{"id":68419,"date":"2024-06-19T09:30:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T23:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/?p=116621"},"modified":"2024-06-19T09:30:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T23:30:50","slug":"nsw-government-commits-to-updating-fleet-in-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=68419","title":{"rendered":"NSW Government commits to updating fleet in budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_0616-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\"><figcaption>Image\/Mark Sotheran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The 2024-25 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transport.nsw.gov.au\/\">NSW Budget<\/a> is investing $22.09 billion to build and improve transport services. <\/strong><span id=\"more-116621\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In Western Sydney, $2.1 billion is being provisioned for Parramatta Light Rail Stage 2 construction, to accelerate the delivery of better-connected communities in Western Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>This will connect the growing communities in Western Sydney along the 12 kilometre alignment between Ermington, Melrose Park, Parramatta and Olympic Park, and includes;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>14 new stops between at Camellia and Carter Street, Olympic Park<\/li>\n<li>Dedicated 8.5km active transport corridor<\/li>\n<li>New river crossings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first phase of delivery is the construction of a new 320-metre public and active transport bridge over Parramatta River between Wentworth Point and Melrose Park.<\/p>\n<p>The iconic NSW made Tangara trains will also receive critical upgrades, while the NSW Government forges ahead with a Future Fleet Program to return domestic manufacturing to NSW and build the next generation of Tangaras.<\/p>\n<p>$447 million will keep the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/funding-puts-wheels-in-motion-for-local-train-manufacturing\/\">current Tangara fleet<\/a> on the tracks for approximately 12 more years to ensure passengers have safe and reliable services while the new fleet is built.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s 55 Tangaras make up a quarter of the Sydney Trains fleet. As they age, they will continue to face major reliability issues, as they are the highest contributor to maintenance faults on the rail network.<\/p>\n<p>Without life extension works, an estimated five Tangaras per year are at risk of breaking down and being pulled from service, greatly impacting commuters.<\/p>\n<p>An additional $17.5 million will fund the Future Fleet Program, developing a Strategic Business Case to build the next generation Tangara fleet in NSW.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024-25 Budget also commits $75.2 million to the continued reliability, resilience, and future of the rail network across NSW.<\/p>\n<p>Funding focuses on the key areas of procurement, safety and the workforce, this includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new digital train radio system<\/li>\n<li>The Illawarra Rail Resilience Plan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>$5.5 billion has been allocated to the Sydney Metro-Western Sydney Airport project delivering six new stations to service the future Western Sydney International Airport and the Western Sydney Aerotropolis.<\/p>\n<p>$13.4 billion is committed to the delivery of Australia\u2019s biggest transport project, Sydney Metro West, which will support more housing and double the rail capacity between Parramatta and Sydney CBD.<\/p>\n<p>This is part of the NSW Government\u2019s plan to build better communities for NSW. To ensure infrastructure is built alongside housing to produce better and well-serviced communities.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/116621-2\/\">NSW Government commits to updating fleet in budget<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/\">Rail Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_0616-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Image\/Mark Sotheran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 2024-25 NSW Budget is investing $22.09 billion to build and improve transport services. In Western Sydney, $2.1 billion is \u2026 <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/116621-2\/\">NSW Government commits to updating fleet in budget<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/\">Rail Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,2251,163,180,3576],"tags":[10376],"class_list":["post-68419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-light-rail","category-nsw","category-rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand","category-rolling-stock","category-rollingstock-manufacturing","tag-rail-express"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68420,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68419\/revisions\/68420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}