
Matt O'Sullivan
Transport and Infrastructure Editor at Sydney Morning Herald
Transport and infrastructure editor for The Sydney Morning Herald @smh [email protected] Telegram: Mattonews
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1 week ago |
smh.com.au | Matt O'Sullivan
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A Qantas trainee captain who was commanding a flight from Canberra passed out briefly in the cockpit of a Boeing 737 aircraft minutes after landing at Sydney Airport. The incident occurred last Tuesday evening on Qantas flight QF804, which was carrying 113 passengers and eight crew, including three pilots.
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3 weeks ago |
smh.com.au | Matt O'Sullivan
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Deep under an inner-city Sydney suburb, two giant caverns each large enough to house an A380 superjumbo’s fuselage and tail are being carved out of sandstone.
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1 month ago |
smh.com.au | Matt O'Sullivan
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sydney’s renowned Manly ferries might be the largest vessels in the NSW government fleet, but one of them – the Narrabeen – is dwarfed in the giant dry-dock at Sydney’s Garden Island when parked in front of a naval vessel. “For our biggest boats in our fleet, they look very small,” Transport for NSW ferry projects director Tony New explained.
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1 month ago |
smh.com.au | Max Maddison |Matt O'Sullivan
By Max Maddison and Matt O'Sullivan May 20, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. All work will cease indefinitely on a new motorway in Sydney’s south after the contractors advised Transport for NSW their deal on the $3.1 billion project had been “terminated” because of tunnelling conditions that “could not have been anticipated by anyone”.
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1 month ago |
smh.com.au | Matt O'Sullivan
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. One in five Sydney peak-hour trains has run late over the past two months, despite a decade-long project to improve the network’s reliability – and the cost of upgrading critical infrastructure has now blown out by $266 million.
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