A novel track work configuration this weekend with only the locals operating and T9 running all stations in the inner west. For once the inner west doesn’t get shafted.

Unfortunately there is no more corridor width available for track amplification in the inner west because of intense urban development both sides of the corridor. Alternative solutions have to be found. Of the Bradfield-era reservations, the short stretch north of Sydenham still survives, the Main ...

The crux of the metro vs ST issue really comes down to automation. These things need to be cheaper to run long term. The fact is that ST is too overstaffed and expensive to operate.

So a full train every 30 min or a 1/2 full one every 15 min. I know what I’d prefer.

Much better than bustituting the inner west as so often happens.

Most people these days have their head down and hands on a gadget and probably couldn’t care less which way they are facing

The elephant in the room is that the operating costs of the existing heavy rail system are just too high for any government of any persuasion to be interested in investing a whole lot of extra into it. I’m of the understanding that the operating costs of the Metro are expected to be close to covered...

I will say that I think that the Metro would have been better running along the Airport line to Revesby rather than the Bankstown line. However I understand why they did it this way. I still think that post 2030 the Airport line should be converted to Metro or at a minimum Single Deck trains. Probl...

It’s more complete than the previous rebrand, many stations have gone from 2 brands ago to the current one.

Wolli Creek, as with all the Airport Line stations, is very poorly designed with it's severely narrow platforms and excessive curve. That's privatisation for you. They don't give a stuff about long term planning, just about short term profit and they even failed on that score. A bunch of imbeciles....

There have been inner west (homebush) services running across the bridge to Hornsby, using flying crossovers to get to 16 at central.

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Ikarbus wrote:
Nice to see it out in the day time!

Among all that ugly war zone construction. This may backfire worse than the Wagga bi election.

God help us if we go back to another 10 years of do nothing Labor.

Indeed, it’s not straightforward comparing metro lines to a commuter railway. Having said that the displays could be sexier.

I imagine that a lot of the backlash is not so much about bags for shopping but the myriad other uses to which the bags are put after they get home, notably garbage but very many other uses too, as we all know. The line being pushed about them being "single-use" bags is complete bs, as is...

At least they are all on major railways

To give them credit, rightly or wrongly at least they have actually followed through in what they had proposed to do, unlike the previous govt.

Most people have their heads down in gadgets, so WiFi, tables and chargers are going to trump direction of travel for most, if there is a choice.

http://www.lukefoley.com.au/labor_announces_top_transport_priority_accelerate_new_western_metro_rail_line_for_western_sydney I see that Sydney Metro West will be labor's top priority for rail development. Maybe it will be build sooner than originally thought. Just like the CBD metro and north west ...

Inner West trains are being transposed to skip Summer Hill, Lewisham, Petersham and Stanmore, but then they are stopping at Newtown and Macdonaldtown. Is there a crossover back to the locals between Stanmore and Newtown I don't know about? Trackwork today has all trains running on the local between...

By far the biggest perceived benefit of the metro as it will stand for the govt is its favorable cost recovery when it opens, and lack of ongoing drain on the treasury purses.


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I don’t think any of these ‘heavyweights’ really have any credibility.


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Liamena wrote:It does seem rather pointless that they built the 4 tracks and don't use them. But I only go there on weekends.

The problem of course is the city circle, one can build as many tracks as one wants but they need somewhere to go.

T8 timetable modification if most probably due to the poor connection time between limited stops services and all stops services. I would suspect that another singular station will be added to the limited stops services between the City and Macarthur to aid better connections beteeen services. It i...

They need something instead of a T for intercity, maybe BMT in a box?


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