Because they flooded this country with immigrants without ever asking us if we wanted them and now they expect us to just deal with it... The immigrants are completely ungrateful and rude also.. They even seem to hold some strange animosity towards us... Politicians have completely destroyed this country, its culture and its future and if anyone says anything critical about this situation the media will assault them with accusations of "racism" etc... I dont even care anymore.. Call me a racist i could give a damn.
People have been talking about it for the better part of 50 years - will never happen though sadly, especially not a network that small. It will never make back the money spent
@@inbox_au For sure, Canberra - Sydney - Newcastle is my favourite. As long as we're not wasting time trying to get an all-or-nothing line between Sydney and Melbourne. Just upgrade the slow parts! Replacing slow sections makes so much more difference than upgrading fast lines - it's counterintuitive. And you can run the same trains on HST lines as on older lines.
@@soyHapns The days of a Labor government. Sadly we are back to that but Sydney Metro was devised when they were out of office - too late for them to try and stop it.
On holiday in Sydney right now from Perth. The construction of massive motorway tunnels and the density of the infrastructure here makes my home look like a small town!
@@leonchn7500 Errm, I lived in Perth when the first Jurassic Park was released in cinemas and the "pencil" shaped building had R & I on it, the city looks almost the same as it did then...the only visible difference is Elizabeth Quay and the kinda oversized and ugly BHPBilliton building...otherwise the city centre is quite small.
I live in Sydney, and it’s great to see that politicians understand how to make a good city, but I think our bike infrastructure is sort of being ignored
What percentage of the population use or wish to use a bike to traverse the City? Billion dollar infrastructure projects for those people is simply not worth it. I live in the UK and have seen multiple Citys spend fortunes adding lanes to roads and extensions to paths for bike users, only for them to hardly be used. It's made worse by the fact that it's paid for by road tax which is paid by car users. Bike riders do not contribute towards the infrastructure they demand.
I feel like B1M targets almost everything I watch from them at 13-year-olds just getting interested in infrastructure, which is fine but frustrating for me when I want expert analysis, detail and discussion.
I just wish they had built it north of newcastle aimed out to sea with a high speed rail link rather than aiming the runways at where 4 million people sleep for a 24 hour airport.
@@tylerdavidson2400 did you see in this very video where he said Sydney was one of the worst for both? Also, someone else having it worse doesn't make it better somehow. What kind of fool uses that as a basis for trying to make a point? We could put the airport here where it won't bother anyone, or we could aim it at where 4 million people sleep. Hey I found a worse airport somewhere let's do the second one so we can say we are only the second worst that's totally fine! You sir are very very special.🤦♂️
It's neat seeing all those workers hold up their phones to witness the tunnel bore break through, as if The Who was on stage. I'd be proud to be part of historic expansion too.
I was 14yo when I visited Sydney in 2005 from Kuala Lumpur. Already at the time, Sydney's transit system is very huge and it goes everywhere. The city itself is very nice to walk in. Also, a freaking new airport??? I don't think we heard many Australian megaprojects previously and I'm very sure Sydneysiders are pretty facking excited for these. Congratulations!
As someone who lives in the hills and works in Chatswood, the stage 1 metro has been life-changing. Every.single.trip to the office, I’m in awe at the frequency, speed, and how many cars I imagine the metro has displaced. My annual driving has dropped by 15,000 kilometres. I hope that after the disruptions, people in the new areas can experience the same top-tier service, carrying Sydney into the future. (These price tags are massive, but maybe in 30 years, we’ll have a great metro system and be like “$60 billion, lol, lucky we built it then, it'd cost $700 billion if we did it now”)
@@whophd Loading gauge is the same across all rail systems in Sydney. The voltage is different and the airport line carriages a little wider to accomodate the extra lugguage for airport travellers
As someone who has lived in Sydney my whole life,I have never seen so much infrastructure project built in the past 7-8 years. The last major project was in 1999 with the m5 airport tunnel. Now we have the M4, M8, West connex,North Connex tunnels and soom m6 tunnel, 2nd Harbour tunnel, New Airport, Barangaroo, new Darling harbour and Fish Market development. This on top of this metro AND light rail project. However all this will only make Sydney even more unafforable
I was with you until the last statement. Transport helps affordability, and it’s what you have to build (along with schools and hospitals, and the funding to run them) when your city grows. What is the alternative - only the people within walking distance can work there. Take a look at how the first tram networks changed cities, and allowed people living in the farmland to get jobs in the city. Before that, the only people who worked there were living in expensive homes or slums within walking distance.
Love stuff regarding tunnels ( old and new ) with the why and how of building them and the hurdles along the way. Just a damned fascinating topic. Thanks for uploading!
Im from Melbourne and I see Sydney really has a huge head start on better public transport infrastructure than us. We are currently way behind and bogged down with the unfortunate but necessary level crossing removal projects across the metropolitan area. Well done Sydney.
I think one of the reasons for so-many level-crossing removals in Melbourne is just terrain; Sydney is more lumpy so the line was often higher or lower; which lead-itself to overpasses etc - Brisbane is similar : there are many height differences that even a very long time ago naturally lead-to overpass/underpass situations, but several [expensive] problems remain - like Coopers Plains, yep a plain, and barely above the creek.
The level crossings are necessary in Melbourne, makes a huge difference to flow of traffic and safety. The Metro is also world class and will be finished later this year. Don't forget how much Sydney siders pay in tolls, the most in the world.
you could always come live in hobart - our councils debate using an already established rail line being too expensive to operate light rail on, despite having the worst public transport system in australia
With both Melbourne and Sydney upgrading their public transport all we need now is a good intercity rail link. The Melbourne/Sydney air link is one of the busiest in the world. Europeans are building train routes that effectively compete with air. The train that runs now is a relic from 1980s.
It be very expensive to do. They will have to upgrade the track for a fast rail. It is a long way from Sydney to Melbourne. It be lot further than Europe has to only build. It be more like trying to upgrade rail tracks from distance from Rome to Moscow
@@Nathan-ry3yuMelbourne to Sydney is a direct line of 953km. Rome to Moscow is not a direct line, goes through several countries and many different terrains, and is 2,375km.
Is that the one they've stupidly decided to name Gadigal Metro? Stupid because Gadigal isn't a specific place within the CBD and doesn't tell patrons anything about the destination, a hallmark of political correctness and pointless handwaving virtue signalling superseding common sense and basic urban transport naming conventions!
