The thing I like about your vlogs they are different and informative and not in your face, Living in the UK it's great to see what's happening on the other side of the world, You get a lot of vloggers who flood their channel with video's and cover the same old things, well done for being different. Don't forget if a place opens on time someone is up to no good.🤭😇
There will also be an underground connection between Martin place and hunter street stations. Which means you could walk completely underground between Martin place and Barangaroo if you wanted to by 2032
@@gregorygherkins1884 the Underground section (Metro Tunnel) is automated and will have platform screen doors though plus run trains every 2.5min in peak, so it's not that far off.
Very happy and excited to see this new era in train travel occuring not just in Sydney but in Brisbane and Melbourne also. The level and scale of engineering is mind-boggling. A great investment for the community. Thanks for an excellent video!
Thank you so much for this video Adam! I was in Sydney in July for vacation so missed the metro opening unfortunately. I really appreciate how well you covered literally everything I wanted to see!
I live in the US and this feels like a different planet. Amazing what happens when your government invests in its people & future rather than just making a few people a lot richer
Greetings Adam, Ok, here's our 2 cents: We just absolutely love your vids....great commentary, pleasant voice, top notch videography and editing, lovely inclusion of actual data...can't believe you don't have more subs. We watch a bunch of travel vids, but you're our favorite! Only complaint: I know how much work it is to produce content, but more, please! Blessings!
Oh wow - that’s so wonderful to hear. Thank you! Yes, I’d love to produce more videos … I have quite a lot that have been filmed. The hard bit is finding the time to edit them as I work full-time separately from TH-cam.
Hi Adam Where’ve you been? How are you? I am well, glad that the long hot humid summer in Dubrovnik ended a few weeks ago. Bring on winter. I’ve just begun to watch this upload and look forward to seeing it to the end….more comments to follow. I shall finally be returning to Australia and New Zealand next Feb/ March so shall have opportunity to try the new metro as well Stay safe and best wishes Zoltán
Hi Zoltán. I've been well thanks. Yes, there an unexpected gap ... I had almost finished another video when I went to Sydney to ride on the new metro and was so blown away, I decided I had to make this video (and the research for it took a long time). Glad to hear the weather in Croatia is improving ... I'm looking forward to spring in Australia! That's exciting re your visit to Australia/NZ ... hopefully you like the metro as much as I did. All the best!
@@FromtheWindowSeat thanks for the update. I hope you’re well. This upload was great. So much research you have put into presenting this piece. Bravo. Until the next time. Z
As always a very comprehensive & interesting video. I appreciate your candid comments. Thank you for another very professional presentation. My only problem with viewing your uploads is that my travel "Bucket List' keeps expanding😊
I plan to do a full travel on the Metro sometime. I did do a little run from Gadigal to Chatswood and I noticed how much fatser it was than the standard old trains could do speed wise(and also just due to how their routes track wise are much better planned) EDIT: Forgot to mention with the vid, I'm surprised with Barangaroo you forgot to the mention their is a walkway that connects to Wynyard station another big hub rail and bus station in the CBD area. Just a little something you missed.
The original North Shore Line from St Leonards to North Sydney was designed to suit 30 Class suburban steam engines, hence the winding route it takes so as to reduce the gradient as far as possible. Even today it's still the best route for the current electric trains.
That is impressive I must say. Wonder if they did any filming of it to put into a documentary later on talking to the designers, engineers, staff, etc and going in with the boring machines as they went under the city.
I’m sorry, it won’t let me comment but I really wanted to thank him for doing this video. I grew up in Sydney and worked in the city for many years but I am now retired to Queensland and have no reason to come back to the city. I would not recognise all the changes. I’m so happy I got to see this video. 😊😊😊
26.54: I assume you are referring to road traffic on the Harbour Bridge and Harbour Tunnel. The existing North Shore rail line also has the capacity to absorb more passengers (er, "customers") than the road traffic on these two (as also did the former tram line). High density rail lines like this are (or should be) the choice for high density residential and business areas, far more efficient in moving people that roadways. Yet the Roads division of NSW Transport still insists on building more expensive and quite inefficient roads (and too often toll roads), such as the latest road tunnel linking Rozelle with the North Shore.
