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Tallawong is the perfect case study on how park-and-rides can never scale up to meet the capacity of a metro line but will consume the prime land around the station trying to do so.

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The Sydney metro station where there are 2.5 cars for every parking space

A review into commuter car parking at one of Sydney’s busiest metro stations has painted a grim picture of the daily parking ordeal – and demand is showing no signs of slowing.

A post to give some love to the 1970s branding on the Eastern Suburbs Line

Shout out to the recent upgrades to Crown St, Surry Hills. City of Sydney removed several car parks in favour of landscaped outdoor dining areas. Some were turning temporary ones from COVID permanent, others are new. It's a really great area to walk along and enjoy.

Here's some before and after:

Let's goooooo

What a stupid waste of money.

$160m to provide one train's worth of capacity. There'll still be no spaces past 7am.

I was hoping NSW had moved past this, but so many people are being sold on living in sprawl and driving to metro. And the govt pretends it'll work.

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New 1100-vehicle car park to be built at busy north-west Sydney Metro station

Tallawong station has languished with an overflowing, single-storey car park since opening in 2019.

After many years of tantrums from North Sydney NIMBYs, the new Sydney Harbour Bridge cycle approach ramp is finally open!

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‘Much more than a ramp’: Newest addition to Sydney Harbour Bridge opens to cyclists

The opening on Tuesday of the 170-metre-long ramp at the Coathanger’s northern end means cyclists no longer have to lug their bikes up and down 55 stairs.

Potential for over 16,000 new homes has been deleted from Bella Vista and Kellyville stations. Looks like Federal Labor MP Michelle Rowland got their wish? Her electorate across Old Windsor Rd has been completely removed from the rezoned area.

What a waste of a the best railway line in the country.

Evan @fictilli.us

Some parts of Sydney could be twice as densely populated than previously planned after the government revealed major zoning changes around the city’s major transport hubs. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

The suburbs where new housing density will double under revised plan

This is what some Sydney suburbs could look like after the government changed the zoning capacity at key transport hubs.

Patronage shows the real value of the Airport Line was not the airport. It was the development it enabled in the inner suburbs, with a heap of new housing added at the other 3 stations in the project. Plus it gave an extra track pair to bypass the congested Sydenham junction.

Has hell frozen over?

You know metro has been a smashing success when even the Northern Beaches wants one

The virtuous cycle of public transport:

The better it is, the more people use it.

The more people use it, the better it gets.

Every Sydney Station @sydneystations.bsky.social

Love to see it. Frequency boost for Sydney Metro! Permanent increase from every 10 min to 7 min on weekends. Temporary increase from every 4 min to 3.5 min in peak, using extra trains ordered for the under construction Bankstown extension. www.sydneymetro.info/article/majo...

Major boost to M1 Metro services starts today | Sydney Metro

Passengers travelling on the M1 Line are set to benefit from a major increase in services from today, making it easier to choose public transport as fuel supply pressures continue.

Did you know there's an abandoned half-built station in the eastern suburbs?

@sydney.yimby.au have launched a petition to have Woollarah Station finally built. The population in that area has been going backwards so it's a great opportunity for more TOD.

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Join me in supporting the Build Woollahra station, and a big TOD next to it Campaign

There is a ghost station between Edgecliff and Bondi Junction. In the 1970s space was dedicated for Woollahra station, but it was never completed because local NIMBYs took it to the High Court. We're ...

MARTIN PLACE, 2km from Central, is a large underground maze beneath the skyscrapers of the Sydney CBD. Arguably the jewel of Sydney Metro, it is two stations joined into a complex with 4 platforms, countless lifts and escalators, 3 concourses, two office towers and dozens of shops (LONG THREAD 1/13)

Happy first birthday to the Sydney CBD Metro. 🥳

Woollahra Council are having a massive sook over plans for more housing directly behind Edgecliff Station. They say one of the richest parts of the country has enough housing already, and moan about traffic and heritage.

Have your say:
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Metro patronage continuing to soar. Anecdotally, crowding in the morning has caused some people to go back to the slower Trains.

Not mentioned in the story: Metro has overtaken the T1 North Shore & Western line. It's now Australia's busiest railway line!

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Revealed: Sydney’s busiest metro stations during the morning rush

New data shows commuter numbers have swelled beyond prediction on the busiest section of the M1 line.

A good look at how public transport has fared in Aussie cities over the decades. Would be interested to see these recut per capita!

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Australian urban public transport - 2024 update

In September 2014, the Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics released a fascinating report, Long-term trends in urban public transport, the core of which was a detailed reconstruction of the publ...

With the CBD Metro open, people are asking why is the station parking so inadequate? Parking means people far from line can use it, with less traffic from their longer drive to the city. Sounds great!

So why would a $21 billion project not be able to provide enough parking?⬇️1/8

As always, it's the wealthiest parts of the country that get the media coverage to push back on any supply of new housing.

Rose Bay, median house price $5.1 million.

Maybe it's time we talked about congestion pricing for the Sydney CBD

Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

What a shocker of a trackwork weekend, no trains thru the city except T4. How's that for planning!

City Circle closed. T2,T3 end at Strathfield. T8 ends at Sydenham or Central (map's wrong!)
T1,T9 closed Central-Wynyard.
Metro Closed.

Plus the new bridge at Sydenham is closed for some reason!

How far has construction gone on Parramatta Light Rail Stage 2?

Not very. But the route is going to be amazing once it's up and running.

Starting from the south end at the Carter St stop, Lidcombe. Already new TODs going up. Civil works underway but I don't think they're LR related. (1/6)

Also: Council plan to remove cars from the George St end of Hunter St and reduce the rest from four lanes to one.

Sydney is in a virtuous cycle of building transit and removing road space, enabling both better access to transit and removal of even more road space.

How to actually beat traffic!

Every Sydney Station @sydneystations.bsky.social

Really can't wait to see how this all fits together in detail! 10 underground platforms in a complex that may even be busier than Central www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Lots of talk around the place on how Sydney Metro is smashing it with patronage. It's just one (incomplete) line, and it's already 1-in-5 rail trips in Sydney and the third busiest operator in the country.

Truly transformative!