Sydney’s massive train network is growing, in the form of Sydney Metro. First announced in 2012, the Sydney Metro is the first fully-automated rapid transit system in Australia’s history. It will be open at its full extent by the year 2030, with 46 stations spread out across 113 kilometres of track. But if metro planners have their way, that will be just the beginning. A metro to UNSW? The long-awaited construction of the Epping to Parramatta rail link? A massive new metro hub at Kogarah? A metro station for Bondi Beach? All that is just the tip of the iceberg. This is the story of the Sydney Metro’s ever-continuing evolution, and the plans the government have for the network by the year 2056.
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As referenced in the video, there are three primary sources released by the government that I used to determine the future of Sydney’s Metro network. This map is strictly not a fantasy map; every line and station I have conveyed has its roots in one of the three government sources that I found. These sources can be found on my website at this link: https://roadsaustralia.weebly.com/sources-for-sydney-metro-video.html
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Hey all! I've received some comments citing that three specific lines that I put in my map (all towards the end of the video) are NOT planned as Metro lines, but instead more likely as bus rapid transit.
– Campbelltown to Wollongong
– Northern Beaches
– Liverpool to Western Sydney Airport
Now, the source I used to include these three lines was not very clear that these lines are not planned as Metro lines, which is why I included them. However, upon second look I have deduced that these lines do indeed appear to be planned as bus rapid transit, not Metro. I'd like to apologise over this inaccuracy; I'll do better research next time, as I would sincerely like to set a precedent for thorough research on this channel.
Indeed, as many have pointed out, a Metro seems unlikely in many of the corridors I've included, let alone by 2056. But this video exists to list ALL of the government's proposals regardless of their feasibility or likelihood of construction. Do I actually believe the network would look like this in 2056? God I wish 😆. (Let's hope that as many of them are built as possible, though! I try to hope…)
I'll discuss actual feasibility in a future video.
Thanks for watching!
This shows the stupidity of politicians. It's a metro not a suburban train
I like it how the government actively avoids bringing public transport developments to the northern beaches and the eastern suburbs, to make it as difficult as possible for Westies and Low-Class plebeians to pollute all Sydneys best and most affluent regions.
The metro line isn’t a metro line. They just use that word as a proper noun for future lines as a union busting exercise. By claiming the new lines are a different network, called the “Metro” they’re not bound by all the agreements Cityrail has made with the rail unions. That’s the only reason for the name. In fact they spent like a billion making the former Chatswood Epping Cityrail line incompatible to Cityrail trains, height wise, before transferring it to the Metro, to make sure no future Labour govt would consider running city rail trains on it in the future; as both use the same electrical settings & rail gauge, they use a different train gauge.
cost too much, takes too long and accomplish too little
Bahaha…..none of that will happen. Btw…how do u get fron bankstown to livo once the sw metro is done?.
I live in Sydney. All the trains network. No train or driver to run. Most of the time replacing with buses
I think the proposed Metro line is likely to happen, especially the Norwest to Parramatta Metro line, which can bring more people to second CBD Parramatta for work opportunities , people don't need to go to CBD to work, instead they can work at Parramatta
See the gap down the bottom, that’s where Sydney’s rapid residential southern expansion is occurring, no rail planned, but then again they are just the poorer people that can not afford to live close the city and some obviously believe that they don’t count.sarcasm
This rail network are almost as confusing as the Tokyo rail network
You may have to redo the whole video, as all three metros are incompatible with each other due to size and overhead voltage differences. They couldn’t have screwed this up anymore if they tried!
Intercity metro to Wollongong?! Oo
"Sydney has a massive train network". whoa there cowboy. The word "Massive" does not mean what you seem to think it means.
It would be interesting to investigate why the 3 metros underway have not been built to a certain compatible standard. It does seem unbelievable.
cant wait for the northern beaches line to not be built cus rich white families dont want the area to “be ruined by a train line” like they did with the original plans for a northern beaches line
I'm in Brisbane, and the Syndey Metro makes me so jealous. Sure we got our own metro project, but they are basically just large buses rather than an actual train.
No rail line to Monavale until 2056, and maybe not at all seems to be a major example of short-sightedness. It seems likely that car use will become increasingly discouraged before the 2040's and an urgent need for rail services will then become very apparent. With decades required to build new services filling the streets with buses seems a poor alternative.