Thank you. Yes, that makes sense. That ‘fact’ was in some of the government’s media releases but I don’t think it explained the detail it was based on. 🤔
Great video Adam as per usual.This is mind blowing...even the concept of driverless trains...WOW,JUST WOW.Keep up the great work mate it is much appreciated and always informative and enjoyable.❤
Hi Adam, thanks again for another great video and it’s nice to see people talking so positively about new railway infrastructure projects like this. It’s an awesome video. Keep up the great work.
I catch the Metro daily to/from work. Absolutely brilliant. And the stations are beautiful to see after a day's slog at work. Helps you relax in a way. Yours is the best video showcasing the Metro.
@PeterCowan1969TH-camPersonal I don't mind standing at all after sitting for eight hours behind a desk at work. And it only takes 13 minutes to get to my destination.
Very impressive Adam, I recall living in Wahroonga & travelling to Central on the old bone shakers - they took forever. I don't think I would recognize much of Sydney now (30 yrs on). Thanks
By far the best video about the new metro extension. Concise, very well researched and edited and not much talking head. It explains so many aspects of the new section that is easy to comprehend and is to the point .
That's a fantastic tour! Stations are great, and to a European like me they almost feel overbuilt compared to the attendance. Here the soil being a lot more difficult, unstable and waterlogged, stations rarely have such open volumes without buttresses. They also are often overcrowded, like half the volume for twice, or trice (or more) the attendance. I don't remember the names but I particularly like the one with the glass reinforced concrete panels and the one with sandstone textures or patterns on the sides of a very large volume. Though they all are very nice. The only minus I could see is a slight lack of strong diversity, differentiation and bold architecture. There are variations and differences, but they aren't very marked. It's classy, airy and stylish but it's homogeneous and stays within a pretty mild "pleasing-all" architectural spectrum. Though often having radically different styles and architectures on the same line can lead to very strong feelings from the public about the wildly different, bold, and sometimes divise, styles and architectures. Here the new stations, or those under construction, are extremely varied in style, materials, lighting, volume, and overall architecture. Some stations are darker with direct light beams, some have bright diffuse atmosphere, others look like a grotto or are covered in brushed metal... Parts of the public will absolutely love certain stations and loathe others due to the radical differences, etc. Anyway, Sydney Metro looks great and efficient. Greetings from Paris!
Thank you! They’re all built for future growth … many of the overstation and surrounding developments are not yet complete and compared to Europe, Australian cities are not very dense, so there’s scope for that too. I’m guessing you meant either Victoria Cross or Gadigal (in terms of the glass reinforced concrete panels) and Barangaroo (sandstone panels) … each impressive in their own way. Yes, I take your point. I think they wanted some consistency between stations on the line but they do each have a distinctive feel that perhaps isn’t as clear on camera. All the best!
@@FromtheWindowSeat Sure, the differences are visible. It was just compared to what I'm more used to, when, here, they are doing radically different stations on new lines or extensions, so much that if the consistent signage and "furniture" weren't there, you could think you were in a different city. It's a different approach : variations and distinctiveness combined with strong consistency is certainly more consensual when done right, and it's been done right in Sydney Metro. Here, it's basically one duo of architect and artist per station, almost all unique and some bold, extremely distinctive architecture, colors, materials, lighting, etc. The underground geology being a mess all over the place, the surface geometry of station sites being pretty much all different, and the neighborhoods being all different, they wouldn't benefit from economies of scale. So they went for very different et unique architectures for all underground stations and some of the very few surface elevated ones. It's great that in Sydney they've built for future growth, cause here I'm getting worried about the ginormous expansion currently under construction being maybe too constrained, as they've already revised the expected daily ridership of the expansion itself from 2 to over 3 million daily passengers. And, one of the new stations that opened in late June, which currently only serves one line (the other line will begin opening in 2026 or 2027), already reached 30k daily passengers (and growing), which is a 50% larger attendance than what was expected only 3 months after opening... Years ago, many criticized the project, saying it is pharaonic and oversized ; but now it seems that the "future proofing" may end up being nothing more than "present proofing". So, it's great that Sydney Metro was built with future growth in mind.
We are fortunate in Sydney that most of our soil is excellent sandstone - makes tunnelling easy, although tunneling under Sydney harbour was a challenge!
