Northwest project NORTHWEST

What is the project? Why is Sydney Metro Northwest so important The $8.3 billion Sydney Metro Northwest project is currently under construction and is on track to the North West region? to open to customers in the first half of 2019. Sydney’s population is projected to grow significantly over the coming years to 5.1 million Sydney Metro Northwest, formerly the North West Rail Link, is the first stage of Sydney Metro. people by 2021 and 6 million by 2031. To meet the needs of this growing population, the greater Sydney Metro is Australia’s largest public transport project. Sydney Metro City & Southwest Sydney area will require additional housing, more jobs and critical infrastructure projects is the second stage. to satisfy demand. Sydney Metro Northwest will deliver eight new railway stations, 4000 commuter car parks One of the areas of greatest predicted population growth is Sydney’s North West region. and a train every four minutes in the peak. Customers won’t need a timetable, you’ll just turn up More than 200,000 extra people will move into Sydney’s North West Growth Centre and go. Sydney Metro Northwest will use Opal ticketing, with fares set like the rest of Sydney. over the next 40 years – taking the region’s population above 600,000. At present, many residents in the North West region have limited transport options and rely heavily on cars Sydney Metro Northwest will deliver, for the first time, a reliable public transport service to and bus services to get to where they need to go. Many commute long distances for work a region which has the highest car ownership levels per household in Australia. Over the coming or education, and depend primarily on private vehicles. As a result, suburbs in this region have decades, an extra 200,000 people will move into Sydney’s North West, taking its population the highest private car ownership in Australia, and some of the lowest percentage of journeys above 600,000, or twice the size of Canberra. to work by public transport. Sydney’s new generation of fast, safe and reliable metro trains will be rolled out on Sydney Metro first. They will have the highest level of customer safety including constant CCTV monitoring and to improve safety. N The project includes construction of twin 15 kilometre tunnels from Bella Vista to Epping – Australia’s longest rail tunnels. Four mega tunnel boring machines (TBMs) built the twin tunnels on Sydney Metro Northwest, Stage 1 of Sydney Metro. This was the first time in Australian

NORTH WEST history four TBMs were used on the one transport infrastructure project. GROWTH CENTRE 12K Hornsby Rouse 12K Hill Norwest Castle Hill 13K 30K 17K Frenchs K Mount Forest Dee Why 31 Blacktown Druitt 31K Brookvale 16K Macquarie Penrith Penrith 21K Park Education and Health Chatswood 61K Westmead 58K St Leonards 39K Rhodes 14K

Sydney North Sydney 70K Olympic Park Prairiewood 23K Sydney 13K Fairfield Burwood 14K 454K Green Square Bondi Junction 16K Randwick 14K Education and Health 20K 17K 31K Bankstown Airport- Milperra Liverpool 12K SOUTH WEST 56K 16K GROWTH CENTRE 13K Kogarah 17K Port Botany Leppington Hurstville

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25K Campbelltown Macarthur 0 2 4 6 8 10 km

Figure 3: Major employment centres, Sydney 2031. Source: Sydney’s Rail Future, Transport for NSW. ource: Sydney’s https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/news-and-events/media-releases/sydneys-rail-future

Figure 2: Artist’s impression of Norwest Station.

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Sydney Metro Northwest at a glance „„ Eight new railway stations. These include Cherrybrook, Castle Hill, Showground, Norwest, Bella Vista, Kellyville, Rouse Hill and Cudgegong Road. Each will be developed with Sydney Metro Northwest is the first stage of Sydney Metro and will be the first fully-automated bus shelters, drop-off, wait and pickup areas (called ‘Kiss and ride’), taxi ranks and metro rail system in Australia. cycling facilities

Sydney Metro Northwest forms part of Sydney’s Rail Future - a plan that aims to modernise „„ 4000 commuter car parking spaces. This includes 400 parking spaces at Cherrybrook, and transform Sydney’s rail network. 600 at Showground, 800 at Bella Vista, 1200 at Kellyville and 1000 at Cudgegong Road

„„ A train every four minutes in peak travel times

„„ No timetable, just turn up and go

„„ 16 construction sites

„„ A major metro train stabling facility will be established beyond Cudgegong Road Station at Rouse Hill

