Construction of Metro West at Pyrmont continues apace despite Premier Chris Minns casting doubt on the project several months ago.Credit:Janie Barrett
Despite gaining the final report on Metro West weeks ago,the government failed to meet its own deadline to release the review led by Mike Mrdak and Amanda Yeates by Tuesday this week.
Two sources close to the rail project,who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter,said the planned partnership model for Metro West was to be scrapped,a year after Macquarie bankers were awarded nearly $30 million to help state bureaucrats set it up.
Under the planned model,contractors and other companies associated with the 24-kilometre rail line were to have bought a stake in the special purpose vehicle in which the government would hold a majority share.
A formal decision by cabinet to jettison the planned entity still has to be made.
That pending decision comes after the government this week delayed revealing whether it will build extra stations along the line from the Sydney CBD to Parramatta.
Before Mrdak and Yeates briefed Haylen on the final Metro West report on September 14,her ministerial diaries show she met the pair five weeks earlier.