The NSW Government is considering a plan to extend Sydney’s light rail to the inner-west.

At the moment, the light rail terminates six kilometres from the city in Lilyfield.

The new line would extend to Leichhardt and to the Dulwich Hill train station.

Operators say the link could be ready within a year and would cost less than 70 million dollars to build – a fraction of the five-point-three billion set aside for the contentious CBD metro rail line.

Leading the government’s rail push is the transport minister, David Campbell.

He took time out last year to look at the light rail systems in Paris and Nice.

But other government ministers are not sold on the idea.

Gavin Gatenby from the Sydney transport lobby group, Eco-Transit Sydney, told 2SER’s Alex McDonald, that a year should be more than enough time to complete the light rail upgrade.