Thank you! I had almost finished another video when I went to Sydney to ride on the new metro and was so blown away, I decided I had to make this video (and the research for it took a long time). :-)
Meantime in Melbourne, we are still waiting on the airport rail link. We are so behind Sydney it’s embarrassing. We have a state government that panders to the unions and the bus companies and the city link toll company.
We haven't even electrified my neck of the woods (Melton and Whyndam lines) yet. And i doubt we'll be getting that until well into the latter half of this century, as part of the 'SRL West' section. I'm not holding my breath for the 'Metro Tunnel 2' either.
That was very interesting Adam...Lots of very interesting info you provided!!! Just wondering are there washrooms at all of the stations? Hopefully I can check this out when I visit...
@@FromtheWindowSeat I am fairly sure there are, and unlike U.K. and much of Europe you don't have to "spend a penny" to go - actually 40p at Blackpool according to this video: th-cam.com/video/KeBjCV1g4kU/w-d-xo.html "My First Time on the Blackpool Trams!". It's at 8.40 on that video if you don't want to watch all of it (and the loo doesn't appear to take credit cards!!).
Nice video, Adam. I am particularly impressed that they are driverless trains. This means that unions can’t call a strike at Christmas or holiday times. Hopefully they will extend this to the whole Sydney Metro area!
There has already been strike action on the new Metro line, as whilst train operation may be autonomous it is still dependent on human supervisors, controllers and staff.
Your dreaming it will never happen. Too many people will protest because they don't want their high Capacity double deck trains replaced by this Privatised, Single Deck, Low Capacity, Uncomfortable Metro.
7:30-7:55 Wait, hold on. So they’re going to shut down all of those stations along that mentioned line for a whole YEAR, and convert them into Metro stations?! Isn’t that going to disrupt people getting to and from destinations? Wow, honestly I’m shocked by this whole system and how it works. 😮
Yes.. but it's a small amount of pain for an eventual gain. Both for those on the current T3 who will benefit from much greater frequency and a reduced journey time. And for those on the existing T2 and T8 lines who will be able to get more trains and better frequency thanks to removing the T3 from the city circle.
@@mark123655 well I guess that makes sense, making it better for people. The amount I’ve been through Town Hall and it being so congested on the platforms, I was always worried that someone might fall onto the tracks due to overcrowding. So I am glad that they’re extending the Metro line to places that are most impacted by transport.
Bankstown line should not be being converted to metro in my opinion it already recieves frequent services, its been good enough for so long why waste millions on tax payes money just for a fancy driverless train
@@jaydenwisemantel4167 Four trains per hour off peak at stations like Wiley Park and Lakemba - that is not frequent.. Will become 12 trains per hour off-peak under metro. Good enough is not good enough when the city circle is at capacity and provides no room for growth. This changes provides capacity for what was T3 as well as T2 and T8
@@MaxS-hn8we The Metro West will run at 130kmh so even faster, dunno if people will think the ride quality is better or worse then but I dont really mind too much as long as I get to where I wanna go quickly & reliably. But I hadn't noticed the ride quality being any worse than the double deckers at the same speeds.
Keep trying to convince everyone that this Privatised, Low seating capacity, Metro Crap is good. It's absolutely NOT. Sydney double deck trains absolutely shit all over this Metro garbage in terms of seating capacity & comfort.
This is one of the best videos I have seen on the Sydney Metro. A great job, great research.
That’s so good to hear - thanks Norman!
The thing I like about your vlogs they are different and informative and not in your face, Living in the UK it's great to see what's happening on the other side of the world, You get a lot of vloggers who flood their channel with video's and cover the same old things, well done for being different.
Don't forget if a place opens on time someone is up to no good.🤭😇
I’m really happy to hear that - thank you! I lived in the UK for 5 years and still miss it. Particularly the London Tube.
Hi Adam, you never disappoint with you excellent high class productions
I’m really pleased to hear that - thank you!
Wow. That is amazing. Many thanks. As a single "oldie" who lives alone in Brisbane, It gave me a good concept of the great progress that is happening.
I’m really happy to hear that. Thank you!