I attended the community open day at the Victoria Cross station and it is truly a modern marvel of engineering. It features the first lift only station access at its Northern end. This is due to the topography of North Sydney and the station needing to be deep so the metro tunnel can go under the harbour to Barangaroo on the south side of Sydney Harbour and also the narrow corner block this entry is located at. At the southern end of Victoria Cross station it has 3 long escalators to get to the surface. All the stations are impressive on the new Sydney Metro Station but this one is next level.
wish i knew about that. i work in north sydney not far from the new station so itll be the station i use once it opens. would have loved to have had a peak inside.
as a wheelchair user, this is cool :) Most stations have a single lift & if it's broken, you're simply told you cannot use that station. When they repair/upgrade the lifts, they take them out of action for 3 months or more at a time before replacing with a single lift. During the entire Wynyard upgrade period, there was no wheelchair access to the station, or reasonable ramp angle access to the bus stops above it either. I used to go into the city a lot, but stopped as a result of that
@@mehere8038 Great feedback. The lifts at the southern end are pretty quick. You do have to use 2 lifts to exit at the southern entrance of Victoria Cross but if you time it with the lifts ready when you exit the train you can reach Miller street in around 2 minutes from door opening to exiting the station at street level.
Keep in mind - this is being built *in addition* to our existing Sydney Trains suburban rail network, which already has 170 stations on 369kms of track, including several lines that already run through the city. When the Metro lines are all built as well, Sydney will be one of the world's greatest railway cities
The suburban network is overworked and not to mention it's curfew continues to hurt sydney's already very damaged nightlife. So i think the metro will be a welcome addition.
metro really should be double decker though shouldn't it! It's not going to stand the test of time as it is - and even short term it's largely a failure, due to the lack of seating & people travelling long distances not being willing to stand that entire trip everyday & so choosing the car instead
@@mehere8038 No, the metro should be single deck, like every other in the world. This allows more doors, which speeds up boarding and disembarking, especially during peak times when trains are crowded.
@@mehere8038 No - thats not how metro systems function. You need more frequency, low dwell time at stations. The idea is most people also wouldn't be travelling long distances, but thats not something the metro can solve.
The State of Railways in the UK is in a terrible state. For the Country that started it all not a good look Australia is just a proper Inter City Railway away from completely overtaking the UK beyond reach Comparing Cities like Manchster, Leeds or Birmingham to Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney😂😂. At least we've got London I guess
@@BLACKSTA361 to be fair the population of those UK cities you've mentioned are much smaller than the Australian ones. Sydney has literally 10x the population of Manchester
@@FizzleDrizzle-th8ru Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure Australian Cities are counted by the Metro Area compared to only the CBD or City limits how others would call it. Sydney and Melbourne is still far ahead tho even when comparing Metro Area vs Metro Area compared to Greater Manchester or the West Midlands in Size, Population or Transportation tho
It is still hugely disappointing that the new second airport in Sydney doesn't have a rail or metro connection to the T8 train line to connect easily to the existing Sydney airport. Not to mention the fast growing Sydney greater south west that has rapid suburban growth without rail infastruture missing out.
True. It’s incredible that it’s getting any train at all on Day 1. I love to point out: Sydney and Melbourne are two cities with two airport railways 😜😜
Just visited the Victoria Cross Station tunnel on open day. It is beautifully constructed. It also is the only station in Australia that has an exit point with no escalators or stairs but a lift only.
An A380 does not weigh 1100 Tonnes, they weight approximately 300 Tonnes. They are also only 73 metres long and not 120 metres. Who incorrectly researched this ?
@@tylerdavidson2400hopefully with the lockout law lifted and the rich boring boomers cark it, it will pickup again, back like it used to be in the 80s and 90s!
@@decepticons_destroy I'm in my 20s and go out in Sydney a lot, it's definitely getting it's mojo back. Probably not 90s and 2000s levels yet but much improved from the 2010s
The stations alone deserve their own program - absolutely massive and some effectively sitting below the harbour line. Was hoping BM1 would also include the extensive road tunnel system recently opened which includes the world’s biggest underground interchange.
As a proud Sydney Sider myself, I'm so hyped for the opening of the Sydney Metro North Shore/City Line later this year which will connect to the Northwest line at Chatswood to Sydenham via. The CBD, as it will significantly reduce my commute time into the City.
Correction it wont connect to the nw metro. It extends it seamlessly so chatswood is just another stop before the city and beyond. In 2026 it extends to bankstown
I live in Melbourne, and am in awe out how Sydney/NSW is able to build massive infrastructure projects without putting the State into generational debt and without the ridiculous cost blow-outs. They can build an airport 35 klms from the city centre, but already have invested in public transport links to connect. Melbourne is still pontificating over an airport rail link 50 years after Tullamarine was devised. All we hear about in Victoria is about our ‘big build’ - which is all essentially PR, whilst other States go quietly, efficiently and economically prudently building their own infrastructure…..grrrrrr
@@sebastians8871 The Metro is being built entirely from NSW coffers. The problems in Victoria is that until very recently most money for transport was directed at roads.
You guys really need an Australian editor. Victoria Cross had an open day a few weeks ago and there is heaps of better video content of the near complete station. No-one would refer to Metro West as Stage 2. Stage 2 is Chatswood - Sydenham, Stage 3 would be Sydenham - Bankstown, and that's just M1. The Airport West will be next to open so Stage 4 if you say. And finally if you do this video you should be mentioning the Western Harbour Tunnel as well.
They didn't say the location of this Victoria Cross station, but I gather from the comments it's at North Sydney, maybe replacing the train station there?
@@VanillaMacaron551 Victoria Cross station is in North Sydney but is not replacing the current station. North Sydney will now have two stations. On the south side of Nth Sydney's CBD is North Sydney station which provides access to T1 and T9 Sydney Trains lines. On the north side of Nth Sydney's CBD will be Victoria Cross station which will provide access the M1 Sydney Metro line.
The Airbus A380 weighs about 280,000kg with a take-off weight of 560,000kg. And it is 78m long, so that machine is closer to double length and weight of an A380- I wouldnt call it "about the length and weight of an A380."
