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Digging starts in 18 months.

Do you live in the SW? Do you travel to the SW? Are you stymied by the M5?

Another impost toll? Any costings to the consumer yet?

Any use to you - or will you have moved away by the time it's finished?

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Yay something that should have been done 15 years ago. Will probably cost $20 one way, but whatever, at least they're getting somewhere. The current M5 widening is taking very long, do they have a crew of 5 doing all the work? This will take 20 years to complete and cost 9,001 billion dollars.

I would be happy to use it though, although the road will probably turn into a testing ground in 6 months time (like most Sydney roads end up).

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Don't live in the SW, don't travel there often - but what i can comment on is that this money is better spent on public transport infrastructure rather then creating more road for cars to clog up. Absolutely effing stupid. And what's worse is most likely, roads surrounding the westconnex will be suddenly 'reconfigured' so to force people to use it...just like the LCT. I absolutely hate driving down Lane Cove road from the epping section out past Lane Cove, but in order to get to the city or even North Sydney, that's the only direct way without detouring via chatswood OR going via five dock. It's absolute madness.

In that vein, I would say I hope to be out of here by the time it's done. Or sooner.

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O'Farrell Lib Gov't is now about to bid on the "Cross City Tunnel" in order to free up congestion in the CBD > Toll will be lowered (if purchased).

Makes Sense > especially after my old high school buddy (actually from my same year) Paul Forward, head of RTA at the time, signed off on its construction at a cost of more than double what it was worth.

He bragged at a Canterbury HS Reunion how it was his 'baby'; and how it was going to revolutionise city traffic. He disappeared out of the limelight after being thoroughly embarrassed.

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It was way too expensive for such a short trip.

Sick of all these private tolls, if they can't manage tax dollars then they shouldn't be built. M2 prime example - sick of contributing to the Mac Bank Christmas party fund - just for the privilege of being able to use my car, which itself is taxed heavily too. They did all that construction work that reduced the speed down to snails pace for ages and then added all those additional on ramps.

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It was way too expensive for such a short trip.

Sick of all these private tolls, if they can't manage tax dollars then they shouldn't be built. M2 prime example - sick of contributing to the Mac Bank Christmas party fund - just for the privilege of being able to use my car, which itself is taxed heavily too. They did all that construction work that reduced the speed down to snails pace for ages and then added all those additional on ramps.

it has improved the road big time tho and I heard the blokes who did the asphalt are awesome :D lol
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So they are going to spend billions of dollars to get people from one bottle neck to another? The stretch of Paramatta Road from the City West Link to the M4 makes me want to stab people sometimes, I would have though starting out there and working east would make a bit more sense?

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So they are going to spend billions of dollars to get people from one bottle neck to another? The stretch of Paramatta Road from the City West Link to the M4 makes me want to stab people sometimes, I would have though starting out there and working east would make a bit more sense?

governments normally go with the route that makes the least sense.
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