Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and Trackless Trams

Northwest T-Way (Sydney, NSW)
Australian National Construction Major Project Review Magazine (2008)
Leighton Contractors
URL: https://ancr.com.au/Northwest_T_Way.pdf

This feature article by Leighton Contractors on the Northwest T-Way appeared in the Australian National Construction Review Magazine.

Overall the project consisted of 24 km

  • 21 km of exclusive Priority A busway
  • 3 km of bus lanes
  • 30 bus stations
  • 2 P&R with 400 car spaces (in total)
  • Seven new bridges and three underpasses
  • 3m wide shared pedestrian path and cycle way was built along the entire length
    of the T-way.

Cost was about $542 million for 24 km and 30 stops/stations, or 22 million/km (2004 dollars). In today’s dollars about $36.3 million/km.

In December 2004 the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority (NSW RTA) awarded Leighton Contractors the contract to design, construct and maintain a $524 million transit way development for a rapid bus service linking Parramatta, Blacktown and Rouse Hill.

The North-West T-way, or T-way, would link existing bus and rail networks, including the recently completed Paramatta-Liverpool T-way. Former NSW Premier Bob Carr envisaged the T-way would provide Sydney’s North West residents with increased access to “jobs, health, education and leisure facilities”, reduced travelling times and reduced car congestion on existing roads.

Northwest_T_Way.pdf (1.2 MB)