@@matthewkozak7369 Hahaha yeah, 2 of them at full weight is *actually* about 1100T. Its so sad as I like this channel, and I'm not sure what other facts I've remembered from their vids, that may not be correct
04:50 you say abought the length and weight of an A380, which is partially true, while the A380 is 73 meters but its weight is 'only' 560 tons so HALF the weight so not particularly close
Im still waiting for the B1M special of the Rozelle Underground Spaghetti Interchange. Fascinating enough to be one of the world's largest interchanges, but then to have the whole thing underground in an engineering marvel.
@@anneloving8405 navigating it yes. Exit lanes can be on both sides. Wrong move and you end up somewhere completely different. GPS systems not much help
I live in Sydney and can confirm: the Metro will be a massive upgrade, when it's done... eventually... To get anywhere in the city by car you more or less have to go on a tolled highway, add the cost of those tolls to the cost of our housing, groceries and a bunch of other stuff and yeah... it gets very unaffordable very quickly.
Just catch public transport, or ride a bike? What is affordability anyway? Sydney siders complaining about the cost of living but making zero choices to help them? Oh I stopped buying chocolate or chips though 👏👏 just remember you have so much more than people can dream of here in Sydney and yet you still complain, you still want more, it’s never enough. I have no money but still appreciate the life we have in this beautiful place. Too many people take it for granted.
@@ssusggus lol ride a bike to visit my grandmother, no worries mate, it's only 50km each way. Oh hey I'll take public transport. 2.5 hours each way. It's so simple!
@@68404 yeah it is a complete nightmare. It has recently started going again, but with the previous delays and mismanagement and coverups, it will likely be down there for a few years yet
And that harbour-crossing section you describe was just opened today, to much celebration and many joyrides by the public. They say 200,000 people used it today.
“One of the biggest rail projects in the world …” Behind the “Grand Paris Express “ , with the double in length and numbers of stations and half of the costs…
$64 billion Australian is $42 billion American. The Paris project is up to $39 American. The length of the Paris project is 200 km, which is about 80% longer than the Sydney project. This project also goes under a harbor.
One of means that something belongs to the group of things mentioned, not that it is the lead or first amongst them. Australia is one of the countries in the Southern Hemisphere. Sydney is one of the cities that have hosted the Olympics. The statement “One of the biggest rail projects in the world,” tells us that if one were to compile a list of big rail projects currently happening on the planet then this project would be on it. It doesn’t say it would be the biggest, it would just make the list, or anything else.
Why would you seek to compare them? "2.2 million people live in Paris for a size of 105 km2 whilst 4.8 million people live in Sydney, but it's 155 times bigger (12,144 km2). The population density is 21,369 people/km2 for Paris vs 395 people/km2 for Sydney." These cities are not comparable.
Wow what an amazing programme well done to bring this Two Us What excited railway system in australia at the moment in sydney. I can't wait to go to australia specialist sydney and ride those trains And thanks again. Please bring more videos like this of building projects. Thank you.
Vancouver is similarly divided by the ocean inlet into North and South. The infrastructure between the two is abysmal. That city badly needs what Sydney is doing.
A TBM is assembled kind of like a large LEGO set. When the tunnelling has been completed they dismantle the TBM piece by piece and lift out all of the pieces.
Sometimes they don't. If site conditions make removal too costly or logistically difficult, they will bore a short spur or extension to the tunnel, and just leave the machine down there.
Just the cutter head and the shield though, as they are wider than the concrete tunnel rings they place behind them. The gantrys on the back all get wheeled out and sent away
The East side is pretty small. There are some very expensive harbourside suburbs though. There is a plan to extend the Metro West into the Eastern Suburbs (no idea if or when that will happen). They currently have the T4 Eastern Suburbs (heavy rail ) line, the L2 Randwick and L3 Kingsford light rail lines, a limited ferry service, and lots of buses.
Never ceases to amaze me how much I find out about what construction is going on in my home city from your channel ! Keep up the good work as usual 🤓 Gold star for u ⭐️
That’s not the reason, the reason is uneven government spending on things that actually matter, instead of extra military spending, transport needs to get more funding, think before you comment.
The fact that the tunnels will total to longer than the Chunnel [ at 6:10 ] really puts it into perspective; and shows how-far tunneling has come in a few short decades.
All we need now is a skyliner or monorail that goes everywhere. And a tunnel under main roads in the city like paramatta rd or extend the cross city tunnel
Phase 1 took about 8 years. It got actively started when the previous State government came to power in 2011 (had been numerous announcements from the previous government but always followed by cancellation - their pitiful failure to deliver almost any public transport infrastructure was one of the many reasons they were finally kicked out of office in 2011). That NW leg opened in 2019. Phase 2 is the under-harbour route through the city as far as Sydenham. That's in final testing now and is due to open sometime in the next 2-3 months. That one will be a massive game changer. The extension to Bankstown is then due in 2025. Metro West isn't likely now until 2032 (we had another change in State government last year and the new lot ran a load of "reviews" - all of which told them what anyone with half a brain already knew - they were fantastic projects and quite obviously should continue).
@@NervousValuableThe London Tube (tunnelling started in 1863)? The GUP Moskovsky Metropoliten (Moscow Metro) (tunnelling started in 1935)? Antwerp Tram lines (tunnelling started in 1963)? Paris Metro (tunnelling started in 1898)? Sydney Metro opens in 2019.... 50 years too late, and that's not being harsh at all - making 50 years ago, the year 1975.
How to build infrastructure; you plan, start building and continue building. Do not change your mind part way through and do half a job. Build the skils and culture, no stop start stop bs, don't copy the british.
Or put stricter regulations on outsourcing for major companies forcing them to actually invest into the Australian economy rather than their own pockets.
I love your optimism. If Oz has one defining trait when it comes to infrastructure, it's that projects rarely come in on time and never on budget. It's great that they are making progress but I wouldn't bet the farm on this being ready by 2030.
ah! loved the animation explaining the detail of how the borrowing machine (you said the name 20 times per video and yet I am drawing a blank) how it gets rid of the crushed rock! as usual, stellar production! Oh oh also if you ever come about a project that specifically addresses the problem of the movement of tectonic plates (oh no the bridge is too short now) or the sea eating up the shore and solutions in construction, that'd be interesting too!
omg NSW is spending their money on their own people, nooo thats not how it works we gotta spend money on some random town in Queensland even though queensland has their own government
Building an extensive metro system has a dramatic impact on any city, normally a very positive impact. I remember back in 2008 when the Beijing metro system was complete and it was astounding. I could travel to almost any location I wanted to go to by metro, while previously I had to use taxi’s or buses. While back in 2000 taxi’s were plentiful and cheap, by 2008 they were getting harder and harder to find, so a metro system really made a difference to me. I expect this metro system will really impact a lot of people in Sydney ion a very positive manner.
