The NSW government's being urged to give serious consideration to an independent public inquiry that's called for the Sydney CBD metro project to be postponed or scrapped.
The inquiry, headed by former Road Traffic Authority and rail chief Ron Christie, and backed by Fairfax Medi, says money should instead be put into new heavy and light rail projects across
Sydney.
Greens MP and Transport spokeswoman Lee Rhiannon has called on Premier Kristina Kenneally to meet with Mr Christie
She says the work of the Christie inquiry puts the NSW government to shame when it comes to solving Sydney's transport crisis.
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The 450-page preliminary report recommends immediately building a $3.7bn line between Epping and Rouse Hill in north-west Sydney and a $1.3bn line between Glenfield
and Leppington in the south-west.
Major building companies says they'll pursue the state government for lost costs if it dumps or alters the Metro project, but Christie is urging the government not to sign any contracts for the CBD and parts of the West Metro projects.
Christie warns ''The proposed routes would jeopardise, perhaps fatally, future heavy rail capacity expansion and congestion-relief options within the CBD and across the harbour'', reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
