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Matt O'Sullivan

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Transport and infrastructure editor for The Sydney Morning Herald @smh [email protected] Telegram: Mattonews

Joined March 2011
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Secret report reveals staggering cost of metro extensions in Sydney’s east and west. The highly sensitive details are contained in a final review of the city's metro rail projects which has been kept secret until now. smh.com.au/national/nsw/secr…
Secret report reveals multibillion-dollar cost of metro extensions in Sydney’s east and west

Secret report reveals multibillion-dollar cost of metro extensions in Sydney’s east and west

The highly sensitive details are contained in a 76-page report which has been kept secret until now.

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How near impossible plan for mega metro line under Sydney Harbour became reality smh.com.au/national/nsw/how-…
How near impossible plan for mega-metro line under Sydney Harbour became reality

How near impossible plan for mega-metro line under Sydney Harbour became reality

Decades in the making, a mega rail line under central Sydney and the harbour will finally open on Monday. It has been a long and rocky journey to get to this day.

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It has been confirmed that Sydney’s mega-metro rail line will finally open to passengers on Monday smh.com.au/national/nsw/all-…
All aboard: Sydney’s mega-metro rail line cleared for opening on Monday

All aboard: Sydney’s mega-metro rail line cleared for opening on Monday

After a false start early this month, the $21 billion rail line under the harbour is about to open to passengers after receiving regulator approval.

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All aboard: Sydney’s mega metro rail line cleared for opening smh.com.au/national/nsw/all-…
All aboard: Sydney’s mega-metro rail line cleared for opening on Monday

All aboard: Sydney’s mega-metro rail line cleared for opening on Monday

After a false start early this month, the $21 billion rail line under the harbour is about to open to passengers after receiving regulator approval.

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The moment Sydney’s ‘Metro Man’ feared the worst for new harbour rail tunnels smh.com.au/national/nsw/the-…
The moment Sydney’s ‘Metro Man’ feared the worst for new harbour rail tunnels

The moment Sydney’s ‘Metro Man’ feared the worst for new harbour rail tunnels

The man regarded as the architect of Sydney’s new driverless metro rail network recalls the day he got a phone call that instantly caused him alarm.

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Revealed: The confidential warning days after Sydney metro line’s opening was announced smh.com.au/national/nsw/reve…
Revealed: The confidential warning days after Sydney metro line’s opening was announced

Revealed: The confidential warning days after Sydney metro line’s opening was announced

Serious concerns about opening the line on August 4 were raised by senior officials just days after the government revealed the planned date, documents show.

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Don’t torch journalism

Journalists at Nine Publishing (The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian Financial Review, Brisbane Times and WAtoday) are being asked to do more for less. They are taking a stand for...

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My colleagues and I are striking because Nine won’t offer us fair wages. Meanwhile the CEO is living his best life at the Olympics and refuses to answer questions about the terrible optics of this
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‘Absolute failure’: Sydney's private metro train operator slammed for emergency disarray smh.com.au/national/nsw/abso…
‘Absolute failure’: Sydney metro operator slammed for emergency disarray

‘Absolute failure’: Sydney metro operator slammed for emergency disarray

The litany of failures during a system-wide outage included “zero appreciation” by station staff of the extreme dangers to life from high-voltage power.

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Pencil in Sunday, August 4 in your calendars. That's the day Sydney's mega metro rail line under the heart of the city will open to passengers smh.com.au/national/nsw/open…
Opening date revealed for Sydney’s mega metro rail line under harbour

Opening date revealed for Sydney’s mega metro rail line under harbour

The opening to passengers of the mega rail line under the heart of the city will happen on a Sunday in early August.

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Revealed: The high-speed rail line Sydney needs first smh.com.au/national/nsw/reve…
Revealed: The high-speed rail line Sydney needs first

Revealed: The high-speed rail line Sydney needs first

The British expert who led a review into fast rail in NSW says the proposed high-speed train line will need to be staged.

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Large inter-island ferry has run aground at the top of New Zealand's South Island (shortly after departing Picton). No reports of injuries on Aratere ferry but this is a serious incident. Aratere is one of three govt-owned ferries that ply the Cook Strait stuff.co.nz/nz-news/35031969…
Live: Aratere back at shore in Picton

Live: Aratere back at shore in Picton

After running aground on Friday, the Aratere ferry is finally back at the dock.

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Operator says it ran aground due to steering failure. It was freight-only sailing with 8 drivers and 39 crew on board
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Navy pulls rank as repairs to defective warship add to Manly ferry woes smh.com.au/national/nsw/navy…
Navy pulls rank as repairs to defective warship add to Manly ferry woes

Navy pulls rank as repairs to defective warship add to Manly ferry woes

The return of one of Sydney’s largest ferries has been delayed by a year due to a Spanish-built warship jumping the queue for a dry docking at Garden Island.

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Sydney passenger train speeds at four times the limit, risking derailment smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydn…
Sydney passenger train speeds at four times the limit, risking derailment

Sydney passenger train speeds at four times the limit, risking derailment

A driver was thrown from his seat when a train crossed at high speed from one track to another in a serious safety incident in Sydney.

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Sydney's Rozelle interchange ‘hotspots’ were known 16 months before opening of the controversial $4bn project smh.com.au/national/nsw/roze…
Rozelle interchange ‘hotspots’ were known 16 months before opening

Rozelle interchange ‘hotspots’ were known 16 months before opening

Senior managers from toll road operator Transurban have told an inquiry that the analysis was shared with the previous Coalition government.

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The scale of what's happening beneath Sydney's streets is amazing. Inside the giant cavern and tunnels for city's marquee metro station smh.com.au/national/nsw/insi…
Inside the giant cavern and tunnels for Sydney’s marquee metro station

Inside the giant cavern and tunnels for Sydney’s marquee metro station

A giant metro railway station being carved out of sandstone beneath busy streets and skyscrapers in the CBD comes with an engineering twist.

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Revealed: The rejected options to help Sydney commuters when rail line closes smh.com.au/national/nsw/reve…
Revealed: The rejected options to help commuters when rail line closes

Revealed: The rejected options to help commuters when rail line closes

Proposals to shuttle commuters north and south, or on express services via the M5 and M8 motorways during the long closure of a busy rail line, have been dumped.

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