Tag Archives: Rail

Media follow-up to my series on Sydney’s incompatible metros

Posted on 31 May, 2023 by Alex

Both the Sydney Morning Herald and the ABC have followed up some of the issues raised in my two-part series on the way that decisions of the previous NSW state government have ensured that Sydney Metro will be far from … Continue reading →

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Whatever the NSW election result, metros are the winner

Posted on 23 March, 2023 by Alex

As I write this post on the eve of the 2023 NSW state election, the major parties are neck-and-neck in the opinion polls. I’m not going to attempt to pick the result but there is already one clear winner, at … Continue reading →

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Sydney: why have one metro system when you can have two (or more)? Part 2

Posted on 1 February, 2023 by Alex

In the first post in this series I took a look at the significant differences between Sydney Metro Western Sydney Airport (Metro WSA) which will connect the new airport to the Sydney Trains network at St Marys, and the combined … Continue reading →

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Sydney: why have one metro system when you can have two (or more)? Part 1

Posted on 14 January, 2023 by Alex

The second week of January 2023 featured extensive media coverage in the Sydney Morning Herald about the Sydney Metro. It’s unclear what triggered this, apart from the opening of the next stage of Metro City and Southwest from Chatswood to … Continue reading →

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Labor’s High Speed Rail proposal – too far, or not far enough?

Posted on 2 January, 2022 by Alex

Opposition leader Anthony Albanese today announced that Labor would “make fast rail connections between Sydney, the Central Coast and Newcastle a reality” and establish a High-Speed Rail Authority if it wins government in next year’s federal election. Unfortunately, it’s hard … Continue reading →

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Sydney Metro West gets a mega CBD interchange and Star Casino hits the jackpot, but no southeast link

Posted on 4 July, 2021 by Alex

Two more pieces in the Sydney Metro West puzzle were revealed in the recent announcement by the NSW Government of the location of the remaining stations on the line – Pyrmont and Hunter Street. The announcement itself was not a … Continue reading →

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Meet REM: Sydney Metro’s Canadian twin

Posted on 4 February, 2020 by Alex

A fully automated metro system over 65 kilometres long is under staged construction in a major city and is expected to be fully open by the early 2020s. Using technology supplied by European rail company Alstom and trains manufactured in … Continue reading →

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Sydney Metro West update: the government goes for speed over coverage

Posted on 22 October, 2019 by Alex

Yesterday’s release of a Project Overview detailing the station locations for the planned Sydney Metro West between Westmead and the Sydney CBD largely confirms the state government’s previous announcements as well as analysis in this blog and elsewhere. It also … Continue reading →

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Why are motorways good but fast trains bad for regional cities?

Posted on 22 September, 2019 by Alex

While I was overseas a few months ago in Tbilisi (among other things looking at the city’s transport systems) I read The Conversation article by Todd Denham and Jago Dodson – Regional cities beware – fast rail might lead to … Continue reading →

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Metros and Marshrutkas – taking a ride in Tbilisi: part 1

Posted on 31 August, 2019 by Alex

Recently I had the privilege of spending five weeks in Georgia helping my wife with an art installation. I spent most of my time in Tbilisi on my second visit to this sometimes chaotic but always interesting city which always … Continue reading →

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