8:10 I find it very odd how Liverpool with a population of 255k (compared to Parramatta with 269k) has been neglected with train upgrades, has no Metro, and no direct connections to the WSA. I recently had to commute to the WSA from the outer suburbs of Liverpool and it took me almost 5 hours to get to work via public transport, and the same amount of time to WALK THERE the next day.
Blacktown too, it's projected to hit 620k residents in 20 or so years. That's over half a million people, and no plans whatsoever for any PT investment.
I'd agree about Liverpool services. The only improvements since I was a kid are the T5 services, and the recent restoration of the faster City via Regents Park Line. Plus services are now about 10% slower than in the single deck days. There was a proposal for the line south from Liverpool to have some services turn into the airport line between Casula and Glenfield, but that was put off by the logistics facility and competing services from Campbelltown (IIRC). Are you aware Liverpool will have direct bus links when the airport, like, actually opens? One route via Elizabeth Dr and the other via Bringelly Rd. And a possible third via an upgraded 15th Av. As most people live west of Liverpool's CBD, they are likely to be able to board somewhere en-route to the airport for a shorter trip. So, you were expecting to get public transport to an airport that isn't yet open?? Wow! There are actually some services to there, but probably not at times you would like. Where were you? WSI airport, Bringelly, Badgerys Creek and Luddenham, ARE Liverpool's outer suburbs. I know the area very well, grew up there, lived there, worked there, etc.. Worst situation - Even if you needed to walk from, say, a middle suburb like Austral all the way there, it's about 13 to 14 km. I'm in my seventies and I can still do that distance on that sort of ground in about 2.5 hours, weather permitting.
I would like to see the completion of the Maldon Donbarton line. As western Sydney expands, it will become more and more important for people from Wollongong to have this connection.
Great video! Here's my pie-in-the-sky dream more about HST being the final link in a HST-heavy rail-Metro-Light Rail networks, based on my time in Europe and Sydney's recent embrasure of serious tunnelling: 1. Sydney Central: A simple terminus feeding a HST line to a key interchange at Parramatta (see next), and then onto Sydney Western Airport (see 3). 2. Parramatta Central: This runs under the Parramatta suburban rail, and Metro in a north-south direction with an east-west line connecting Sydney Central to Sydney Western Airport. It'll provide an internal connection to fill in the irritating gap between the Metro and suburban rail networks. 3. Western Sydney Airport: Think Schipol or Frankfurt etc. Jump off a flight, clear security/customs, and then dive downstairs to a HST north-south service. Th curves in an arc to link up with the main Parramatta north-south Shinkansen around Mooney-Mooney and Campbelltown respectively. If you look at the first map in this video, you'll see Parramatta lies on a north-south axis that runs Campbelltown to Mooney-Mooney in virtually a straight line. Consider this the start of the Sydney - Newcastle - Port Macquarie - Coffs Harbour - Grafton - Balina - Tweed Heads/Coolangatta - Surfers - Brissie - Noosa service north. And then the Sydney - Moss Vale (with alternative Wollongong branch line) - Goulburn- Canberra - Albury/Wagga - Melbourne line south. Alternative connections to places I've left off due to space (no offence meant in any omissions. Consider this then the spine of Sydney rail operations and zone areas, and design suburban infrastructure accordingly. Take it from there - just DON'T FORGET to include a monorail...All the best towns have one: Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook... 😉 😂
Great video, its pretty similar to a plan I made myself. I would like to see paramatta station become like central station with 5-6 different lines running through it in addition to intercity and regional trains. It would boost the plans for paramatta to be the second CBD attracting developers to build more office and apartment skyscrapers.
Despite the customers seeing it thus, TfNSW refuses to see heavy rail and light rail as complementary services. Consequently they fail to include light rail routes on the trains and metro maps. At least they are good enough to include in the Trip Planner service so perhaps one day...