As someone who lives in Sydney, our traffic situation is absolutely abysmal. So when this is complete it will be a massive relief
Go on the M8 - no dramas
My aunt lives in Auckuland - NZ and she says its waaaay worse than Sydney
@@KanyeKetchup Look at mr millionaire over here
@@hakohito Thanks for letting us know.
Because they flooded this country with immigrants without ever asking us if we wanted them and now they expect us to just deal with it... The immigrants are completely ungrateful and rude also.. They even seem to hold some strange animosity towards us... Politicians have completely destroyed this country, its culture and its future and if anyone says anything critical about this situation the media will assault them with accusations of "racism" etc... I dont even care anymore.. Call me a racist i could give a damn.
Now all we need is high speed rail between Newcastle, Sydney and Wollongong (NSW) 🚄
Yep it’s a logical step.
People have been talking about it for the better part of 50 years - will never happen though sadly, especially not a network that small. It will never make back the money spent
Tough geography.
I think Canberra is a better bet.
@@inbox_au For sure, Canberra - Sydney - Newcastle is my favourite. As long as we're not wasting time trying to get an all-or-nothing line between Sydney and Melbourne. Just upgrade the slow parts! Replacing slow sections makes so much more difference than upgrading fast lines - it's counterintuitive. And you can run the same trains on HST lines as on older lines.
Love watching my City change. Its amazing to watch
I used to live on the northern beaches, wasn't going to the cbd often but often when I went back something new was being built or finished
@@soyHapns The days of a Labor government. Sadly we are back to that but Sydney Metro was devised when they were out of office - too late for them to try and stop it.
Melbourne's better
@@BoblbzmwVomca Both are shitholes.
@@BoblbzmwVomca At what?
The Chatswood to CBD and Sydenham should be open mid this year :)
I can’t wait
Same. Very much looking forward to it 🎉🎉🎉
Also, Rouse Hill is not the last station. It’s Tullawong
@@yianniathanasopoulos it is Tallawong
@@yianniathanasopouloshe was referring to the suburb in which it ended in not the actual station
... " in the world" 😂 - the favourite phrase in all the B1M videos 😂
Only took a few seconds into the video for the first one 😂
Jeremy Clarkson would be proud.
You have forgotten the largest and the biggest 😂😂😂😂
There is a Movie voice guy who does coming attractions that does "In a world" classic funny stuff.
Every new project has some unique aspect
On holiday in Sydney right now from Perth. The construction of massive motorway tunnels and the density of the infrastructure here makes my home look like a small town!
Perth will get there in the coming decade 💪
@@leonchn7500😂
Have you been in the M8?
@@KanyeKetchup yep. That tunnel never seems to end!
@@leonchn7500
Errm, I lived in Perth when the first Jurassic Park was released in cinemas and the "pencil" shaped building had R & I on it, the city looks almost the same as it did then...the only visible difference is Elizabeth Quay and the kinda oversized and ugly BHPBilliton building...otherwise the city centre is quite small.
I live in Sydney, and it’s great to see that politicians understand how to make a good city, but I think our bike infrastructure is sort of being ignored
I'm guessing your a houseowner?
looks so cool what you are building. my city is currently planning a tram line to relive the bus network a bit, but planning won't finish before 2030
What percentage of the population use or wish to use a bike to traverse the City? Billion dollar infrastructure projects for those people is simply not worth it.
I live in the UK and have seen multiple Citys spend fortunes adding lanes to roads and extensions to paths for bike users, only for them to hardly be used. It's made worse by the fact that it's paid for by road tax which is paid by car users. Bike riders do not contribute towards the infrastructure they demand.
As a Sydneysider i can confirm that
Which is kinda weird since Sydney has the perfect cycling climate.
I've been with this channel since it’s birth. Amazing how it has been growing! All the best.
I feel like B1M targets almost everything I watch from them at 13-year-olds just getting interested in infrastructure, which is fine but frustrating for me when I want expert analysis, detail and discussion.
Most welcome. Keep watching
Ive been working on the Airport, and Western Metros over the last few years (Civil Engineering). Great project and a lot of fun.
I just wish they had built it north of newcastle aimed out to sea with a high speed rail link rather than aiming the runways at where 4 million people sleep for a 24 hour airport.
@zhye: Do you realize lot of cities in North America and Europe has even bigger airports with heavier traffic? You are NOT special🤦♂️
@@tylerdavidson2400 did you see in this very video where he said Sydney was one of the worst for both?
Also, someone else having it worse doesn't make it better somehow. What kind of fool uses that as a basis for trying to make a point?
We could put the airport here where it won't bother anyone, or we could aim it at where 4 million people sleep.
Hey I found a worse airport somewhere let's do the second one so we can say we are only the second worst that's totally fine!
You sir are very very special.🤦♂️
@@tylerdavidson2400weird flex
I was in Sydney in 1994 .I know darling harbour and Sydney opera house but I ve never know Sydney harbour tunnel is exist
It's neat seeing all those workers hold up their phones to witness the tunnel bore break through, as if The Who was on stage. I'd be proud to be part of historic expansion too.
Those arent really workers you see how clean their shirts are?
They had nothing to do with it, there just the office gronks that try take the glory as they helped
Oh, you think this lot of snobs actually got their hands dirty tunneling... how cute.
As if no one else was recording the exact same thing, including the guy behind recording all of them recording.
Clownworld!
@@DrTubeman They pay your wages meatbag. If you wont do it some cheap import will.
What a fantastic project! Bravo Sydney, the most scenic city👍🥰
I was 14yo when I visited Sydney in 2005 from Kuala Lumpur. Already at the time, Sydney's transit system is very huge and it goes everywhere. The city itself is very nice to walk in. Also, a freaking new airport??? I don't think we heard many Australian megaprojects previously and I'm very sure Sydneysiders are pretty facking excited for these. Congratulations!
