Now the Opposition says the Government has failed the residents of Sydney's north-west in its four-page response to the upper house inquiry recommendations into the transport needs of the region.

The response is typical of a government out of touch and out of ideas and is woefully inadequate, according to local Liberal MPs.

``Many hundreds of qualified people elected representatives, councillors, mayors and residents gave up their valuable time to contribute to the upper house inquiry last year, because of the need to provide this area with suitable public transport,'' Hawkesbury MP Ray Williams said.

``They have been ignored and rejected, demonstrating once again this State Labor Government is intent on ignoring the new growth area of the Hawkesbury-Hills, which has provided billions of dollars in stamp duty to its coffers over the past decade.''

It's a Government intent on spending $5billion dollars of taxpayer money on a CBD-Rozelle Metro that nobody wants.

The Opposition has demanded that Nathan Rees include an escape clause in the inner-city metro contract, to enable a new government to cancel the project after 2011 and inject the billions saved into the much-needed north-west rail line.

Meanwhile, a report commissioned by the Rail, Tram and Bus Union reveals almost 25,000 jobs would be created and $1.38billion injected into the state's economy if the State Government were to build three ``shovel-ready'' infrastructure projects.

It recommends the Government build the north-west rail link from Epping to Rouse Hill, complete the Epping to Parramatta link and finish the south-west rail link from Glenfield to Leppington and Bringelly.

The Fixing the Network report found the projects were ready, only needing the State Government's go-ahead to become a reality and they would integrate with the current system.

Castle Hill MP Michael Richardson said the Rees Government's response to the upper house inquiry failed to answer a fundamental question asked by the committee to set out the relative advantages and disadvantages of the three metros CBD metro, west metro and the north-west metro.

``It didn't do so because it knew that the north-west metro, which it had scrapped, would come out on top,'' he said.