Region. Progress on Western Express

Tenders have closed for expert engineering and design consultants to plan the delivery of Western Express, between Penrith and the Sydney CBD, and the 5.4-kilometre City Relief Line, underground between Redfern and Wynyard and Transport NSW expects to release the Preliminary Environmental Assessment into the project in mid 2011. Transport NSW has called tenders for detailed geotechnical and survey work for the Western Express. Tenders will close in mid December and the works will commence in late January, 2011.