There's plenty of it, evidenced by a pile of reports on the subject since 2003, but little action to match, the Hunter Business Chamber says.

Chamber chief executive Peter Shinnick has counted 43 documents either about transport in the Hunter or which refer to regional transport infrastructure projects.

The State Government has generated most of the reports, but contributors include local and federal government and business and transport groups.

"It says a lot about a government's decision-making process that a cursory search turns up this many reports, but we've got little else to show for it," Mr Shinnick said.

The completed documents include the Lower Hunter Transport Needs Study, which cost $1 million including $200,000 from the State Government and recommended public transport projects and the construction of the Hunter Expressway.

Another is a $125,000 draft Lower Hunter Integrated Transport Strategy, produced as part of the Lower Hunter Regional Strategy process in 2005.

It was never officially released, to be joined on a shelf later that year by a $59,000 Public Transport in the Lower Hunter: A Five Year Plan that was also dumped.

The next year, a Hunter Transport Taskforce report found the Newcastle rail line should stay, and was followed with a Warabrook Terminus and Modified Light Rail Investigation that cost about $500,000.

Mr Shinnick said it was time for the State Government to make a decision.

The Government has defended the latest round of reports as necessary to identify the true cost and feasibility of a Wickham interchange and measures to support city revitalisation.