you could build a fully electrified transport route with twelve tunnels beneath the Blue Mountains for a total cost of $0 billion.
How defeatist 🙁👎
Didnt elonmusk offer to do this using boringcompany too hard for the government but private companies aren't scared of a challenge.
Hughiehogan That PaulTooleMP is even thinking about such a road tunnel project shows in which fantasy world he is living. NSW regional railway clock stopped at midnight but Hunter coal trains are rolling
No even the world's longest. Easily beaten by Gotthard Base Tunnel (57km).
If the twin cities of Bathurst-Orange had a population of 2 million I think it might stack up. Apparently it's less then that.
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