With an election looming, the Prime Minister has announced a major infrastructure boost for Western Sydney. The federal and state governments are each contributing half a billion dollars to transform Fifteenth Avenue in Western Sydney, a key corridor to the new airport.
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00:00This is the vision for 15th Avenue, a so-called green transport spine linking Liverpool's
00:09CBD with Western Sydney Airport, but this is the reality today.
00:14If you look at it, it's basically a goat track. It needs to be a world class piece of transport
00:20infrastructure.
00:21Keen to shore up Western Sydney seats, Anthony Albanese has agreed to go halves with New
00:26South Wales.
00:27It's massive, it's transformational.
00:30In a $1 billion road upgrade, he says we'll better connect Western Sydney with the world.
00:36It's not about a runway, it's about how you get economic development for Western Sydney,
00:41how you create jobs and opportunity.
00:44It's got the backing of the Coalition.
00:46The Dutton Government will deliver the upgrade of 15th Avenue.
00:50And of Liverpool Council, which has long been campaigning for the project. More than 22,000
00:55vehicles use the two-lane road every day, so the widening will be welcomed by many.
01:00But new homes have been built right up against its boundaries.
01:04We have been concerned for a very long time that the corridor is not wide enough and let's
01:09hope they don't have to acquire anyone's house that's just been built.
01:12The new airport is due to open next year, but this vital link won't be anywhere near
01:16complete when the first commercial flight touches down.
01:20The Government says it could take seven years before the project's completed, so a Prime
01:25Ministerial ribbon-cutting may have to wait until the next, next, next term of Government.