A concerted push is underway for more stations to be built on Sydney’s mega rail line to better connect suburbs and help solve a housing crisis.
Two of Sydney’s biggest councils argue that extra stations need to be built on the $25 billion Metro West rail line to connect suburbs and help solve a housing crisis, describing a focus on 20-minute travel times for trains between the CBD and Parramatta as “massively out of date”.
Connolly said the original plans for Metro West focused on the benefits of a 20-minute train journey between Parramatta and the CBD, but were now “massively out of date” and should be reconsidered. to extend the Metro West line from a station at Hunter Street in the CBD to Zetland, which is part of the fast-growing Green Square precinct.
“It is four from the CBD. People living and working in the area should be only using public transport,” she told the hearing.However, Urban Development Institute of Australia chief executive Steve Mann said the “obvious first target” for extra stations was along a seven-kilometre stretch between Olympic Park and Parramatta, which under the existing plans did not have a station.
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