I wouldn't put it past them to ignore the Opal data because it doesn't align with their privatisation agenda. I wouldn’t put it past some people to attack service changes - for which privatisation is actually irrelevant - purely on the basis of their anti-privatisation agenda, and not on the merits...

From the petition page, ????????? Since when did 525 go to Macquarie Uni? Getting it confused with the 545. I genuinely wonder what the Opal data says for Routes 515 and 518 regarding patronage into town and how many people on the outer ends of the route past Top Ryde City, use it most of the way i...

Missed opportunity to merge 515 and 521 to bring back some N&W similar routes :lol: It would be great if 515 could extend from Eastwood to Carlingford court via Mobbs Lane and Marsden Rd. It would provide a direct service for passengers travelling between Carlingford, Eastwood and Top Ryde. Also, t...

I would prefer to leave a legacy of adequacy to future generations rather than short-change them as previous generations of politicians and planners have. It isn't for either of us to predict how big Sydney will be in the future. The existing denser inner city core will be repeated around Parramatt...

Branching slashes the capacity of each of the branches. It's not a good way to go. With the ultimate potential of 2 minute headways and eight-car trains, the metro has all the capacity it will ever need. But the question is - will it ever be needed? To put things into perspective, the most recent t...

The other twenty services are probably extra suburban services on other lines that will be enabled by removing the Bankstown line from the system. Constance is correct in stating that there are currently 120tph coming through the CBD in the morning peak hour, but not into the CBD if you discount th...

20 TPH to Tallawong, 20 TPH to Bankstown? You've got to be creative with numbers to be a Transport Minister, That would be a reasonable expectation in the longer term, but it's still only half of the alleged extra 80tph coming into the CBD. Not forgetting that there is still the option of increasin...

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/covid-19-lockdowns-help-speed-up-sydney-metro-delivery-20210111-p56tac.html "With 120 trains moving into the CBD during peak hour, Mr Constance said the Metro would increase it to 200." So now the metro has crept up to 40tph in each direction has it? Last I heard...

Just a couple of notes. Regents Park won’t be a problem when the metro is extended west of Bankstown as the logical progression will be to absorb Yagoona and Birong, before heading to Milpera and Liverpool. As Fleet Lists pointed out, any extension of the metro from Bankstown to Liverpool is likely...

Illawarra/Cronulla Line (T4) - - Grade separation of crossovers between Illawarra Main and Local track pairs south of Wolli Creek I've seen people mention this before but as a regular user of the locals (Hurstville all station stoppers), I can't see this as providing any real benefit for the extrem...

Following on from my comments in the 'T3 from 2024' thread, I set out my thoughts below on how the existing Sydney Rail Network, aside from new metro lines which are a separate matter, should evolve over the next few decades. The projects listed are primarily focussed on track infrastructure upgrade...

Well, so far the new lines as they are progressively announced turn out to follow the exact 2056 pattern laid out in the Future Transport Strategy. Not to say there won't be any future tweaking but they did spend at least five years working on the plan (and another more than five years preparatory ...

As I recall, the long-term metro plan includes a line Kogarah-Bankstown-Parramatta-Carlingford-Epping I don't think there's any definite plan yet of how the proposed metro lines focussed on Parramatta from Norwest, Epping or Kogarah will link up. The Norwest to Kogarah link would seem to be the mos...

From the very beginning, the Parramatta Light Rail project should have adopted the preferred route in the independent feasibility study undertaken on behalf of Parramatta City Council, which was from Westmead to Macquarie Park via Parramatta and Eastwood. A light rail branch from Dundas along the Ca...

Olympic Park to CBD travel time would be 14 minutes, and Olympic Park to Parramatta travel time would be 6 minutes. I’m sure this would outweigh any additional travel time vs West Ryde. You would say that wouldn't you. Of course you overlook the cost/benefit of spending a billion dollars or more on...

If this means Stage 2 is delayed rather than cancelled, it shouldn't be too bad since Metro West if a while away as well. The light rail won't really be useful until then, especially as a feeder. It would be quicker to go by bus from Melrose Park to West Ryde Station along Victoria Rd, which is onl...

It will divert a lot of traffic from the Northern Beaches and North Shore (and vice versa) away from the existing Harbour Tunnel, the Eastern Distributor, the Harbour Bridge, the CBD and Western Distributor. As already mentioned, it is meant to be a bypass of the CBD, not to funnel more traffic into...

Wouldn’t be surprised if the Richmond branch eventually becomes part of the Cumberland Line full time with interchange at Parramatta required. They would hope most would choose Metro West. This has been suggested previously, but in the light of the feedback on the future options for T3 from 2024, I...

Not with Sydney people it's not and never will be if they keep bungling the interchange wait times. I think the outcome of the Rail Options consultation for T3 after metro conversion will have ramifications for future transport planning, particularly for metro projects like Metro West. You could sa...

More the reason to reinstate the disused Anzac Pde right of way to LaPa where they would be in their element and would be able to run faster than anywhere else and make them much more desirable to the areas south of Kingsford. Eliminates the dreaded change of mode (which the government refuses to i...

Will seamless transfers be a feature of the timetable though, waiting any more than 10min (for any part of the day) for a connection just doesn't incentivise people to use Public Transport It depends which transfers you're talking about. I expect that the current T3 service from Liverpool to the ci...

T Probably a reasonable chance that the Leppington service will be diverted to operate via the shorter Regents Park route (10 vs 14kms, 7 vs 8 stops) and the service via Granville become the Liverpool terminator. Either way the T2 route will need to be adjusted, the additional service will effectiv...

So somebody who wants to go between Liverpool and Bankstown to Waterloo will change trains twice - at Regents Park and Bankstown. Yet in the future they are planning a direct connection between Liverpool and Bankstown to Waterloo, which means there must be enough demand on this corridor to justify ...

Andrew Constance has named the current Deputy Secretary of TfNSW Peter Reagan as Acting Secretary to replace Rodd Staples who leaves in February and current Chief Operating Officer Howard Collins as Acting Deputy Secretary.

It's now been disclosed that Rodd Staples actually had his contract as Secretary of TfNSW terminated, after his return from sick leave, by Tim Reardon, his predecessor, now Secretary of the Department of Premier and Cabinet. He will continue in the role until February 2021 when his as yet unnamed re...