Top fix-it blokes Nick Greiner and Paul Broad abandon Barry O'Farrell Premier Barry O'Farrell / Pic: Cameron Richardson Source: News Limited INFRASTRUCTURE NSW, the organisation set up by Barry O'Farrell to fix the state, is in tatters with its chairman and chief executive both quitting. The Premier made the shock announcement during Question Time yesterday. The resignations come after two years of battles between chairman Nick Greiner and CEO Paul Broad on one side, and Mr O'Farrell, Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian and Transport boss Les Wielinga on the other. Mr Greiner told Mr O'Farrell he was intending to quit in February and will finish up in July. Mr Broad said he was going five weeks ago to become the new boss of Snowy Hydro. The announcement comes as The Daily Telegraph can reveal the first project administered by INSW - the temporary convention centre at Glebe Island - has fallen over. A spokesman for Deputy Premier Andrew Stoner confirmed: "The decision to end discussions with the consortium that was the preferred tenderer for the interim exhibition facilities at Glebe Island was made solely because INSW had been unable to conclude satisfactory arrangements with them, despite lengthy negotiations." Mr Greiner confirmed last night he might have stayed in the job if the Premier had sold the $30 billion electricity networks, as he had urged, because it would have meant there were more projects which could have been planned. Would I have stayed if there was a lot more money? Who knows," Mr Greiner said. Of course I've had different views on funding (with the Premier) but you'd expect us to have some differences. My only test is what happens. If there aren't sods turned in the time of the government, you'll be at liberty to criticise Barry, me and whoever you want to criticise. Asked if he was abandoning ship, Mr Greiner said: "If in this term of the government, WestConnex is not under way, North West rail is not under way, Bridges in the Bush is not under way and the M3 is not under way, I think you'll be able to ask me that question. Those things will be built, they'll be funded and I think we deserve some reasonable credit for that. Mr O'Farrell shocked Question Time with the announcement that both men were leaving after producing the State Infrastructure Strategy last October, which was widely hailed. INSW's five-year infrastructure plan is set to come out at budget time. Both Mr Broad and Mr Greiner have been upset with the pace of government and split with the Premier over the North West Rail project. Chairman of Infrastructure NSW Nick Greiner before the press conference. Release of the Infrastructure NSW Strategy report. A 20 year infrastructure plan for NSW. Mr Broad has also been in running fights with transport boss Mr Wielinga, revealed in emails published by The Daily Telegraph in March. The Premier said the former head of the Business Council of Australia, Graham Bradley (who is a friend of Mr Greiner and succeeded him as the chairman of Stockland) would be the new INSW chairman. A do-nothing leader's delight as drive for progress crashes to a halt Comment by Andrew Clennell IT started as a dream to "take the politics out of infrastructure." But - as anyone could have predicted early in the experiment when Nick Greiner and Paul Broad ended up at loggerheads with Premier Barry O'Farrell and Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian - it's ended in tears. O'Farrell and Greiner were making out yesterday that there was still a future for Infrastructure NSW, despite the resignations of both Greiner and Paul Broad. But Broad and Greiner ARE Infrastructure NSW. The 11-person bureaucracy with its board of experts is now officially dead - with no CEO and a safe pair of hands, rather than a big personality, as its new chair. The danger is now, with a cautious poll-driven premier, nothing will get built. Nothing except a $10 billion Rouse Hill to Chatswood rail line Mr O'Farrell didn't even let Infrastructure NSW do an independent assessment on, and a light rail line down George St they warned would not work. Some in government would have been celebrating last night. They never saw the need for INSW. Surely, a government should make its own decisions on transport projects. You'd think so. But not under a premier who likes to get political cover by ordering reviews of everything. "I'd rather listen to the experts," was O'Farrell's refrain time and time again when asked which major motorway project would be built first. Well, he ignored half of what the experts said and now he's let them walk out the door. Last night he had a large smile on his face, a smile you'd expect to see from someone who has bid farewell to his two biggest internal critics. In The Daily Telegraph's "Mr Fixit" front page report two years ago it was a different, more optimistic, Nick Greiner. " (The Premier's) said to me he does want (Infrastructure NSW) to be the centrepiece of the government, it will have a powerful board," he said. It's a fair dinkum attempt to have a whole of government approach. Two years later, not one sod has been turned - just a lot of planning and a lot of promises. Even Greiner seemed to admit a lack of government money, without the sale of the electricity poles and wires he had so pushed, had helped him decide it was time to go. The Coalition has done as little as Labor did on transport infrastructure. In fact ... less.