Circular Quay is Sydney’s local infrastructure production of Waiting for Godot. There have always been grand visions and a plethora of plans, reports, artists’ impressions, concepts and competitions, but nothing seems to have been done of late.

The so-called gateway has not had a major overhaul since the 1988 bicentenary celebrations. Nevertheless, $170 million has been spent in the past nine years on the project with nothing to show for the money and the development mired in the planning stage.

There has been development around Circular Quay, but the Cahill Expressway remains the same.Credit: Janie Barrett, Flavio........

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