„„ Four kilometres of ‘’ viaduct from Bella Vista to Rouse Hill to ensure the rail lines do not physically divide local communities. The skytrain viaduct will run beside the major arterial road that serves the growing North West region, alongside and interacting with a T-way bus transit system. It will include major bridge crossings over Memorial Avenue and Samantha Riley Drive, , Sanctuary Drive, White Hart Drive, Rouse Hill Drive and Second Ponds Creek

„„ Four kilometres of bridges and other viaducts and earthworks will be built. These include road bridges over the rail line at Windsor Road, Cudgegong Road and Tallawong Road, and large earthworks between Balmoral Road and Cudgegong Road Station

„„ Temporary and permanent traffic and transport management works. People who live in the North West region of Sydney have the highest car ownership level in the country, so facilitating traffic movement during the construction phase is an integral part of the plan. Figure 4: Artist’s impression of the new landmark cable-stayed bridge over Windsor Road.

Sydney Metro Northwest will feature:

„„ 36 kilometres of track between Chatswood and Rouse Hill

„„ Fast, safe, reliable single-deck trains which carry about 50% more people per hour than

double-deck carriages. Each carriage will have three or more doors per side, which will Kiss and ride quicken passenger movement in and out of the train. As such, the stop period at each station will be reduced (called ‘dwell time’)

„„ 15 kilometres of tunnels between Bella Vista and Epping. These twin tunnels will be the Figure 5: The team working on the railway station precincts have taken on board community feedback in planning the facilities like Commuter Car Park, Kiss and ride, longest rail tunnels built in Australia, almost six times longer than the . taxi and bus interchange infrastructure, bicycle racks and a further 1000 commuter These twin tunnels will be 6 metres in diameter, with crossover tunnels every 240 metres car parking spaces.

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FAST FACTS

ONWeb THE WEB links

SydneyDOWNLOAD Metro Northwest Sydney Metro Northwest is a priority rail infrastructure project for the NSW Government.

INFO https://www.sydneymetro.infoi

https://www.sydneymetro.info/northwest/project-overview

NSW Department of Planning and Environment http://www.planning.nsw.gov.au

Sydney’s Rail Future https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/media/documents/2017/sydneys- light-rail-future.pdf

Sydney’s new metro trains infographic https://www.sydneymetro.info/metro-trains

Sydney Metro Northwest Project Overview June 2014 (pdf, 5mb) https://www.sydneymetro.info/sites/default/files/ProjectOverview2014.pdf%3Fext%3D.pdf

Sydney Metro Northwest Project Overview September 2015 https://www.sydneymetro.info/sites/default/files/15082-Project-overview-Septem- ber-2015_web.pdf%3Fext%3D.pdf

Sydney Metro Northwest Corridor Strategy (pdf, 4.1mb) The Sydney Metro Northwest Corridor Strategy proposes a vision of sustainable, well-connected, liveable communities. Find out the details for each area. http://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/Plans-for-your-area/Priority-Growth-Areas-and-Pre- cincts/Sydney-Metro-Northwest-Priority-Urban-Renewal-Corridor/~/media/3C7B8E2246 724F50BC507815AC6169FD.ashx

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Project summary map

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4km viaduct, bridge Riverstone and earthworks DURAL Asquith

Rouse Hill Sydney Metro Trains Facility Cudgegong Hornsby Road Schofields Waitara Kellyville

STANHOPE Normanhurst Wahroonga GARDENS 4km Showground Warrawee skytrain LEGEND Quakers Hill Cherrybrook Thornleigh viaduct Turramurra Project Bella Castle Hill Project alignment PARKLEA M7 Vista Norwest Pennant Hills New railway stations Pymble FRENCHS Marayong WEST Existing railway stations Beecroft FOREST PENNANT Gordon Commuter car HILLS Cheltenham parking facilities LALOR PARK M2 Killara Facilities at all new stations 15km Macquarie Doonside Bus interchange M2 Epping University Blacktown Seven Hills twin bore Lindfield

Taxi new tunnels WINSTON Carlingford Cycle HILLS North Roseville Toongabbie Macquarie Ryde Kiss and ride Eastwood NORTHMEAD Park Telopea Chatswood Easy access Interchange Denistone 13km Pendle Hill Dundas Other Artarmon M4 West Ryde Epping to Chatswood Existing railway Wentworthville Rydalmere Westmead Line upgraded Strategic road network 0km 5km Meadowbank T-ways Parramatta Camellia St Leonards Harris Park Rosehill

Rhodes Wollstonecraft

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