Sydney looks like Mumbai now. Multiculturalism has ruined it
Thank you for explaining how the cutter rubble is dealt with. I often wondered
As someone who lives in the hills and works in Chatswood, the stage 1 metro has been life-changing.
Every.single.trip to the office, I’m in awe at the frequency, speed, and how many cars I imagine the metro has displaced.
My annual driving has dropped by 15,000 kilometres.
I hope that after the disruptions, people in the new areas can experience the same top-tier service, carrying Sydney into the future.
(These price tags are massive, but maybe in 30 years, we’ll have a great metro system and be like “$60 billion, lol, lucky we built it then, it'd cost $700 billion if we did it now”)
Nice to hear about the positive impact of such massive investments...
Most people seem to be busy searching hair in the soup.
All the best ✌🏻
I work on this project from the UK and it’s wild to see a video about it!
Wow, what do you do?
@@whophd I work for one of the engineering firms used on this project. Specifically the line for the new airport.
@@JamieCullen Nice nice! I guess I can't ask you about the very-subtly-different loading gauge and voltage on that line hmmm 🙂
@@whophd Loading gauge is the same across all rail systems in Sydney. The voltage is different and the airport line carriages a little wider to accomodate the extra lugguage for airport travellers
so UK underground company helps sydney build its metro networks???
As someone who has lived in Sydney my whole life,I have never seen so much infrastructure project built in the past 7-8 years. The last major project was in 1999 with the m5 airport tunnel. Now we have the M4, M8, West connex,North Connex tunnels and soom m6 tunnel, 2nd Harbour tunnel, New Airport, Barangaroo, new Darling harbour and Fish Market development. This on top of this metro AND light rail project. However all this will only make Sydney even more unafforable
At least it has all that stuff you mentioned
@@KanyeKetchup It's great until you have to move out of the city because you can't afford anything.
I was with you until the last statement. Transport helps affordability, and it’s what you have to build (along with schools and hospitals, and the funding to run them) when your city grows. What is the alternative - only the people within walking distance can work there. Take a look at how the first tram networks changed cities, and allowed people living in the farmland to get jobs in the city. Before that, the only people who worked there were living in expensive homes or slums within walking distance.
Have to move all the Indians around somehow
@@whophd Not in Sydney it doesn't.
Love stuff regarding tunnels ( old and new ) with the why and how of building them and the hurdles along the way. Just a damned fascinating topic. Thanks for uploading!
I find the progress of tunnelling boring.
I kinda dig it.
Im from Melbourne and I see Sydney really has a huge head start on better public transport infrastructure than us. We are currently way behind and bogged down with the unfortunate but necessary level crossing removal projects across the metropolitan area. Well done Sydney.
You guys are getting the metro tunnel next year.
That sounds sensible though.
I think one of the reasons for so-many level-crossing removals in Melbourne is just terrain; Sydney is more lumpy so the line was often higher or lower; which lead-itself to overpasses etc - Brisbane is similar : there are many height differences that even a very long time ago naturally lead-to overpass/underpass situations, but several [expensive] problems remain - like Coopers Plains, yep a plain, and barely above the creek.
The level crossings are necessary in Melbourne, makes a huge difference to flow of traffic and safety. The Metro is also world class and will be finished later this year. Don't forget how much Sydney siders pay in tolls, the most in the world.
you could always come live in hobart - our councils debate using an already established rail line being too expensive to operate light rail on, despite having the worst public transport system in australia
With both Melbourne and Sydney upgrading their public transport all we need now is a good intercity rail link. The Melbourne/Sydney air link is one of the busiest in the world.
Europeans are building train routes that effectively compete with air.
The train that runs now is a relic from 1980s.
And the line it runs on is a relic from the 1890s....🫤
@@RodneyAvery-o2qso true.
It be very expensive to do. They will have to upgrade the track for a fast rail. It is a long way from Sydney to Melbourne. It be lot further than Europe has to only build. It be more like trying to upgrade rail tracks from distance from Rome to Moscow
@@Nathan-ry3yuMelbourne to Sydney is a direct line of 953km. Rome to Moscow is not a direct line, goes through several countries and many different terrains, and is 2,375km.
@@JaneNewAuthor There's always someone who has to look it up. Lol. You Fruitloop. I was stating that as like a metaphor. A figure of speach
Proud to be working on the pitt st station :)
Is that the one they've stupidly decided to name Gadigal Metro? Stupid because Gadigal isn't a specific place within the CBD and doesn't tell patrons anything about the destination, a hallmark of political correctness and pointless handwaving virtue signalling superseding common sense and basic urban transport naming conventions!
I attended the community open day at the Victoria Cross station and it is truly a modern marvel of engineering.
It features the first lift only station access at its Northern end. This is due to the topography of North Sydney and the station needing to be deep so the metro tunnel can go under the harbour to Barangaroo on the south side of Sydney Harbour and also the narrow corner block this entry is located at.
At the southern end of Victoria Cross station it has 3 long escalators to get to the surface.
All the stations are impressive on the new Sydney Metro Station but this one is next level.
I was there too. Very exciting!
wish i knew about that. i work in north sydney not far from the new station so itll be the station i use once it opens. would have loved to have had a peak inside.
and in a power outage nobody can get out of the station
as a wheelchair user, this is cool :) Most stations have a single lift & if it's broken, you're simply told you cannot use that station. When they repair/upgrade the lifts, they take them out of action for 3 months or more at a time before replacing with a single lift. During the entire Wynyard upgrade period, there was no wheelchair access to the station, or reasonable ramp angle access to the bus stops above it either. I used to go into the city a lot, but stopped as a result of that
@@mehere8038 Great feedback.
The lifts at the southern end are pretty quick. You do have to use 2 lifts to exit at the southern entrance of Victoria Cross but if you time it with the lifts ready when you exit the train you can reach Miller street in around 2 minutes from door opening to exiting the station at street level.
Keep in mind - this is being built *in addition* to our existing Sydney Trains suburban rail network, which already has 170 stations on 369kms of track, including several lines that already run through the city. When the Metro lines are all built as well, Sydney will be one of the world's greatest railway cities
The suburban network is overworked and not to mention it's curfew continues to hurt sydney's already very damaged nightlife. So i think the metro will be a welcome addition.
metro really should be double decker though shouldn't it! It's not going to stand the test of time as it is - and even short term it's largely a failure, due to the lack of seating & people travelling long distances not being willing to stand that entire trip everyday & so choosing the car instead
@@mehere8038 No, the metro should be single deck, like every other in the world. This allows more doors, which speeds up boarding and disembarking, especially during peak times when trains are crowded.
