Beneath Sydney, one of the world’s largest metro rail projects faces crunch

90 years ago. “It will provide the backbone that Sydney has needed for a long time,” he says. “It is going to advantage particularly south-western Sydney. The public transport system should help people from the south-west get to employment in the CBD.”

However, some former top NSW railway executives have serious reservations that the benefits of the new metro line under the CBD will match its $18.5 billion price tag. The man who made trains run on time during the Sydney Olympics, Dick Day, believes the line should have been extended from Sydenham to Hurstville in Sydney’s south – instead of to Bankstown – to feed larger numbers of commuters onto the high-capacity metro network.“Metro lines are incredibly expensive to build.

Another argument is that more bang for taxpayers’ bucks could have come from investing the tens of billions for the metro lines into improving and extending the existing suburban rail network. And a fear is that Sydney creates a two-class rail system – a shiny new metro network and a suburban system creaking under the weight of ageing trains and infrastructure.

Despite his reservations, Hounsell believes the City and Southwest line will improve public transport access on a massive scale. “The Northwest Metro is good but once the line opens in the CBD people will feel the benefits of this high-frequency transport. It will provide public transport in a way that the city hasn’t really experienced,” he says.

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