Sydney's A $100 million light rail project will not be operational until 2019, a further one-year delay than expected and a budget that will exceed at least A $ five hundred thousand.
Sydney Light Rail re-extension budget of at least A $ five hundred thousand (photo source: daily Mail)
The project has encountered many difficulties (photo source: daily Mail)
According to the Daily Mail, the project currently faces several problems, including the contractor's discovery of underground buildings, pipelines and indigenous cultural relics, and the fact that 10 kilometres of track have not been laid, if the work is completed as originally planned in April, It needs to be laid 260 meters a day.
A large number of nearby businesses have been affected (photo source: daily Mail)
20,000 cultural relics excavated underground in March 2016 were disrupted (photo source: daily Mail)
Only 14 kilometers of the 24.7-kilometre track from the roundabout terminal to Kingsford has been completed and costs have soared from A $1.6 billion to A $2.1 billion, with businesses around businesses suffering huge losses due to severe delays in the construction period.
Sydney City councillor and local business owner Angela Vithoulkas slammed the project for "management chaos and serious delays".
Construction of the Randwick interior was interrupted in March 2016, when about 20, 000 indigenous artifacts were discovered.
The Transport Bureau says it can be put into operation in 2019 (photo source: daily Mail)
In 2017, several buildings were found underground in Alfred Street at the ring wharf, and the work was interrupted again. Underground is the Working Men Coffee House and Chinese shops in the mid-19th century.
Last year, Spanish company AKRAC was responsible for the design, construction and integration of the track, demanding an additional A $ three hundred and thirty nine million nine hundred and ninety nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine payment. Despite the challenges, light rail construction has taken shape and will be operational by 2019, according to the new state transportation bureau.
Originally scheduled for completion at the end of 2017 (photo source: daily Mail)
The spokesman said: "some utility services have been extended to multiple construction areas and the progress of the project must be adapted to its complexity. Once the difficult underground work is completed, the collation can be carried out relatively quickly. "
It is reported that the original plan for the project shows that all areas will be completed by the end of 2017, that part of George Street will be completed in 2016, and that there are still more than 20 traffic restrictions along George Street in Sydney's CBD.