Daily Telegraph：联邦政府准备追加拨款20亿借给新州建设Westconnex环城公路
预计在下周公布的联邦财政预算案中，艾伯特政府会追加额外的20亿澳元拨款借给新州，加快建设悉尼Westconnex高速公路项目。
大笔追加拨款借给基础建设是预算案中前所未有的事情。
据Daily Telegraph了解艾伯特总理已经批准借20亿澳元给新州政府（ loan to the NSW Government ），以便新州政府提前建设悉尼Westconnex高速公路项目，预计明年年初就开工。
低利率贷款给新州是联盟党政府首创的，以资助基础设施建设。
以后新州要用道路开通后的收取的过路费来还给联邦政府。
建设33公里长的悉尼Westconnex高速公路，联邦政府将总共投资35亿澳元下去。
预计新增加的20亿澳元，将会使得新州政府可以同时对M4和M5进行改造和延伸，可以提前两年在2019年完工。
悉尼Westconnex高速公路原来设定的各期工程是
1. 第一期工程延伸M4从Strathfield到市区附近
2. 第二期工程，联邦政府给出贷款，扩建M5高速公路到双向4线， 建设M5东第二隧道。
3. 第三期工程，连接M4到机场快线和M5
预计M5东第二隧道建成后，每天的车流量将会有10万。
当整个Westconnex项目完工后：
1. 从西区Parramatta到机场的行车时间将缩短40分钟。
2. 从内西区乘坐巴士到市中心的时间减半。
3. 预计可以增加1000个工作职位
4. 西区Parramatta到机场可以绕过52个红绿灯
5. 每天减少3000辆大卡车在Parramatta路上行走
6. 对新州产生200亿的经济效益。
预计联邦政府的这一笔贷款将从明年7月1号开始到2018年12月31号为止。
之后新州政府将按照政府的债券利率来还债。
Christelle Van Schellebeeck, 20, from Rooty Hill, drives to Haberfield for work every day / Picture Craig Greenhill Source: News Limited
An artist’s impression of the Parramatta Road plan with WestConnex / Picture: Supplied Source:Supplied
$2 billion in federal funding in next week’s Budget opens up a fast track to the West
AN extra $2 billion in federal funding will be injected into fast-tracking Sydney’s Westconnex motorway project as part of an unprecedented infrastructure package in next week’s budget.
The Daily Telegraph has learnt Prime Minister Tony Abbott has approved a $2 billion loan to the NSW Government to bring forward the motorway’s stage 2 construction start date to as early as the beginning of next year.
The low-interest loan, the first of its kind to fund infrastructure, would be leveraged against the tolls charged when the road opens.
DEBT TAX LOCKED IN, PAIN TO FOLLOW
It will bring total federal funding for the 33km project to $3.5 billion and expedite completion by two years to 2019 by allowing work to begin on the M4 and M5 at the same time.
Stage one involves extending the M4 from Strathfield, where it ends now, to a stage 3 tunnel link to the airport. Stage two, with the funds from the loan, will widen the M5 East to two, four-lane expressways between King Georges Rd, Beverly Hills, and Bexley Rd, with a new 6km tunnel from St Peters to join the widened M5 East surface and a double, three-lane expressway to St Peters and Sydney Airport.
It will fund duplication of the M5 East twin tunnels used by 100,000 motorists a day.
When completed, the Westconnex will cut travel times between Parramatta and Sydney Airport by up to 40 minutes.
It will also:
î Halve bus travel times between the inner west and CBD;
î Generate 10,000 jobs;
î Bypass 52 sets of lights;
î Remove 3000 trucks a day from Parramatta Rd and;
î Deliver more than $20 billion in economic benefits.
Mr Abbott said yesterday: “Everything in this Budget is about building a stronger economy so there are a whole range of changes.
“Infrastructure is what enables us to get to work, to get home and the more time we spend stuck in traffic jams, the less time we are productively at work or the less time we’re spending with our families.”
The loan will begin to be drawn down between July 1 next year and December 31, 2018. It will be repaid at a lower interest rate closer to the government bond rate.
Christelle Van Schellebeeck, 20, drives to work from Rooty Hill to Haberfield on the M4 and Parramatta Rd.
She said she would be happy to see the upgrade fast-tracked. “It would mean less petrol and it would be faster to get to work,” she said.
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