First look at Sydney’s new Airport Metro
I like the features onboard like real time flight arrivals and departures as well as the shared space for bikes, mobility scooters prams and wheel chairs with straps.
Our trains should be shared spaces as well with priority for wheelchairs and prams when needed. It just makes more sense to do it that way.
Itll be interesting to see how many of these features the QTMP trains have.
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“We can’t afford another Metro”
“Would take at least 15 years until another one”
“$1 billion is a drop in the ocean, Sydney to Parramatta cost $25 billion”
But the same amount in new toll roads we can afford!!! It’s progress
I was just in Sydney this week and rode the metro from Martin Place to Crows Nest then back to Barangaroo. Frequency is great at every 5 mins during the day. No overcrowding, air conditioning good, acoustics A1 (stations very quiet), excellent lighting and accessibility to the platforms/surface levels and excellent voice over announcements. I really like Barangaroo Station as well as it takes you to the waters edge where you can walk/cycle along the new trail back to Cockle Bay and to Circular Quay, via Walsh Bay.
P.s. Fare gates are unattended yet everyone taps on and off. They are likely AI monitored though (efficiency all round). 
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But a bus is cheater to implement!! The business case says so!! Sarcasm 1000% intended.
Designs approved for new metro stations
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Calls for drivers and driver cabin to be installed on driverless Sydney Metro trains.
I hate to say it, but this seems like a pretty clear case of how a union’s interests and the general public’s interests can be misaligned.
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Sydney Metro to Bankstown nears completion.
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‘Absolutely world beating’: How a year of metro has shaken up the way Sydney moves. As Sydney marks the first anniversary of opening of the city section of the Metro line, figures show stations in the CBD are consistently surpassing patronage forecasts.
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Goes to show the importance of planning systems out well, including a high frequency and grade separation
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Value and outcome over lowest cost
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Rail Express: Sydney Metro City celebrates record-breaking first year
This week marks one year since the opening of Sydney Metro City, with more than 66.8 million journeys taken on metro services stretching from Sydney’s northwest, under the CBD and out to Sydenham in Sydney’s south.
Overall public transport usage has also increased since the opening, with more than 17.8 million additional ticketed trips across all modes recorded between August 2024 to July 2025 compared with the same period in 2023/24. …
Tallawong to St Mary’s and Bradfield to Campbelltown metro extensions confirmed. Metro West to continue on to Zetland and Randwick. Parramatta metro station to take heavy rail lines too apparently.
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^ That’s certainly how it reads - I can’t imagine we are looking at T3 being converted to metro for those kinds of service levels - but I wonder if the bit between Cabramatta and Liverpool is written in stone. The indications are the New Cumberland Line might just be “conventional” tech but that seems like it just bakes in issues for the future (see below).
Missing (and seen in various other iterations of network development plans):
- M1 extension to Liverpool or beyond
- Kogarah to Randwick
- Randwick to Maroubra or beyond
- Link between Macquarie Park - Top Ryde - Rhodes - Olympic Park - Strathfield - Campsie - Kingsgrove - Hurstville
I would envisage having 2 lines go through to the Northern Beaches that aren’t CBD lines - extension of the NCL from Epping to Gordon, then to Forestville / Forestway shops / Northern Beaches Hospital / Brookvale / Manly, and extension of the Hurstville-Macquarie Park line to Gordon, St Ives, Terrey Hills and Mona Vale. Then, in the much longer run, a line from Mona Vale or further north to Parramatta via the A8 corridor to Neutral Bay, eastern side of the CBD, U Syd, Whites Bay and then the A40 corridor.
NSW Government looking to delete metro station to save money as metro line construction costs blowout by $2-5b.
Road projects relying on tunnels also doing the same too.
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