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Best friends Emma Burrows and Khayla Steain are among the tens of thousands of Harry Styles fans who will converge on Sydney Olympic Park this weekend. Cassidy Pearce reports on page 13.
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OPPOSITION PLAN FOR RAPID BUS SERVICES TO WESTERN SYDNEY AIRPORT
LABOR ON THE BUSES L
abor has promised new rapid bus services from Penrith to the new Western Sydney Airport and Aerotropolis precinict if it wins government. Opposition Leader Chris Minns said Labor would procure 84 zero emission buses for three rapid bus routes and four local bus services, with an initial commitment of $305 million over three years, to ensure services
can commence by 2026 when the airport opens. In addition to Penrith, the services would cover links to Campbelltown and Liverpool. “We have a situation where a new airport will be open, thousands of jobs created but people wanting to work at the airport don’t have access to public transport services to get there,” Minns said.
“Labor is prioritising the transport links western Sydney needs to get to and from work and around the city. “Dominic Perrottet promised the buses five years ago. They haven’t delivered. Labor will, and we’ll also create more jobs in the process by making sure the buses are built right here in NSW.” But Premier Dominc Perrottet believes it
is Labor deserting western Sydney, with a number of planned metro lines to be axed under a Minns government. “Labor are already cancelling projects from opposition because they don’t have an economic plan and without an economic plan, they can’t build the transport infrastructure that western Sydney needs,” Perrottet said.
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