The man who masterminded the train timetable for the Sydney Olympics warns the city’s multibillion-dollar metro rail projects risk delivering limited benefits to commuters despite their staggering price tags
Day argues it is reckless to keep committing vast sums of money to extra metro rail lines because of a “very real possibility” that peak-hour commuting by train never returns to pre-pandemic levels.He warns Sydney is out of step with London, Melbourne and Brisbane, where new rail tunnels under the heart of those cities will accommodate existing train services at improved frequencies and offer relief for their networks.
Day, who was responsible for mapping out and planning train services that contributed to Sydney’s successful 2000 Olympics, is also critical of plans for aHe warns that most passengers travelling towards central Sydney from the outer west by rail will have boarded double-decker trains at stations further west of Parramatta, and will not change there to catch services on Metro West, which would have only one main station in the CBD.
Premier Dominic Perrottet, centre, with Metropolitan Roads Minister Natalie Ward and Sydney Metro chief executive Peter Regan last week.“There has been an unprecedented rush by the government to lock in the construction of these projects despite a very poor understanding of their costs and benefits. This has taken place at a time when commuting patterns have shifted considerably following COVID-19,” he wrote.
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