I would also consider a maldon-dombarton rail link, after the Thirroul to Waterfall tunnel. This would allow a lot of freight to leave the south coast line and it could be double tracked and even have passenger rail given direct access to Western Sydney for those who live in Wollongong. Relieving congestion on the South Coast line and improving reliability.
I feel like the airport metro was a huge missed opportunity to also build a freight bypass network running along the spine of the greater west from Campbelltown to a 2nd Hawkesbury crossing to the central coast via Badgerys Creek, and a western line junction at St Marys. This along with an extension of the freight line from Chullora to connect with the line at Badgerys creek would pull almost all freight trains off the Sydney trains network, thus freeing up capacity for extra services and making metro conversions or late night service actually possible. right now any freight from the central tablelands to Chullora or the ports and Melbourne-Brisbane freight has to use the heavily congested Parramatta to Homebush corridor
Always love a good crayon-on-a-map video! I'm especially interested in the Norwest-to-Miranda proposal (although I'm a little skeptical it'll ever get built, with how much tunelling it'll need). Its benefits as an orbital transfer line relative to the current CBD, and a central north-south spine relative to Paramatta, make it one of the most valuable lines in the plans IMO. Does anyone know why it's planned to go through Kogarah? Seems like Hurstville would allow a shorter/cheaper tunnel and more convenient transfers, especially for people coming from the south. I'm also curious about the practicalities of the converted heavy rail segment in the middle - how does it fit into the triangle at Sefton while staying grade-separated from the goods line? How will the far-future Bankstown station work?
Very solid ideas, the only other idea i'd love to see somehow getting built (thought it would be low priority) is finding a way to extend a line to Camden (T8 perhaps?), however if the Western Sydney Airport Metro did have a stop at Narellan, it could instead run frequent bus services between the two suburbs to slowly decrease some car dependancy in that region of Sydney over time . Other than that, love the proposed ideas and hope for a future where a bunch of these lines get built.
WSI to Campbelltown/Macarthur already has 2 station locations reserved, Oran Park and Narellan. There needs to be additional stops at Harrington Park and either Narellan Vale, Spring Farm or Mount Annan (or ideally 2 of those 3). It also would have both pros and cons as to whether it terminates at Macarthur or Campbelltown. I believe that M is the current plan however either would be good for train connections (including the Southern Highlands and Canberra line), C-town would be better for the XPT and future HSR, and more buses currently go to C-town than Macarthur. Oran Park is expanding north and by 2040 will be completely filled in to create continuous suburbia from Mount Annan to Bradfield including both sides of The Northern Road. So absolutely needs 2 stations between Oran Park and Bradfield, located at Bringelly and a midpoint between Bringelly and OP.
I've always thought a Northern Beaches line ought to tunnel under Pittwater and connect to the North Coast line. I imagine it would be a shorter trip from the City to the Central Coast that way, and perhaps make it more financially feasible than hoping for car-addicted Northern Beaches residents to use a Northern Beaches-only line.
I don't think the Northern Beaches are car addicted for the most part. The car addicts are a minority and most people are begging for better public transport...and others just leave the beaches. It's the same story for eastern suburbs people...except they have it a little better.
I would suggest amended versions to two of the proposed railway lines. Firstly if the WSA metro line Bradfield is extended to Leppington, this should be extended along the current railway line to Glenfield, which would be the major interchange with railway network. This would remove the need for separate line to Campbelltown. It is unlikely both metro lines from Bradfield will be built due to high cost & this provides benefits to both regions. Secondly, I would build Metro tunnel from Metro West line near Nth Strathfield to join T8 line at Wolli Creek or Turella & then convert Airport line to Metro - with stations at Strathfield, Canterbury/Campsie & Enfield. This would allow trains from Westmead, Parramatta, Olympic Park & Strathfield to travel down Metro West line & then run to Airport & T4 line at Wolli Creek. This would better connect Airport & southern Sydney to Western, SW & NW Sydney.
Really appreciate your vision for the future railways. China has surpassed every expectation of railway and the design and production process. Australia deserves the railway network across the cities and regions and rural communities.
