Minister for Transport Jo Haylen has confirmed that the Sydney Metro City section will open for passengers on the 19th of August after a delay earlier this month.
This city section of what will be known as the M1 Northwest & Bankstown Line includes an additional 15.5-kilometres of metro rail extending the North West line from Chatswood, below the harbour and through the Sydney CBD, to Sydenham.
Minister Haylen said that the Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator (ONRSR) had ticked off the project after it delayed the opening in early August.
After several months of testing and trial runs, the line will begin taking passengers from Tuesday with stations receiving ‘touch ups’ over the weekend to ensure they are ready to receive passengers.
Sydney’s new M1 line includes:
- 45 metro trains and 445 new services a day;
- That’s a train every four minutes in the peak, seven minutes during week days, between morning and afternoon peak services (gradually increasing over the first few months to a train every five minutes) and every 10 minutes during off peak and on weekends;
- Six fully accessible new stations at Crows Nest, Victoria Cross, Barangaroo, Martin Place, Gadigal and Waterloo, along with new platforms at Central and Sydenham;
- Simple interchanges with buses at all stations, ferries at Barangaroo, light rail at Central and with train services at Martin Place, Central and Sydenham;
- Uninterrupted network mobile coverage;
- Safe journeys monitored by a state-of-the-art control centre, with approx. 100 CCTV cameras at every station and 38 cameras inside each train;
- Over 600 secure bike parking spaces at Crows Nest, Victoria Cross, Waterloo and Sydenham, as part of 900 new bike parking spaces across all eight stations.
- Platform screen door technology to keep people and objects safely away from tracks.
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