There will also be an underground connection between Martin place and hunter street stations. Which means you could walk completely underground between Martin place and Barangaroo if you wanted to by 2032
Oh that’s awesome. Thanks for sharing!
An excellent presentation. The commentary is well researched and presented
Thanks so much Graham.
I wish the Melbourne metro would be this cool
Theoretically it’s not a Metro despite the name….it’s an addition to the suburban rail network…..but it will be fantastic
Aren’t they building new stations in Melbourne?
@@Zergcerebrates They're not as pretty or as many or automated
Will certainly be interesting to compare.
@@gregorygherkins1884 the Underground section (Metro Tunnel) is automated and will have platform screen doors though plus run trains every 2.5min in peak, so it's not that far off.
Very happy and excited to see this new era in train travel occuring not just in Sydney but in Brisbane and Melbourne also. The level and scale of engineering is mind-boggling.
A great investment for the community. Thanks for an excellent video!
Yes - good points! And thank you!
Thank you so much for this video Adam! I was in Sydney in July for vacation so missed the metro opening unfortunately. I really appreciate how well you covered literally everything I wanted to see!
Yes, I was in Sydney in July too in the hope it would be open by then … so had to return in August to check it out. Cheers!
I will be saving this for an evening with my partner. We absolutely love binging your videos. Keep it up!
Wonderful to hear. Hope you enjoy it! 🥰
I live in the US and this feels like a different planet. Amazing what happens when your government invests in its people & future rather than just making a few people a lot richer
Agreed. ☺️
4:05 I'm Sydney Metro's Residential Number 1 'Driver'
That is kool
Great gig if you can get it! 🤩
Greetings Adam,
Ok, here's our 2 cents:
We just absolutely love your vids....great commentary, pleasant voice, top notch videography and editing, lovely inclusion of actual data...can't believe you don't have more subs. We watch a bunch of travel vids, but you're our favorite!
Only complaint: I know how much work it is to produce content, but more, please!
Blessings!
Oh wow - that’s so wonderful to hear. Thank you!
Yes, I’d love to produce more videos … I have quite a lot that have been filmed. The hard bit is finding the time to edit them as I work full-time separately from TH-cam.
Hi Adam
Where’ve you been? How are you?
I am well, glad that the long hot humid summer in Dubrovnik ended a few weeks ago. Bring on winter.
I’ve just begun to watch this upload and look forward to seeing it to the end….more comments to follow. I shall finally be returning to Australia and New Zealand next Feb/ March so shall have opportunity to try the new metro as well
Stay safe and best wishes
Zoltán
Hi Zoltán. I've been well thanks. Yes, there an unexpected gap ... I had almost finished another video when I went to Sydney to ride on the new metro and was so blown away, I decided I had to make this video (and the research for it took a long time). Glad to hear the weather in Croatia is improving ... I'm looking forward to spring in Australia! That's exciting re your visit to Australia/NZ ... hopefully you like the metro as much as I did. All the best!
@@FromtheWindowSeat thanks for the update. I hope you’re well. This upload was great. So much research you have put into presenting this piece. Bravo. Until the next time. Z
Thank you for the terrific work in putting this excellent video together.
Hi Christopher. Thank you! 🙏
As always a very comprehensive & interesting video. I appreciate your candid comments. Thank you for another very professional presentation. My only problem with viewing your uploads is that my travel "Bucket List' keeps expanding😊
Thanks so much Dennis! Ha - that’s a good problem to have in my view. 😝
I plan to do a full travel on the Metro sometime.
I did do a little run from Gadigal to Chatswood and I noticed how much fatser it was than the standard old trains could do speed wise(and also just due to how their routes track wise are much better planned)
EDIT: Forgot to mention with the vid, I'm surprised with Barangaroo you forgot to the mention their is a walkway that connects to Wynyard station another big hub rail and bus station in the CBD area.
Just a little something you missed.
Nice. Thanks for letting me know!
The original North Shore Line from St Leonards to North Sydney was designed to suit 30 Class suburban steam engines, hence the winding route it takes so as to reduce the gradient as far as possible. Even today it's still the best route for the current electric trains.
@@ktipuss Interesting. Thanks for sharing! 😊
You should do Metro Tunnel here in Melbourne when it opens next year
That’s would be good!