The simple answer is that they shouldn't. There is an entire state outside of Sydney, which should take priority for a while, for a change. Us ignored poor cousins would also like decent public transport.
This is a poor argument. Everything has to be relative to scale, and regional NSW doesn’t have the scale to support this whereas Sydney desperately needs it. Sydney can have these and regional NSW can have buses. Easy peasy.
Hm about extending the Leppington line to WSA as Sydney Trains, I remember reading somewhere, maybe in the WSA metro EIS, that they expected the two airports to operate independently with very few passengers transferring between the two. That’s why the previous plan was for the Leppington-Glenfield section to be converted to metro and connected up with WSA metro.
I personally think the wsi metro would do better going to only MacArthur instead of both. It’s a quick fix to just change where the regional trains and whatever stop. You could provide the argument that more busses terminate at Campbelltown, but more common than not they do a loop via macarthur square and station. It’s also just a more desirable place to terminate instead of Campbelltown which feels a little more unsafe..
Interesting, I think Bondi Junction to Bondi Beach but with a loop taking in more North and or South should be a priority and can be justified by the areas dense population , Cheers
5:21 “Sans Souci”, Aussies try very hard never to sound French. So it’s “Sands”. In that area is a Beauchamp Street - and it’s not Bow-shom or Byoo-sham, but, incredibly, Beach-him.
A mt druit area station on the wsa metro would be better in emerton, it could be built where the old shopping centre is and the land would be far cheaper to acquire than ropes crossing, there's alsa larger population in that area of mt druitt so more people would benefit from it. Ropes crossing could be serviced with bus transit lanes along forester road to st marys. The extension should also go north west towards Windsor, Richmond and north Richmond after interchange with tallawong, the existing Hawkesbury line could convert to light rail between schofields and Windsor.
Extend that line all the way south to the border and possibly connected with the Bairnsdale V line in Victoria. Stops include Jervis bay, Ulladulla, Batemans bay, Bega, Eden etc...
The Trip Planner shows how useless the L4 Parramatta light rail is. For journeys to Epping, you are better off catching the 550. CBD bound Telopea residents are better off travelling the L4 to Parramatta than heading for Epping.
if tracing rail lines on openstreetmap is significant effort would it be worth just using openrailwaymap(with the background set to mapnik color) or does that cause too much clutter by showing spurs and shunting yards
Priority no1, and the cheapest, Bondi Jct to the beach. It should have been done before the Olympics, but the residents were too entitled and stupid to realise the advantages of this extension.
good stuff, looking foward to the freight and high speed videos too as politically difficult as it is i think a lot of areas could be made at or above grade instead of in tunnels needing to clear out large areas of low density housing is just an opportunity to improve the area with transport oriented development
TH-cam is a great place, even the correct place, for these kinds of crazy “wet dream” maps haha. What I’d love to see (or even make myself, but much more practical to Patreon or Ko-Fi someone else for it) is a history of all the aborted plans since 1835, or even 1935.
What in the hell are you talking about??? The Sydney Metro Northwest section has significantly improved the bus network in Sydney’s Region 4. Since 2019, Sydney’s Region 4 bus network has become: - more reliable (as buses are less likely to be delayed due to M2 traffic demand) - The 665 bus route between Rouse Hill and Parramatta operates with a high frequency - Frequency on other core key bus routes between The Hills District and Parramatta operate at a higher frequency - The bus routes in Region 4 generally now connect with the Metro or Sydney Trains stations - Services during non peak times have improved TfNSW has been using the Sydney Metro to improve the quality of service can deliver through its bus network.
