SYDNEY’S GROWTH.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1924, Page 1

SYDNEY’S GROWTH.

UNDERGROUND RAILWAY. SYDNEY, October HI. Sydney, which, in common with (fig cities in other parts ol the world, has found it necessary to delve below the earth in order to cope with the traffic problem, is 10-dav a network of tunnels and drives underground, in connexion with the city railway. ’lhe estimated cost ol the big project is about to,001),000, but although work is proceeding apace it is tcared that unless a million of money is spent this year and a similar sum in the following financial year the big iron road will not lie ready to take tradio over the harbour bridge when it is completed in 1020. One of the railway tunnels, underneath Macquarie street, lias now reached a point in Iront of Parliament House. In the years to come the countless thousands of people who frequent the Botanic Gardens will have the railway roaring past below them, for the tunnel underneath Macquarie street, after being carried as far as the Mitchell Library, will take a sweep under the gardens to connect with the drive from Circular Quay. The roof of St James station will he only a eamparativelv few loot under the turf in Hyde Park. What the engineers are aiming at now, even il financial exigencies delay the work in nthei directions, is to push ahead so as to eive through connexion from the bridge, when it is built, to the Central Railway Station. The people of Svdnev see a statelier and more imposing city arising in all directions cvcrv day—everywhere old buildings ■ire lieine east into the dust —but they little realise the work that is going on day and ought not many feet below tlie earth's surface.