Did a full ride from front of the train in 4K at the opening day on my channel it’s a great ride feels like a roller coaster when at the front
Awesome! Cheers!
Truly an impressive station breakdown, one that really does the Metro justice. Keen to see what else you create in future months.
Awesome. Thank you!
Always very interesting Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video im happy your back i have missed your videos
Thanks so much … happy to be back! 😊
Thanks!
Wow - thank you!
That is impressive I must say. Wonder if they did any filming of it to put into a documentary later on talking to the designers, engineers, staff, etc and going in with the boring machines as they went under the city.
It certainly is impressive! If you check out @TransportVlog you’ll find interviews with project managers and staff etc that should help.
They did. I think it aired on SBS. th-cam.com/video/yr8ykkGOpCc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=OW28V2UqlokglClX
long time no see, happy to see u back to Australia
I’m sorry, it won’t let me comment but I really wanted to thank him for doing this video. I grew up in Sydney and worked in the city for many years but I am now retired to Queensland and have no reason to come back to the city. I would not recognise all the changes. I’m so happy I got to see this video. 😊😊😊
Yes, there was a bit of a gap but thankfully back on track. Thanks!
26.54: I assume you are referring to road traffic on the Harbour Bridge and Harbour Tunnel. The existing North Shore rail line also has the capacity to absorb more passengers (er, "customers") than the road traffic on these two (as also did the former tram line).
High density rail lines like this are (or should be) the choice for high density residential and business areas, far more efficient in moving people that roadways. Yet the Roads division of NSW Transport still insists on building more expensive and quite inefficient roads (and too often toll roads), such as the latest road tunnel linking Rozelle with the North Shore.
Thank you. Yes, that makes sense. That ‘fact’ was in some of the government’s media releases but I don’t think it explained the detail it was based on. 🤔
Great video Adam as per usual.This is mind blowing...even the concept of driverless trains...WOW,JUST WOW.Keep up the great work mate it is much appreciated and always informative and enjoyable.❤
That’s so good to hear. Thank you Louise. Yes, it certainly blew my mind. In a good way! 😊
Hi Adam, thanks again for another great video and it’s nice to see people talking so positively about new railway infrastructure projects like this. It’s an awesome video. Keep up the great work.
Hi Glen. Thank you! Yes, hopefully this project helps demonstrate the value of investing in public transport instead of more roads.
I catch the Metro daily to/from work. Absolutely brilliant. And the stations are beautiful to see after a day's slog at work. Helps you relax in a way.
Yours is the best video showcasing the Metro.
I’m very jealous … I’d love to have a metro system like this where I live. That’s great to hear - thank you!
How can a system where most people have to stand, be good?
@@PeterCowan1969TH-camPersonal If you’re only on it for a short time, then it’s fine.
@PeterCowan1969TH-camPersonal I don't mind standing at all after sitting for eight hours behind a desk at work. And it only takes 13 minutes to get to my destination.
Very impressive Adam, I recall living in Wahroonga & travelling to Central on the old bone shakers - they took forever. I don't think I would recognize much of Sydney now (30 yrs on). Thanks
Thanks so much!
By far the best video about the new metro extension. Concise, very well researched and edited and not much talking head. It explains so many aspects of the new section that is easy to comprehend and is to the point .
Wow - thank you! I’m really pleased that the research on this one paid off.
Gadigal is the prettiest station by far,.
Yes, fair call. I think Barangaroo is also beautiful but perhaps that's more for the view from outside.
Another fabulously informative video - thank you! Barangaroo was top of my list because of the lovely natural sandstone and Gadigal a close second.
Thanks so much! Yes, Barangaroo is beautiful … a worthy contender!
Well documented my friend
Thanks so much!
I was just on the metro solid 9/10 tbh
Nice!
Very impressive video! Any information about train fares?
Standard Opal fares apply
transportnsw.info/tickets-opal/opal/fares-payments/adult-fares
All the new stations are gorgeous but Martin place station is the best
Agreed!
Such a great day, thanks for such a great video!
Thanks Matthew! I imagine you spotted yourself at Waterloo. I should have said hello but was too shy. ☺️
Do you know how fast the train is going when the last carriage clears the platform?
I’m afraid not but it’s a very decent speed.