@ I guess I am talking from experience as I have lived along the Cherrybrook to Tallawong Metro corridor for the last 20 years. The bus services in this corridor has been improving considerably, but in the mid to late 2000s, it would have taken over an hour to get from Cherrybrook Metro station to Norwest/Bella Vista Metro stations in the morning. Why? All the frequent express bus services were city bound. By the mid 2010s, most of the frequent express bus services between The Hills District and the CBD were becoming overcrowded in peak hours. The commuter demand had outstripped supply. In the morning, sometimes the buses were forming a Congo line halfway along the Harbour Bridge due to congestion around Wynyard station. The Sydney Metro Northwest section has proven over the five years that it actually improves Sydney’s bus network. Bus services in Sydney’s Region 4 has moved from a radial design to a hub-and-spoke model.
I would suggest in addition to the Waterfall-Thirroul. tunnel, a duplication and electrification of the Kiama to Bomaderry line to give the people of Shoalhaven access to Sydney
@@alexandersmith7777 Heck...make it join up with V line at Bairnsdale to offer a coastal route to Melbourne. It would be feasible because more XPT patronage has been recorded in recent times.
8:10 I find it very odd how Liverpool with a population of 255k (compared to Parramatta with 269k) has been neglected with train upgrades, has no Metro, and no direct connections to the WSA. I recently had to commute to the WSA from the outer suburbs of Liverpool and it took me almost 5 hours to get to work via public transport, and the same amount of time to WALK THERE the next day.
Blacktown too, it's projected to hit 620k residents in 20 or so years. That's over half a million people, and no plans whatsoever for any PT investment.
I'd agree about Liverpool services. The only improvements since I was a kid are the T5 services, and the recent restoration of the faster City via Regents Park Line. Plus services are now about 10% slower than in the single deck days. There was a proposal for the line south from Liverpool to have some services turn into the airport line between Casula and Glenfield, but that was put off by the logistics facility and competing services from Campbelltown (IIRC).
Are you aware Liverpool will have direct bus links when the airport, like, actually opens? One route via Elizabeth Dr and the other via Bringelly Rd. And a possible third via an upgraded 15th Av. As most people live west of Liverpool's CBD, they are likely to be able to board somewhere en-route to the airport for a shorter trip.
So, you were expecting to get public transport to an airport that isn't yet open?? Wow! There are actually some services to there, but probably not at times you would like.
Where were you? WSI airport, Bringelly, Badgerys Creek and Luddenham, ARE Liverpool's outer suburbs. I know the area very well, grew up there, lived there, worked there, etc..
Worst situation - Even if you needed to walk from, say, a middle suburb like Austral all the way there, it's about 13 to 14 km. I'm in my seventies and I can still do that distance on that sort of ground in about 2.5 hours, weather permitting.
I would like to see the completion of the Maldon Donbarton line. As western Sydney expands, it will become more and more important for people from Wollongong to have this connection.
@@geoffpyne4766 Not to mention an alternative route to Sydney CBD
Great video!
Here's my pie-in-the-sky dream more about HST being the final link in a HST-heavy rail-Metro-Light Rail networks, based on my time in Europe and Sydney's recent embrasure of serious tunnelling:
1. Sydney Central:
A simple terminus feeding a HST line to a key interchange at Parramatta (see next), and then onto Sydney Western Airport (see 3).
2. Parramatta Central:
This runs under the Parramatta suburban rail, and Metro in a north-south direction with an east-west line connecting Sydney Central to Sydney Western Airport. It'll provide an internal connection to fill in the irritating gap between the Metro and suburban rail networks.
3. Western Sydney Airport:
Think Schipol or Frankfurt etc. Jump off a flight, clear security/customs, and then dive downstairs to a HST north-south service.
Th curves in an arc to link up with the main Parramatta north-south Shinkansen around Mooney-Mooney and Campbelltown respectively.
If you look at the first map in this video, you'll see Parramatta lies on a north-south axis that runs Campbelltown to Mooney-Mooney in virtually a straight line.
Consider this the start of the Sydney - Newcastle - Port Macquarie - Coffs Harbour - Grafton - Balina - Tweed Heads/Coolangatta - Surfers - Brissie - Noosa service north.
And then the Sydney - Moss Vale (with alternative Wollongong branch line) - Goulburn- Canberra - Albury/Wagga - Melbourne line south.