@@mehere8038 No - thats not how metro systems function. You need more frequency, low dwell time at stations. The idea is most people also wouldn't be travelling long distances, but thats not something the metro can solve.
no it wont wake up the current metro is fkn trash
I hear Leeds is getting a metro in 2163
Sorry mate, gotta spend more money on London
The State of Railways in the UK is in a terrible state. For the Country that started it all not a good look
Australia is just a proper Inter City Railway away from completely overtaking the UK beyond reach
Comparing Cities like Manchster, Leeds or Birmingham to Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney😂😂. At least we've got London I guess
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@@BLACKSTA361 to be fair the population of those UK cities you've mentioned are much smaller than the Australian ones. Sydney has literally 10x the population of Manchester
@@FizzleDrizzle-th8ru Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure Australian Cities are counted by the Metro Area compared to only the CBD or City limits how others would call it.
Sydney and Melbourne is still far ahead tho even when comparing Metro Area vs Metro Area compared to Greater Manchester or the West Midlands in Size, Population or Transportation tho
I've grown up in Sydney and it's finally connecting it's cities together moving from Strathfield to west, north, south and east will finally be easy
It is still hugely disappointing that the new second airport in Sydney doesn't have a rail or metro connection to the T8 train line to connect easily to the existing Sydney airport. Not to mention the fast growing Sydney greater south west that has rapid suburban growth without rail infastruture missing out.
Well it's not the greatest of areas
@@KanyeKetchup ?? are you not going to use the airport?
It is planned to connect (somewhere there). I suppose they have a reason - cost or planning priorities, or something.
@@KanyeKetchup😂
True. It’s incredible that it’s getting any train at all on Day 1. I love to point out: Sydney and Melbourne are two cities with two airport railways 😜😜
Refreshing to see a city use it’s brain and build the infrastructure it needs in a timely manner
Nope we are 10 years behind
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to be fair this should've been done 10-20 yrs ago as planned, but politics is always holding us behind.
Electric vehicles are making trains obsolete, especially with self driving
@@LegendLength 🤣🤣🤣keep dreaming
Just visited the Victoria Cross Station tunnel on open day.
It is beautifully constructed.
It also is the only station in Australia that has an exit point with no escalators or stairs but a lift only.
An A380 does not weigh 1100 Tonnes, they weight approximately 300 Tonnes. They are also only 73 metres long and not 120 metres. Who incorrectly researched this ?
My friends told me Sydney is one of the best cities they ever saw and they traveled a lot
I need to come visit
It’s amazing and breathtaking 😍🙌🏼
It’s beautiful but bit boring and has no nightlife.
@@tylerdavidson2400hopefully with the lockout law lifted and the rich boring boomers cark it, it will pickup again, back like it used to be in the 80s and 90s!
It’s the BEST. Check out “Coogie” beach and the area around it called “Randwick” when you go there
@@decepticons_destroy I'm in my 20s and go out in Sydney a lot, it's definitely getting it's mojo back. Probably not 90s and 2000s levels yet but much improved from the 2010s
The stations alone deserve their own program - absolutely massive and some effectively sitting below the harbour line. Was hoping BM1 would also include the extensive road tunnel system recently opened which includes the world’s biggest underground interchange.
As a proud Sydney Sider myself, I'm so hyped for the opening of the Sydney Metro North Shore/City Line later this year which will connect to the Northwest line at Chatswood to Sydenham via. The CBD, as it will significantly reduce my commute time into the City.
But it's the extension to Bankstown the Chatswood residents are really looking fwd to!?!
Correction it wont connect to the nw metro. It extends it seamlessly so chatswood is just another stop before the city and beyond. In 2026 it extends to bankstown
Today was the opening of metro city Line. Finally.
“… in the world.”
managed to do your jeremy clarkson impression about 4 times this video 😂
Yep. Every time I see that combination of words, I read it in a Jeremy Clarkson voice.
This was sooo interesting and educational thank you so much
Why don't you mention the diameter of the TBM in your videos. All TBMs seem to have the same weight and length. Diameter is what sets them apart
I live in Melbourne, and am in awe out how Sydney/NSW is able to build massive infrastructure projects without putting the State into generational debt and without the ridiculous cost blow-outs. They can build an airport 35 klms from the city centre, but already have invested in public transport links to connect. Melbourne is still pontificating over an airport rail link 50 years after Tullamarine was devised. All we hear about in Victoria is about our ‘big build’ - which is all essentially PR, whilst other States go quietly, efficiently and economically prudently building their own infrastructure…..grrrrrr
Melbourne can certainly do better.
Sydney gets a shitload more federal funding. Been a problem for Victoria for a long time.
@@sebastians8871 Pigs arse, Sydney has better control of the Unions. The left wing Melbourne Labour party is a Union puppet !!!
Victoria is a Socialist state and NSW is not. That is the difference.
@@sebastians8871 The Metro is being built entirely from NSW coffers. The problems in Victoria is that until very recently most money for transport was directed at roads.
As always very enjoyable 👍
Thanks!
@4:35 Sandstone-eating worms.... or SANDWORMS
*DUNE THEME PLAYS*
LISAN AL GAIB!
Exactly what came to my mind as well. Dune Part II was bloody awesome
As written
The guys at B1M were not subtle!
AS WRITTEN!
Screamers!
The B1M on a Monday? I ain’t mad.
You guys really need an Australian editor.
Victoria Cross had an open day a few weeks ago and there is heaps of better video content of the near complete station.
No-one would refer to Metro West as Stage 2.
Stage 2 is Chatswood - Sydenham, Stage 3 would be Sydenham - Bankstown, and that's just M1.
The Airport West will be next to open so Stage 4 if you say.
And finally if you do this video you should be mentioning the Western Harbour Tunnel as well.
They didn't say the location of this Victoria Cross station, but I gather from the comments it's at North Sydney, maybe replacing the train station there?
