Sydney Metro
Why Sydney will end up with three incompatible metro train lines
Sydney’s new driverless metro trains and stations will have key differences that mean the three lines will have trains that cannot be switched between them.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
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Central Station’s grand underground cavern to open to Sydney commuters
A blaze that destroyed a building near Sydney’s Central Station has failed to derail the 4am opening on Monday of a massive new concourse.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
The reasons Sydney’s rail network is set to worsen in the future
An interim review into repeated failures across Sydney’s rail network lays much of the blame on a major shakeup of the rail timetable six years ago.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
Watch the first metro train travel under Sydney Harbour
While you slept, a piece of history was unfolding 40 metres below the harbour.
- by Anthony Segaert
First train crosses Sydney Harbour underwater
At 2am on April 21, a single-deck metro train traversed its way from Tallawong through Chatswood and North Sydney before running under Sydney Harbour.
First train to run under harbour, 91 years after loco chugged over bridge
Sydney is set to make history early on Friday when the first train travels through rail tunnels beneath Sydney Harbour as part of critical testing.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
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Planning
‘Worse than we thought’: NSW’s massive housing shortfall revealed
The state is expected to deliver just 36,000 new homes a year in the coming five years – but it needs to build 62,800, briefing documents show.
- by Michael Koziol
Sydney train drivers told to use walkie-talkie radios as back-up
Old technology is on standby in case a critical digital system at the centre of a shutdown last month fails again.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
Premier flags potential for extra stations along Sydney’s Metro West line
A wide-ranging review into Sydney’s troubled mega rail projects will consider extra stations for the metro line between the CBD and Parramatta.
- by Matt O'Sullivan and Michael McGowan
New metro rail line under Sydney Harbour risks blowing out to $20.5 billion
The new Labor government seized on documents it says reveal the former government did not disclose the true cost of constructing its signature rail line.
- by Michael McGowan and Matt O'Sullivan
‘Nightmare’: Residents enter fourth year of Metro pain as construction drags on
From falling debris to a flooded backyard, people in the inner west say the rail project is causing major disruption to their lives – and they still don’t know when it will end.
- by Matt O'Sullivan