Alternative connections to places I've left off due to space (no offence meant in any omissions.
Consider this then the spine of Sydney rail operations and zone areas, and design suburban infrastructure accordingly.
Take it from there - just DON'T FORGET to include a monorail...All the best towns have one: Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook... 😉 😂
Great video, its pretty similar to a plan I made myself.
I would like to see paramatta station become like central station with 5-6 different lines running through it in addition to intercity and regional trains. It would boost the plans for paramatta to be the second CBD attracting developers to build more office and apartment skyscrapers.
Despite the customers seeing it thus, TfNSW refuses to see heavy rail and light rail as complementary services. Consequently they fail to include light rail routes on the trains and metro maps. At least they are good enough to include in the Trip Planner service so perhaps one day...
I would also consider a maldon-dombarton rail link, after the Thirroul to Waterfall tunnel. This would allow a lot of freight to leave the south coast line and it could be double tracked and even have passenger rail given direct access to Western Sydney for those who live in Wollongong. Relieving congestion on the South Coast line and improving reliability.
I feel like the airport metro was a huge missed opportunity to also build a freight bypass network running along the spine of the greater west from Campbelltown to a 2nd Hawkesbury crossing to the central coast via Badgerys Creek, and a western line junction at St Marys.
This along with an extension of the freight line from Chullora to connect with the line at Badgerys creek would pull almost all freight trains off the Sydney trains network, thus freeing up capacity for extra services and making metro conversions or late night service actually possible.
right now any freight from the central tablelands to Chullora or the ports and Melbourne-Brisbane freight has to use the heavily congested Parramatta to Homebush corridor
They want to build a seperate freight line parallel in the median of a future orbital motorway…
Always love a good crayon-on-a-map video!
I'm especially interested in the Norwest-to-Miranda proposal (although I'm a little skeptical it'll ever get built, with how much tunelling it'll need). Its benefits as an orbital transfer line relative to the current CBD, and a central north-south spine relative to Paramatta, make it one of the most valuable lines in the plans IMO. Does anyone know why it's planned to go through Kogarah? Seems like Hurstville would allow a shorter/cheaper tunnel and more convenient transfers, especially for people coming from the south. I'm also curious about the practicalities of the converted heavy rail segment in the middle - how does it fit into the triangle at Sefton while staying grade-separated from the goods line? How will the far-future Bankstown station work?
Very solid ideas, the only other idea i'd love to see somehow getting built (thought it would be low priority) is finding a way to extend a line to Camden (T8 perhaps?), however if the Western Sydney Airport Metro did have a stop at Narellan, it could instead run frequent bus services between the two suburbs to slowly decrease some car dependancy in that region of Sydney over time . Other than that, love the proposed ideas and hope for a future where a bunch of these lines get built.
WSI to Campbelltown/Macarthur already has 2 station locations reserved, Oran Park and Narellan. There needs to be additional stops at Harrington Park and either Narellan Vale, Spring Farm or Mount Annan (or ideally 2 of those 3). It also would have both pros and cons as to whether it terminates at Macarthur or Campbelltown. I believe that M is the current plan however either would be good for train connections (including the Southern Highlands and Canberra line), C-town would be better for the XPT and future HSR, and more buses currently go to C-town than Macarthur. Oran Park is expanding north and by 2040 will be completely filled in to create continuous suburbia from Mount Annan to Bradfield including both sides of The Northern Road. So absolutely needs 2 stations between Oran Park and Bradfield, located at Bringelly and a midpoint between Bringelly and OP.
You should become transport minister for NSW brother, You have better knowledge than the current career politician(s) we have now.
Agreed. We need this!
I've always thought a Northern Beaches line ought to tunnel under Pittwater and connect to the North Coast line. I imagine it would be a shorter trip from the City to the Central Coast that way, and perhaps make it more financially feasible than hoping for car-addicted Northern Beaches residents to use a Northern Beaches-only line.
