Work starts for second Sydney Harbour rail crossing

Work starts for second Sydney Harbour rail crossingWork has commenced for the second Sydney Harbour rail crossing. Over the coming weeks, geotechnical drilling will be undertaken up to 70 metres below Sydney Harbour to help determine the best location for the new Sydney Rapid Transit railway tunnels.About 30 boreholes will be drilled as part of the Sydney Rapid Transit geotechnical program. Roughly half of them will be beneath Sydney Harbour and the rest on land either side along the route at Sydenham, in the Sydney CBD, North Sydney, Crows Nest and Artarmon.Sydney’s new rapid transit network will go from the end of the North West Rail Link at Chatswood, continue under Sydney Harbour, through new railway stations in the CBD, then west to Bankstown. There will be capacity for trains to run every two minutes. The Property Council has long advocated for a second Sydney Harbour rail crossing. It can both underpin the next wave of growth in the CBD and increase capacity by 60 percent across the rail network – enabling an additional 100,000 commuters every hour in the peak. To read the media release click here.