What messs
This is a vast improvement & extension of the suburban networ.from when I lived in Sydney in the late 1980s!.
What we also need is a heavy rail between Camperdown, Penrith and Hornsby. This would also allow for freight to transverse this line. This line would enable greater expansion of employment for the greater west
The thing that confuses me is that these plans act like it's all one line. There are no different colors, numbers/letters or names. This is a metro not a streetcar network or heavy rail. There should be a clear definition between the different lines.
they have needed a northern beaches line like forever.
When was it altered to metro . It was always the train when I knew it.
Australia's New Western Sydney Airport Is a Logistical Nightmare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEe1k_2kBOQ
Interesting a few notes
1. I think the Kogerah to Macquarie park and Norwest should interchange at Revesby instead of Kingsgrove since Kingsgrove isn’t served by the Macarthur trains and would complicate things if it did.
2. The Leppington line shouldn’t be converted to Metro because it will delay the Melbourne XPT since it borrows the T2 line at Glenfield to overtake the T8 Airport train otherwise it would get stuck behind it so instead they should extend the heavy rail line from Leppington to the new Airport.
Great video, subscribed 👍
Victoria cross is in the North Sydney CBD
I will be long time dead before this happens!
Thanks for another excellent video. I notice that there is quite a distance between Cherrybrook and Epping. Are there any plans to build an extra station between these two stations? I am quite familiar with the Bankstown line, as prior to moving to Melbourne in 1981, I lived at Marrickville for the first part of my life. I doubt that I will see the 2056 Metro extensions, unless I actually make it to 104 years old!!! LOL. I am rather surprised that they don't just extend the Randwick/Kingsford light rail line to La Perouse, following the original tram route, on reserved track along the centre of the road. light rail there may be a cheaper option and the line also could even be opened well before 2056. Anyway, wishing you the very best from Rob in Melbourne Australia.
Even if only half get done this is so much better connection than what Melb and Brisbane currently offer.
It won’t be done due to heritage & minimum wage labour costs stop the construction blowing way out the national budget
Bondi Beach station will never ever happen HaHa 🤣🤣🤣even in my dreams!!! Theirs to many politicians & corruption in the area
“Action for Transport 2010” would like to have a word with you. Jokes aside, it’s useful to have these ambitions. But just be aware they’ll feed into a matrix of new planning decisions that will take shape in 2040 or 2050, nothing more than that. Just as in the last few political supercycles.
Sydneham 😂
Hi sharath, my sister in law works in sydney metro and i don’t think a connection between the airport line and northwest/southwest line is possible, i was told that the tracks are different meaning trains on the airport line are not able to run on the other lines, so i don’t think this may be the possible future of the metro sadly.
You really think the ESL will terminate at Bondi beach?
Hasn't for the last >40 years.
Ok, what's another 33 years.
And why is UNSW station before Randwick?
A line to the Northern Beaches?
Nah, the NIMBY force is strong there.
Oh good, I see Waterloo isn't on the Airport line.
most of us will be dead by then
Do the Metro lines to the airports be privatized with a higher fare than the existing Metro fare?
And from Mona Vale under Brisbane Water and link up to Gosford!
Why 2056
We will be very old
They could just opened it to now
I looked on the metro website, and it suggests that the travel time between Chatswood and Barangaroo is about 10 minutes. That's half of the current train travel time. Very nice!
What you failed to mention is that of the 46 new stations 12 are actually existing stations that are being upgraded to metro standard and not knocked down and rebuilt
I hope sydey metro callk built more stations near airport and charzwood
Happy there’s a new station at Schofields
Interesting video, though a lot will likely change between now and then. I’m hoping for a Metro West to expand east “Metro East” to UNSW via Oxford St or Taylor Square and Zetland, as well as “Metro North” including Northern Beaches and Central Coast, with stops at Manly, Brookvale, Mona Vale, Avalon, Woy Woy and terminating at Gosford, while extending south on the other end “Metro South” to stop at Domestic, International, Kogarah, Hurstville, Sutherland, Miranda and terminating at Cronulla.
I think 2156 may be a more realistic timeframe for a train line to the Northern Beaches. Or 2256
I HAVE NO FAITH IN SYDNEY
Northern beaches getting very low priority for rail network. Northern beaches hospital has no train to commute
Sydney will be underwater by 2056
don't want to be pessimistic, but i have little faith that such grand plan will become a reality with the timeline provided