I don't think the Northern Beaches are car addicted for the most part. The car addicts are a minority and most people are begging for better public transport...and others just leave the beaches. It's the same story for eastern suburbs people...except they have it a little better.
I would suggest amended versions to two of the proposed railway lines.
Firstly if the WSA metro line Bradfield is extended to Leppington, this should be extended along the current railway line to Glenfield, which would be the major interchange with railway network. This would remove the need for separate line to Campbelltown. It is unlikely both metro lines from Bradfield will be built due to high cost & this provides benefits to both regions.
Secondly, I would build Metro tunnel from Metro West line near Nth Strathfield to join T8 line at Wolli Creek or Turella & then convert Airport line to Metro - with stations at Strathfield, Canterbury/Campsie & Enfield.
This would allow trains from Westmead, Parramatta, Olympic Park & Strathfield to travel down Metro West line & then run to Airport & T4 line at Wolli Creek. This would better connect Airport & southern Sydney to Western, SW & NW Sydney.
Really appreciate your vision for the future railways. China has surpassed every expectation of railway and the design and production process. Australia deserves the railway network across the cities and regions and rural communities.
The simple answer is that they shouldn't. There is an entire state outside of Sydney, which should take priority for a while, for a change. Us ignored poor cousins would also like decent public transport.
This is a poor argument. Everything has to be relative to scale, and regional NSW doesn’t have the scale to support this whereas Sydney desperately needs it.
Sydney can have these and regional NSW can have buses. Easy peasy.
Hm about extending the Leppington line to WSA as Sydney Trains, I remember reading somewhere, maybe in the WSA metro EIS, that they expected the two airports to operate independently with very few passengers transferring between the two. That’s why the previous plan was for the Leppington-Glenfield section to be converted to metro and connected up with WSA metro.
I don’t want them connected- the express would go via Sydenham.
I personally think the wsi metro would do better going to only MacArthur instead of both. It’s a quick fix to just change where the regional trains and whatever stop. You could provide the argument that more busses terminate at Campbelltown, but more common than not they do a loop via macarthur square and station. It’s also just a more desirable place to terminate instead of Campbelltown which feels a little more unsafe..
Interesting, I think Bondi Junction to Bondi Beach but with a loop taking in more North and or South should be a priority and can be justified by the areas dense population , Cheers
5:21 “Sans Souci”, Aussies try very hard never to sound French. So it’s “Sands”. In that area is a Beauchamp Street - and it’s not Bow-shom or Byoo-sham, but, incredibly, Beach-him.
for most of my life i thought la perouse was spelt "larperoos"
A mt druit area station on the wsa metro would be better in emerton, it could be built where the old shopping centre is and the land would be far cheaper to acquire than ropes crossing, there's alsa larger population in that area of mt druitt so more people would benefit from it. Ropes crossing could be serviced with bus transit lanes along forester road to st marys.
The extension should also go north west towards Windsor, Richmond and north Richmond after interchange with tallawong, the existing Hawkesbury line could convert to light rail between schofields and Windsor.
Amazing video thank you
As someone in Blue Mountains I hope the airport metro from saint Mary's means BMT trains stop there because 3 transfers with luggage sounds annoying.
I would also make a station for Northmead instead of childrens hospital
With the train to Miranda, you could put a stop in Taren Point. There are 2 high schools
The Sydney T4 line should be converted to Metro running Hurstville to Bondi Beach (with a new station in Waverley).
It all depends on the RTBU, if they have not got an EA finalised yet as of now.
Need a service that goes to Ulladulla
Extend that line all the way south to the border and possibly connected with the Bairnsdale V line in Victoria. Stops include Jervis bay, Ulladulla, Batemans bay, Bega, Eden etc...
There is a need for a duplication of the line from Hornsby to Newcastle to allow for express trains from Newcastle to Sydney.
You mean quadruplication? Even then, not fully, only some more loops. Let HSR take over the expresses.
Defs Wollongong tunnels, also Picton ???