@@FromtheWindowSeat thanks
Adam. Top piece of production.
Thank you Graham!
That's a fantastic tour!
Stations are great, and to a European like me they almost feel overbuilt compared to the attendance.
Here the soil being a lot more difficult, unstable and waterlogged, stations rarely have such open volumes without buttresses.
They also are often overcrowded, like half the volume for twice, or trice (or more) the attendance.
I don't remember the names but I particularly like the one with the glass reinforced concrete panels and the one with sandstone textures or patterns on the sides of a very large volume.
Though they all are very nice.
The only minus I could see is a slight lack of strong diversity, differentiation and bold architecture.
There are variations and differences, but they aren't very marked. It's classy, airy and stylish but it's homogeneous and stays within a pretty mild "pleasing-all" architectural spectrum.
Though often having radically different styles and architectures on the same line can lead to very strong feelings from the public about the wildly different, bold, and sometimes divise, styles and architectures.
Here the new stations, or those under construction, are extremely varied in style, materials, lighting, volume, and overall architecture. Some stations are darker with direct light beams, some have bright diffuse atmosphere, others look like a grotto or are covered in brushed metal...
Parts of the public will absolutely love certain stations and loathe others due to the radical differences, etc.
Anyway, Sydney Metro looks great and efficient.
Greetings from Paris!
Thank you! They’re all built for future growth … many of the overstation and surrounding developments are not yet complete and compared to Europe, Australian cities are not very dense, so there’s scope for that too. I’m guessing you meant either Victoria Cross or Gadigal (in terms of the glass reinforced concrete panels) and Barangaroo (sandstone panels) … each impressive in their own way. Yes, I take your point. I think they wanted some consistency between stations on the line but they do each have a distinctive feel that perhaps isn’t as clear on camera. All the best!
@@FromtheWindowSeat Sure, the differences are visible.
It was just compared to what I'm more used to, when, here, they are doing radically different stations on new lines or extensions, so much that if the consistent signage and "furniture" weren't there, you could think you were in a different city.
It's a different approach : variations and distinctiveness combined with strong consistency is certainly more consensual when done right, and it's been done right in Sydney Metro.
Here, it's basically one duo of architect and artist per station, almost all unique and some bold, extremely distinctive architecture, colors, materials, lighting, etc.
The underground geology being a mess all over the place, the surface geometry of station sites being pretty much all different, and the neighborhoods being all different, they wouldn't benefit from economies of scale. So they went for very different et unique architectures for all underground stations and some of the very few surface elevated ones.
It's great that in Sydney they've built for future growth, cause here I'm getting worried about the ginormous expansion currently under construction being maybe too constrained, as they've already revised the expected daily ridership of the expansion itself from 2 to over 3 million daily passengers.
And, one of the new stations that opened in late June, which currently only serves one line (the other line will begin opening in 2026 or 2027), already reached 30k daily passengers (and growing), which is a 50% larger attendance than what was expected only 3 months after opening...
Years ago, many criticized the project, saying it is pharaonic and oversized ; but now it seems that the "future proofing" may end up being nothing more than "present proofing".
So, it's great that Sydney Metro was built with future growth in mind.
We are fortunate in Sydney that most of our soil is excellent sandstone - makes tunnelling easy, although tunneling under Sydney harbour was a challenge!
My favourite Metro station is Barangaroo
A shame the metro tunnels were built 48cm short to ever convert to double deck operation
Looks like Singapore
Cheers!
Good to see you back!
Thank you! I had almost finished another video when I went to Sydney to ride on the new metro and was so blown away, I decided I had to make this video (and the research for it took a long time). :-)
Meantime in Melbourne, we are still waiting on the airport rail link. We are so behind Sydney it’s embarrassing. We have a state government that panders to the unions and the bus companies and the city link toll company.
Yes, the airport link is desperately needed. At least you have the Metro Tunnel coming.
I’m desperate for Melbourne to get a rail link. Sydney’s SECOND international airport opens in 2026 with a driverless metro from day 1.
We haven't even electrified my neck of the woods (Melton and Whyndam lines) yet. And i doubt we'll be getting that until well into the latter half of this century, as part of the 'SRL West' section. I'm not holding my breath for the 'Metro Tunnel 2' either.
