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Get ready to change trains more often under the new Metro
BY ALEXANDER LEWIS Don’t like changing trains on the way to work? Well, you’re going to have to get used to doing it a whole lot more, according to NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance. The Sydney Metro, for which the government unveiled plans earlier this year, will supposedly double the capacity of our train network. […]
All stations to nowhere
By GRACE JOHNSON Residents of Erskineville and St Peters are outraged by government plans to cut train services on the Bankstown line. Local community group Friends of Erskineville (FOE) have petitioned against the cuts and lobbied for increased public transport to end the overcrowding on current rail services. Under the state government proposal, the Sydney […]
Communities “still in the dark” over Metro
By Emily Contador-Kelsall The south Sydney community is calling for a “tailored dialogue” with the government bodies involved in the Sydney Metro project, following the announcement that the state government has secured funding for the project through the leasing of the state’s electricity network. The government has allocated $7 billion of funding towards the […]
Metro strategy running blind
The latest draft of the State Government’s Sydney Metropolitan Strategy has been roundly condemned for prioritising economic growth while ignoring Sydney’s food production system. Jamie Parker, the Greens MP for Balmain, said that the government deserved credit for mentioning agriculture in the strategy, but more work was needed to enhance the value of farming. "As […]
CBD chaos as Metro bores ahead
by Michael Gormly Construction zones for the Rozelle to Central Metro rail line will take over key areas of Sydney until 2015 and require the demolition of at least one heritage-listed building in the CBD and two buildings near Union Square in Pyrmont. But we don't know which Pyrmont buildings and the new Sydney Metro […]