I think the tunnel from Hawkesbury River to Cowan should be extended to Berowra since most trains don't stop at Cowan during peak hour
I am a huge fan of the bondi beach T4 extension. Sad how close it came to being built, too
Agree, weak capitulation to NIMBY'S.
Any of those lines, with the possible exception of Bondi Beach, would smash the HSR out of the park on their BCR’s (Benefit Cost Ratios).
Great to have the extra lines but very short-sighted not to link them all together......using the same trains
The Trip Planner shows how useless the L4 Parramatta light rail is. For journeys to Epping, you are better off catching the 550. CBD bound Telopea residents are better off travelling the L4 to Parramatta than heading for Epping.
if tracing rail lines on openstreetmap is significant effort
would it be worth just using openrailwaymap(with the background set to mapnik color)
or does that cause too much clutter by showing spurs and shunting yards
It’s not too hard, I’m just lazy
Why did you have the metro route in ferry green instead of Metro teal?
Some would still say it was a bottom-of-the-harbour project, but I think most people have come around now. 😏
Priority no1, and the cheapest, Bondi Jct to the beach. It should have been done before the Olympics, but the residents were too entitled and stupid to realise the advantages of this extension.
good stuff, looking foward to the freight and high speed videos too
as politically difficult as it is i think a lot of areas could be made at or above grade instead of in tunnels
needing to clear out large areas of low density housing is just an opportunity to improve the area with transport oriented development
TH-cam is a great place, even the correct place, for these kinds of crazy “wet dream” maps haha. What I’d love to see (or even make myself, but much more practical to Patreon or Ko-Fi someone else for it) is a history of all the aborted plans since 1835, or even 1935.
I don't like Metros. THEY RUIN THE BUS NETWORK! THEY ARE MORE EXPENSIVE THAN BUSES AND IT SHOULD NOT BE BUILD AS IT RUINS THE BUS NETWORK!
What in the hell are you talking about??? The Sydney Metro Northwest section has significantly improved the bus network in Sydney’s Region 4. Since 2019, Sydney’s Region 4 bus network has become:
- more reliable (as buses are less likely to be delayed due to M2 traffic demand)
- The 665 bus route between Rouse Hill and Parramatta operates with a high frequency
- Frequency on other core key bus routes between The Hills District and Parramatta operate at a higher frequency
- The bus routes in Region 4 generally now connect with the Metro or Sydney Trains stations
- Services during non peak times have improved
TfNSW has been using the Sydney Metro to improve the quality of service can deliver through its bus network.
Settle down lmao
@ I guess I am talking from experience as I have lived along the Cherrybrook to Tallawong Metro corridor for the last 20 years. The bus services in this corridor has been improving considerably, but in the mid to late 2000s, it would have taken over an hour to get from Cherrybrook Metro station to Norwest/Bella Vista Metro stations in the morning. Why? All the frequent express bus services were city bound.
By the mid 2010s, most of the frequent express bus services between The Hills District and the CBD were becoming overcrowded in peak hours. The commuter demand had outstripped supply. In the morning, sometimes the buses were forming a Congo line halfway along the Harbour Bridge due to congestion around Wynyard station.
The Sydney Metro Northwest section has proven over the five years that it actually improves Sydney’s bus network. Bus services in Sydney’s Region 4 has moved from a radial design to a hub-and-spoke model.
I would suggest in addition to the Waterfall-Thirroul. tunnel, a duplication and electrification of the Kiama to Bomaderry line to give the people of Shoalhaven access to Sydney
And potentially extend the line further to places like Ulladulla,Batemans Bay,Bega Eden and all the towns in between
@ As an aside maybe complete the Maldonado Dumbarton line not just as a freight line,but a passenger service between Campbelltown and Wollongong
@@alexandersmith7777 Heck...make it join up with V line at Bairnsdale to offer a coastal route to Melbourne. It would be feasible because more XPT patronage has been recorded in recent times.
I discuss this briefly in my next video 👀