[3] In June 2022, the NSW Government announced that some proposed major infrastructure projects including Stage 2 of the M6 Motorway, the Beaches Link and the Great Western Highway Blackheath to Little Hartley Tunnel would be shelved indefinitely, due to market constraints and labour shortages.

Only the six-lane Captain Cook Bridge and a short connecting section of Taren Point Road to the south were built and opened in May 1965 as part of the F6 extension proposal.

[15] The completion date of Stage 1 was also pushed back to late 2025, with major construction planned to begin by early 2022.

[17] In June 2022, the NSW Government announced that some proposed major infrastructure projects including Stage 2 of the M6 Motorway would be shelved indefinitely, due to market constraints and labour shortages.

These include upgrades to Ador Park and McCarthy Reserve at Rockdale, and Brighton Memorial Playing Fields at Brighton-Le-Sands.

[19] The upgrades are due to the upcoming construction impacts on the open space and recreational facilities at Rockdale Bicentennial Park.

[20] In May 2021, the design and construction contract for Stage 1 was awarded to CIMIC Group's subsidiaries CPB Contractors and UGL, in a joint venture with Ghella.