Long time, no see !
Very impressive and well photographed.. It will be interesting to see how Melbourne compares !
Thanks so much! Yes, very keen to check out Melbourne's Metro Tunnel when it opens next year.
Very interesting and informative video.
Thank you!
Looks a lot like Elizabeth Line
I’ve only seen videos of the Elizabeth line but yes that’s true.
That was very interesting Adam...Lots of very interesting info you provided!!! Just wondering are there washrooms at all of the stations?
Hopefully I can check this out when I visit...
Thanks Harry. I didn’t specifically check but from what I saw there were toilets at every station.
@@FromtheWindowSeat I am fairly sure there are, and unlike U.K. and much of Europe you don't have to "spend a penny" to go - actually 40p at Blackpool according to this video: th-cam.com/video/KeBjCV1g4kU/w-d-xo.html "My First Time on the Blackpool Trams!". It's at 8.40 on that video if you don't want to watch all of it (and the loo doesn't appear to take credit cards!!).
the sydney metro looks like a HUGE airport people mover. all buildings constructed over sydney metro stations should be one floor taller than planned.
Oh, why is that?
Nice video, Adam. I am particularly impressed that they are driverless trains. This means that unions can’t call a strike at Christmas or holiday times. Hopefully they will extend this to the whole Sydney Metro area!
There has already been strike action on the new Metro line, as whilst train operation may be autonomous it is still dependent on human supervisors, controllers and staff.
The driverless trains are great but as Matthew says, staff are still needed in other roles.
They also get stuck for a couple hours 😅
@@_peepyopee Eek - that wouldn’t be fun!
Your dreaming it will never happen. Too many people will protest because they don't want their high Capacity double deck trains replaced by this Privatised, Single Deck, Low Capacity, Uncomfortable Metro.
The problem is the airport train ticket prices
Fair enough.
7:30-7:55
Wait, hold on. So they’re going to shut down all of those stations along that mentioned line for a whole YEAR, and convert them into Metro stations?! Isn’t that going to disrupt people getting to and from destinations?
Wow, honestly I’m shocked by this whole system and how it works. 😮
Yes, that's right. They're introducing high frequency buses during that time and Bankstown line commuters will get free travel during this time.
Yes.. but it's a small amount of pain for an eventual gain.
Both for those on the current T3 who will benefit from much greater frequency and a reduced journey time.
And for those on the existing T2 and T8 lines who will be able to get more trains and better frequency thanks to removing the T3 from the city circle.
@@mark123655 well I guess that makes sense, making it better for people. The amount I’ve been through Town Hall and it being so congested on the platforms, I was always worried that someone might fall onto the tracks due to overcrowding. So I am glad that they’re extending the Metro line to places that are most impacted by transport.
Bankstown line should not be being converted to metro in my opinion it already recieves frequent services, its been good enough for so long why waste millions on tax payes money just for a fancy driverless train
@@jaydenwisemantel4167 Four trains per hour off peak at stations like Wiley Park and Lakemba - that is not frequent..
Will become 12 trains per hour off-peak under metro.
Good enough is not good enough when the city circle is at capacity and provides no room for growth. This changes provides capacity for what was T3 as well as T2 and T8
Why is the ride quality so bad? Even the oldest Tube carriages aren't so irritatingly jiggly.
I’m not sure. I didn’t notice.
I found it pretty smooth. It does go 100kmh though.
@@MaxS-hn8we The Metro West will run at 130kmh so even faster, dunno if people will think the ride quality is better or worse then but I dont really mind too much as long as I get to where I wanna go quickly & reliably. But I hadn't noticed the ride quality being any worse than the double deckers at the same speeds.
I can't ride the new metro due to anxiety of being in tunnels. It affects a lot of the travelling public
Don't watch these videos then.
You'll be able to from Sydenham to Bankstown in late 2025
What about elevators?
That sounds tough. As others say, at least the new Bankstown section will be above ground so hopefully you can try that. 🙂
Keep trying to convince everyone that this Privatised, Low seating capacity, Metro Crap is good. It's absolutely NOT. Sydney double deck trains absolutely shit all over this Metro garbage in terms of seating capacity & comfort.
To each their own, I guess. But it was the stations themselves that impressed me the most.