@@VanillaMacaron551 Victoria Cross station is in North Sydney but is not replacing the current station. North Sydney will now have two stations. On the south side of Nth Sydney's CBD is North Sydney station which provides access to T1 and T9 Sydney Trains lines. On the north side of Nth Sydney's CBD will be Victoria Cross station which will provide access the M1 Sydney Metro line.
@mark123655
They have already done a separate video on the WHT
Don’t think it really matters mate.
The Airbus A380 weighs about 280,000kg with a take-off weight of 560,000kg. And it is 78m long, so that machine is closer to double length and weight of an A380- I wouldnt call it "about the length and weight of an A380."
thank you. 1,000 ton aircraft? not really
@@matthewkozak7369 Hahaha yeah, 2 of them at full weight is *actually* about 1100T. Its so sad as I like this channel, and I'm not sure what other facts I've remembered from their vids, that may not be correct
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@@RedesCat Did you know the Burj Khalifa is 1700m tall?
0:20 Meanwhile in Washington DC it took 8 years to complete 11 miles of track and 6 new stations for the Silver line extension.
04:50 you say abought the length and weight of an A380, which is partially true, while the A380 is 73 meters but its weight is 'only' 560 tons so HALF the weight so not particularly close
Love your doccos. And this one very close to the heart. My home town.
Sydney’s underground road network that is being built out is something incredible as well
Great video, i live right next to one of the new metro stations opening this year. Will be a game changer
Sydney is leveling up! Though i don't know why i need to go to Chatswood from the Inner West lol but it's nice to have options 🤣
The Chinese need to travel between Chatswoo and Burwoo.
@@68404 And Eastwoo (or are they Korean?)
Still a missing link between E Ping and Chingford. I miss the 80s when we had real diversity of facial features and hair.
Im still waiting for the B1M special of the Rozelle Underground Spaghetti Interchange. Fascinating enough to be one of the world's largest interchanges, but then to have the whole thing underground in an engineering marvel.
Isn't it a ñightmare for residents?
@@anneloving8405 navigating it yes. Exit lanes can be on both sides. Wrong move and you end up somewhere completely different. GPS systems not much help
The photos from the community day at Victoria Cross a few weeks ago looked fantastic
I live in Sydney and can confirm: the Metro will be a massive upgrade, when it's done... eventually...
To get anywhere in the city by car you more or less have to go on a tolled highway, add the cost of those tolls to the cost of our housing, groceries and a bunch of other stuff and yeah... it gets very unaffordable very quickly.
You most definitely don't need to take a toll - you are making that choice. There is always a alternative.
Just catch public transport, or ride a bike? What is affordability anyway? Sydney siders complaining about the cost of living but making zero choices to help them? Oh I stopped buying chocolate or chips though 👏👏 just remember you have so much more than people can dream of here in Sydney and yet you still complain, you still want more, it’s never enough.
I have no money but still appreciate the life we have in this beautiful place. Too many people take it for granted.
@@ssusggus lol ride a bike to visit my grandmother, no worries mate, it's only 50km each way. Oh hey I'll take public transport. 2.5 hours each way. It's so simple!
@@applausenu yes, the alternative of spending 2 hours in traffic instead of 1.
It will be use less to a lot of getting to jobs
As someone who uses the Metro every day and knows the traffic in Sydney this will be AMAZING!
Would love to see your take on the Snowy2 project and the failure to have a slurry tunneling machine, and the subsequent delays
Is it still stuck down there?
@@68404 yeah it is a complete nightmare. It has recently started going again, but with the previous delays and mismanagement and coverups, it will likely be down there for a few years yet
@@68404No, it’s moving again.
Who would have thought?another white elephant project
Who would have thought?another white elephant project
As a person who recently moved to Sydney from the states, this metro is something i wish cities like DC or Philadelphia could do
Both those cities have metros.
both are far worse than sydney's, i lived in DC for 5 years before moving here@@RodneyAvery-o2q
It might rival what you have when its done, but for now… no.
And that harbour-crossing section you describe was just opened today, to much celebration and many joyrides by the public. They say 200,000 people used it today.
“One of the biggest rail projects in the world …” Behind the “Grand Paris Express “ , with the double in length and numbers of stations and half of the costs…
That's why they said "one of the biggest" and not "the biggest".
$64 billion Australian is $42 billion American. The Paris project is up to $39 American. The length of the Paris project is 200 km, which is about 80% longer than the Sydney project. This project also goes under a harbor.
One of means that something belongs to the group of things mentioned, not that it is the lead or first amongst them. Australia is one of the countries in the Southern Hemisphere. Sydney is one of the cities that have hosted the Olympics. The statement “One of the biggest rail projects in the world,” tells us that if one were to compile a list of big rail projects currently happening on the planet then this project would be on it. It doesn’t say it would be the biggest, it would just make the list, or anything else.
Why would you seek to compare them? "2.2 million people live in Paris for a size of 105 km2 whilst 4.8 million people live in Sydney, but it's 155 times bigger (12,144 km2). The population density is 21,369 people/km2 for Paris vs 395 people/km2 for Sydney." These cities are not comparable.
@@jonevansauthor 11 million in Greater Paris.
THANK YOU FOR VIDEO
And the Uk cant build a single railway from london to Birmingham for less than this HS2 costing £66Bn
That’s twice the cost of this.
You can blame our politicians for that! Useless.
Spoiler alert, the Sydney rail project will cost triple than what they are advertising.
Wow what an amazing programme well done to bring this Two Us
What excited railway system in australia at the moment in sydney. I can't wait to go to australia specialist sydney and ride those trains
And thanks again. Please bring more videos like this of building projects. Thank you.
A 2 week holiday will set you back $30,000 AUD
Vancouver is similarly divided by the ocean inlet into North and South. The infrastructure between the two is abysmal. That city badly needs what Sydney is doing.
about damn time, look at singapore, japan and europe
How do they remove the TBM once it has completed the tunnel?
A TBM is assembled kind of like a large LEGO set.
When the tunnelling has been completed they dismantle the TBM piece by piece and lift out all of the pieces.
Sometimes they don't. If site conditions make removal too costly or logistically difficult, they will bore a short spur or extension to the tunnel, and just leave the machine down there.
Lubricant
@@CrankyHermit yes that’s also true. Good mention
Just the cutter head and the shield though, as they are wider than the concrete tunnel rings they place behind them.
The gantrys on the back all get wheeled out and sent away
I swear, Sydney only did this to one up the new city loop project in Melbourne
Cheers from hungary 🎉🎉🎉
I love watching your videos, keep going!
