City & Southwest Project update

Bankstown Line conversion approved

The new Metro

A world class metro service with faster Key features of the new metro journeys, more , easier access and better connections is coming to the south west. Lifts at every station between and Marrickville From early 2019 you will see our construction teams at Improved CCTV surveillance and platform stations between Bankstown and Marrickville, setting screen doors up work sites and conducting investigations. All trains stopping at all local stations This signals the start of the upgrade to the T3 – no waiting for the right train between Sydenham and Bankstown, including making all 11 stations fully accessible with Safe and easy interchanges between metro lifts for the first time at Punchbowl, Wiley Park, and services Canterbury, Hurlstone Park and Dulwich Hill. Faster travel times to key employment and The project also includes upgrades to tracks, education precincts stations and signals, and opportunities for station improvements like a new public plaza at Campsie All stations will have level access and a new concourse across Dulwich Hill Station between platforms and trains – no more gaps or steps connecting metro and light rail. up into the train This work will deliver a new direct connection to Waterloo, four city stations, North Sydney, Crows Nest, Chatswood, North Ryde and Macquarie Park, all without having to change trains.

Fast and frequent services Sydney every 4 minutes 10 minutes now Metro in the peak in the off peak Second half 2019 2024 2020s 2026

Northwest City & Southwest West Western Sydney 31 metro stations No timetable Connected 38 cameras Video help points Opens 2019 Opens 2024 Second half Airport Fully accessible Customers will Continuous mobile on each train on all platforms of 2020s Opens 2026 just turn up and go phone coverage through network Double doors for faster loading and unloading

Platform screen doors keep Wheelchair spaces, Inside you can Real-time travel Two multi-purpose people and objects away separate priority see from one information and areas per train for Customer service assistants at every Heating and Level access from the edge and allow seating and end of the train live electronic prams, luggage station and moving through the air conditioning between platform trains to get in and out of emergency intercoms to the other route maps and bicycles network during the day and night and train stations much faster

Sydney Metro – the facts Steps and gaps Sydney Metro will have level access The current platforms were built Sydney Metro will reduce the gap Improving reliability between platforms and trains. when steam trains used the and remove the step up to the train Bankstown Line in the 19th century. that is common at some stations. The T3 Bankstown Line creates a significant bottleneck as it merges with other railway lines close to the Sydney CBD, including the T8 Airport & South Line and the & Leppington Line.

Moving Bankstown Line services to the new standalone metro system removes this bottleneck, providing capacity for more trains to run on the existing network across Sydney.

Frequency Transport during upgrades Sydney Metro connections When services on Sydney Metro City & Southwest The T3 Bankstown Line will remain open during the majority start in 2024, there will be a train every four minutes of construction. Connections to the city To North Sydney and the North West in the peak in each direction, with plenty of space to Sydney Metro will deliver direct access to the city via To North Sydney and Hornsby grow in the future. Some major work will be done during planned rail possessions new metro stations at , and when trains are not running, including at night, on weekends and Barangaroo, better connecting customers to Sydney’s There will be ultimate capacity for a metro train every an additional rail possession during the Christmas school holidays. employment, financial and retail districts. two minutes in each direction under the city. A final three-to-six month possession will be used to complete the Customers between Bankstown and Marrickville, will Stations along the T3 Bankstown Line currently have upgrade, including installing and testing not need to interchange at Sydenham or Central to a train every six to 15 minutes in the morning peak. and commissioning the line. access the new metro stations in the Sydney CBD or the key centres of Waterloo, North Sydney, Crows 800m Temporary bus services will keep people moving. Now Nest, Chatswood, North Ryde and Macquarie Park. 400m

This s ervice is operate d by Martin 4 to 10 per hour To Bondi Wynyard Place Junction Sydney Metro OPEN Erskineville and St Peters 15 per hour With the introduction of Stage 1 of the NSW Government's Pitt Bankstown and beyond $1.5 billion More Trains, More Services program in November Street 2017, which included the introduction of 1500 additional rail 350m Sydney Metro is committed to working with the services, St Peters and Erskineville stations have frequent Town Hall Capacity City of Canterbury Bankstown on a station precinct services to the city in the morning peak, with eight services masterplan for Bankstown. an hour at St Peters and six services an hour at Erskineville. Over the three-hour morning peak,

Sydney Metro will be able to move Stations west of Bankstown will continue to be When Sydney Metro City & Southwest opens in 2024, 51,000 people in each direction on 130m serviced by Sydney Trains. St Peters and Erskineville stations will continue to be the Bankstown Line – that's an extra 450m serviced by Sydney Trains. 350m 15,000 more people than now. These customers can interchanges between Sydney St James Trains and metro services at Bankstown, Sydenham, Sydney Metro will deliver new and direct access to key Museum Central, Martin Place or Chatswood. employment and educational precincts like Barangaroo, North Sydney, Chatswood and Macquarie University. Publicly owned Sydney Metro stations have been designed to Central Sydney Metro infrastructure, like minimise the time taken to transfer between Customers at St Peters and Erskineville will be able the stations, trains and railway Sydney Trains and metro services. to access these areas by catching a train to Central tracks, are owned by the NSW and connecting to the metro. Redfern Government. Waterloo Erskineville

Seating Railway tracks Fares St Peters access In the three-hour morning peak, Sydney’s new metro trains will Sydney Metro uses Opal Customers on the Sydney Metro T3 Sydney Metro will deliver more than use the existing railway tracks. Sydenham More than ticketing and fares are set Bankstown Line can continue to access the 17,000 seats on 45 services from Only a few sections of tracks by the NSW Government, 17,000 seats City Circle by transferring to Sydney Trains Bankstown to the city. will need to be replaced to the same as the rest of the services. Alternatively, Martin Place and Pitt allow Sydney Metro trains to Sydney public transport Street metro stations are just 350 metres network. run safely and e‘ciently. To Waterfall, Cronulla away from St James and Museum stations. and Macarthur To Bankstown