Albion Park Rail bypass is region’s most expensive road project

Glen Humphries
Updated December 16 2018 - 11:02am, first published 10:30am
State Premier Gladys Berejiklian (left) with Illawarra MPs Gareth Ward and Shelley Hancock at the start of early works for the Albion Park Rail Bypass. Picture: Sylvia Liber
State Premier Gladys Berejiklian (left) with Illawarra MPs Gareth Ward and Shelley Hancock at the start of early works for the Albion Park Rail Bypass. Picture: Sylvia Liber

Despite being nearly three kilometres shorter than the Berry bypass, the planned Albion Park Rail bypass is costing taxpayers $50 million more.

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Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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