...the tallest steel arch bridge *Jeremy Clarkson's voice" in the world.
I, M in Perth and I Love Sydney. We toured NSW for several years, and we climbed THE BRIDGE of course. God Bless. Nifty J.
And recommendations for a Sydneysider to visit when traveling to Perth?
It's one of biggest rail projects ...IN THE WORLD.
I'm making a bold prediction... it's likely the biggest rail project in the entire solar system! Take that, Martians!
Wtf...
Have you been to new York or London?
That's a bold claim.
I have been working on this prestigious project since last 5 years
This is a bit outdated. Victoria Cross Station is completely finished. I walked all through it 3 weeks ago.
Yeah Victoria Cross is done, with CPB's Gadigal (Pitt St) soon to follow.
If you want to see the original light rail test track . It is located in the CBD of Newcastle. 2.7 klm of rail that goes nowhere.
Where are those 60% of additional people coming from? Aussies aren't making them.
None of your business.
We need people to take care you in aged care, boomer.🤦♂️
It’s so cool to hear you talk about suburbs that us as Sydney Siders know and love but on your channel. So cool to be on the world map! 🎉
The eshay expressway
amazing, people will have more freedon when is done, more places to go..
0:18
Seems like Sydney only has a West side...on all sides.😂
The East side is pretty small. There are some very expensive harbourside suburbs though. There is a plan to extend the Metro West into the Eastern Suburbs (no idea if or when that will happen). They currently have the T4 Eastern Suburbs (heavy rail ) line, the L2 Randwick and L3 Kingsford light rail lines, a limited ferry service, and lots of buses.
Never ceases to amaze me how much I find out about what construction is going on in my home city from your channel ! Keep up the good work as usual 🤓
Gold star for u ⭐️
I'd love for the US to do this, but we are too busy spending on foreign wars that have no benefits to us.
That’s not the reason, the reason is uneven government spending on things that actually matter, instead of extra military spending, transport needs to get more funding, think before you comment.
The fact that the tunnels will total to longer than the Chunnel [ at 6:10 ] really puts it into perspective; and shows how-far tunneling has come in a few short decades.
Last time I was this early, Fred was just a teenager!❤
All we need now is a skyliner or monorail that goes everywhere. And a tunnel under main roads in the city like paramatta rd or extend the cross city tunnel
People from the Sutherland Shire 👁️👄👁️
1:39 You did not mention when Phase 1 began. Did it take one year? Ten years?
Phase 1 took about 8 years. It got actively started when the previous State government came to power in 2011 (had been numerous announcements from the previous government but always followed by cancellation - their pitiful failure to deliver almost any public transport infrastructure was one of the many reasons they were finally kicked out of office in 2011). That NW leg opened in 2019. Phase 2 is the under-harbour route through the city as far as Sydenham. That's in final testing now and is due to open sometime in the next 2-3 months. That one will be a massive game changer. The extension to Bankstown is then due in 2025. Metro West isn't likely now until 2032 (we had another change in State government last year and the new lot ran a load of "reviews" - all of which told them what anyone with half a brain already knew - they were fantastic projects and quite obviously should continue).
@@julianfoster3443I see you're unhappy Labor are in office again.
50 years too late, and it's costing $64BN, that's the same price as a freestanding house in Sydney.
Which other country had underground tunnels to this extent 50 years ago?
@@NervousValuable the viet cong bro. those guys could dig.
The house price is about right though🙄
@@NervousValuableThe London Tube (tunnelling started in 1863)? The GUP Moskovsky Metropoliten (Moscow Metro) (tunnelling started in 1935)? Antwerp Tram lines (tunnelling started in 1963)? Paris Metro (tunnelling started in 1898)?
Sydney Metro opens in 2019.... 50 years too late, and that's not being harsh at all - making 50 years ago, the year 1975.
@@alexd.1091 U just blew my mind
*me watching on the Sydney metro right now* 😮
How to build infrastructure; you plan, start building and continue building.
Do not change your mind part way through and do half a job. Build the skils and culture, no stop start stop bs, don't copy the british.
New to the channel. I really enjoyed this thanks.
please build some fucking houses so i dont have to pay $400 a week for a windowless studio
Where do I get a speedboat like the one @01:14?
MAGNIFIQUE MAGNIFIQUE MAGNIFIQUE !!!
Awesome videos as always
God I love your videos FRED!
Oh Damn, this is the 1st that I have heard of this; what a project!
Australia needs to seriously reduce immigration otherwise the congestion and lack of housing will just get worse and worse.
Or put stricter regulations on outsourcing for major companies forcing them to actually invest into the Australian economy rather than their own pockets.
I love your optimism. If Oz has one defining trait when it comes to infrastructure, it's that projects rarely come in on time and never on budget. It's great that they are making progress but I wouldn't bet the farm on this being ready by 2030.
ah! loved the animation explaining the detail of how the borrowing machine (you said the name 20 times per video and yet I am drawing a blank) how it gets rid of the crushed rock!
as usual, stellar production!
Oh oh also if you ever come about a project that specifically addresses the problem of the movement of tectonic plates (oh no the bridge is too short now) or the sea eating up the shore and solutions in construction, that'd be interesting too!
Australia's $64BN?, NSW.s $64BN?, No it's Sydney's $64BN. somehow the rest of the country and state will do without again and again...
omg NSW is spending their money on their own people, nooo thats not how it works we gotta spend money on some random town in Queensland even though queensland has their own government
Building an extensive metro system has a dramatic impact on any city, normally a very positive impact. I remember back in 2008 when the Beijing metro system was complete and it was astounding. I could travel to almost any location I wanted to go to by metro, while previously I had to use taxi’s or buses. While back in 2000 taxi’s were plentiful and cheap, by 2008 they were getting harder and harder to find, so a metro system really made a difference to me. I expect this metro system will really impact a lot of people in Sydney ion a very positive manner.
Thank you for informing us
With 500k of immigrants coming in each year. Australia is growing too quickly.
Oh dear 🤦♂️ you keep things like that to yourself mate
@@ThomasNichols-z9y why?
@@ThomasNichols-z9y Maybe immigration doesn't effect you from your ivory tower but it effects a lot of ordinary Australian's.
Thank you. That was brilliant.