Sydney Metro — Attraction in Sydney

The shoddy Indian-built carriages are already showing their age: in the first week it opened I rode in the front carriage of a service under the Harbour from Barangaroo to Victoria Cross and there was a strip of black rubber window sealing sagging visibly needing to be tucked back in place. The driverless trains regularly overshoot their platform lineups by a few inches and then have to be manually reversed by someone in a screen-filled control room somewhere before the doors can open. The seats lack sufficient thickness to absorb the rocky, shuddering ride, especially in the tunnelled sections. It accelerates rapidly and is fast but it shakes like an ageing, peeing dog during the journey. While the stations are majestic works of art, and the air conditioning in the carriages is cooler and far more effective than on City Rail double decker carriages, the lasting impression of the ride is cheap and nasty. I would have thought $21.6 BILLION could have bought a better grade of rolling stock that ran smoothly and didn’t rattle like a leaf in a breeze. You know, something like the Hong Kong MTR or the...

Pathetic !! “Trackwork” Every 4 weeks at least! What a crock !! Standard trains were great before from Wynyard to Macquarie university …easy service, no platform change & wait 10 minutes required. Now there’s the Metro: USELESS, constant delays, breaks down in a light drizzle 🌦️ Filthy seats & feral school children spilling food & bullying passengers Unpoliced !!...

Future proofing interchangeable transit nodes are still on going with more stages being unearthed and structures being built now. What's unveiled @ central station and a cross the lite rail, trams is forthcoming for the second biggest city in the world in terms of squared metres, Sydney. In fact, Sydney is only second to the city L.A. in the U.S.A. in...