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Why metro for Sydney?
To maintain and improve Sydney’s global position and contribution to national productivity, Sydney needs efficient transport networks for the free-flow of people between their homes and jobs. We also need to cater for visitors to our city and for off-peak travel.
Here are some key points:
- Sydney’s complex network of rail, road and bus is already at capacity at key points of the network – points which are also experiencing and will continue to experience the highest rates of population and employment growth.
- To maximise and support growth and sustainability, Sydney needs a comprehensive transport solution for the future.
- Metro rail is an essential addition to Sydney’s transport system and, over time, it will grow to be as significant as, and fully integrated with, the roads, rail and buses that underpin Sydney’s communities and economy.
- A metro system, capable of carrying from 29,000 up to 40,000 passengers per hour in each direction, would be a major injection of higher service quality and capacity into a constrained network.
- Metro rail has the proven ability to step up and meet the sustainable mass transit challenges of a modern, global city like Sydney.
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