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Sydney's Metro Northwest rail line to be completed $500m under budget

"This was project was promised for decades and decades and now today the final bit of track has been laid," Ms Berejiklian said after watching site manager Ben Miller lock down the last sleepers on the section between Bella Vista and Epping.

"Every major project including this one goes through challenges," she said. "We know the Skytrain part of the project was particularly challenging.

"Some things during the course of the project took a bit longer but then we've been able to reign it back in."

The Premier talked up the benefits of the Metro, which she called "the first turn up and go service" in the country, with a driverless train arriving every four minutes during peak periods.

'This is the best form of public transport you'll ever get," she said. "Everbody is going to be blown away come day one when you can actually jump on the train and see what it's like. I think everyone will say 'what about me, I want one too'."

Mr Constance said the next stage of the project, Metro City, was underway with twin tunnels being built between Chatswood and Sydenham via the Sydney CBD.

"We've got stations yet to be fitted out and completed and then, of course, the testing and the commissioning of the driverless train," he said. "All this is going to happen in the next 12 months or so. We'll have passengers on the trains come the first half of 2019."

Asked how voters could trust her government to deliver infrastructure projects given the light rail will not be finished until a year later than promised, a defiant Ms Berejiklian urged voters to "watch this space".

"We're going to keep delivering, keep working hard, and judge us by our actions," she said.

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