The ABANDONED Sydney Metro plans that destroyed an entire government

Get your next Saily eSIM with a 15% discount by using the code "beautifully"! https://saily.com/beautifully The Sydney Metro first opened in 2019. But…its story really begins a decade earlier. In the late 2000s, NSW had three premiers in three years - Morris Iemma, Nathan Rees, Kristina Keneally. Each wanted their own rail plan; with devestating consequences. This is a story filled with ambition and promise, a story that eventually descended into chaos, that ruined an entire government and very nearly derailed Sydney’s public transport forever. Check out my Linktree: https://linktr.ee/building_beautifully Support me over at Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/c/user/member... Join my Discord:   / discord   Check out my TikTok:   / buildingbeautifully   Links: City Connections’ Sydney Metro History video:    • Sydney Metro: 100 Years in the Making   “The impact of discontinuity in governance: How transport planning went off the rails in Sydney” research paper from December 2011: https://1drv.ms/b/c/4581db26fec1b7aa/... The Christie Report from June 2001: https://1drv.ms/b/c/4581db26fec1b7aa/... The proposal maps from the Christie Report: https://1drv.ms/b/c/4581db26fec1b7aa/... Sydney’s Ultimate Rail Network from Christie Report: https://1drv.ms/b/c/4581db26fec1b7aa/... Transport Annual Report 2007 that discusses the MREP on Page 22: https://1drv.ms/b/c/4581db26fec1b7aa/... A map of preserved corridors through Sydney CBD: https://1drv.ms/b/c/4581db26fec1b7aa/... A map of the MREP proposal: https://1drv.ms/i/c/4581db26fec1b7aa/... The NSW Government Department of Planning’s Major Project Assessment into the North-West Rail Link: https://1drv.ms/b/c/4581db26fec1b7aa/... SMH article from March 2008 where Iemma announces the metro: https://www.smh.com.au/national/city-... SMH article from July 2008 that denounces the metro as a disaster: https://www.smh.com.au/national/metro... A 7:30 Report from May 2008 at the State Labor Conference where Iemma’s attempts to privatise the state’s electricity sector were lambasted:    • Iemma dangerously defiant over power priva...   SMH article where Morris Iemma resigns: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw-p... 2009 Archive of the Sydney Metro proposal during Rees’ time as Premier: https://web.archive.org/web/200910292... CBD Metro Environmental Assessment, likely from late-2009: https://1drv.ms/b/c/4581db26fec1b7aa/... SMH article from May 2009 that concedes the CBD Metro would run almost empty: https://web.archive.org/web/201509241... Keneally cancels the CBD Metro: https://web.archive.org/web/201005250... Metropolitan Transport Plan Document: https://1drv.ms/b/c/4581db26fec1b7aa/... SMH article from June 2012 where the government announces the North-West Rail Link would be a metro, paired with a second harbour crossing: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/s... SMH article from May 2017 on the poles and wires deal being finalised: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/n...