Exclusive: Transport agency planned to cut Sydney’s peak-hour train services | Mattonews Rabe9
NSW’s transport agency floated a plan to cut train services in Sydney during peak periods in a bid to save money and reconfigure the rail network after the pandemic altered travel patterns.
Transport Minister David Elliott baulked at the plans, which would have been introduced less than six months out from the state election. The document had also flagged the agency’s plans to reduce frequencies on key bus routes in the Hills District, inner west, north shore, northern beaches and the south-west.
It couched the now-scuttled changes as a way to “right-size rail and bus services” to create a simpler and more resilient and reliable network.Credit:Transport for NSW said in a statement that a brief was prepared earlier this year to identify potential options to reallocate services from areas of Sydney where there was excess capacity to boost services in other areas.
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