The New South Wales Government has called for expressions of interest for the project’s first two major infrastructure packages, being the delivery of twin tunnels between Westmead to Sydney Olympic Park and from Sydney Olympic Park to The Bays.
The contracts will require tunnellers, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, concrete workers, truck drivers, labourers and security guards.
These new tunnels will contribute thousands of new jobs to the anticipated 10,000 direct new jobs and 70,000 indirect jobs the Sydney Metro West project expects it will create.
Overall, the Sydney Metro West project will deliver a new underground driverless metro railway from Westmead to the city.
This metro will both double the rail capacity of the corridor and cut travel times down to around 20 minutes between Parramatta and the city.
It is expected the first of four mega tunnel boring machines will be in the ground before the end of 2022.
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