Sydney Metro: The underground line is opening up the city
As the new metro line opens under the heart of Sydney, here’s everything you need to know about how it became a reality.
How Sydney’s new metro train system compares with other global cities
Sydney has finally opened a major new metro line under the heart of the city. We looked at how our growing metro network stacks up globally.
- by Matt O'Sullivan and Anthony Segaert
On board the 4.54 metro train under Sydney Harbour and into the history books
The train was packed with rail enthusiasts who had arrived hours beforehand, as well as those who helped make the mega-project a reality.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
How near impossible plan for mega-metro line under Sydney Harbour became reality
Decades in the making, a mega rail line under central Sydney and the harbour will finally open on Monday. It has been a long and rocky journey to get to this day.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
Revealed: How Sydney metro is steering commuters away from old stations
The mega-metro rail line under the central city is stamping its mark on commuter behaviour just days after opening.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
The winners and losers as Sydney Metro shakes up city’s businesses
Businesses at older rail stations say trade is down since Monday’s opening, but hope faster commutes will boost numbers if fewer choose to work from home.
- by Penry Buckley
The moment Sydney’s ‘Metro Man’ feared the worst for new harbour rail tunnels
The man regarded as the architect of Sydney’s new driverless metro rail network recalls the day he got a phone call that instantly caused him alarm.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
Passengers on Sydney’s new metro line surge beyond opening day numbers
Commuters travelling on double-deck trains from the Central Coast are switching to metro services at Epping and Chatswood to get into the CBD faster.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
Can Sydneysiders reclaim their lunch hour? Four reporters put the metro to the test
As Sydneysiders welcome the arrival of the metro, designed to shorten travel times and make it easier to get around the city, four Herald reporters set out to test the limitations of their lunch hour.
- by Emily Kaine, Ricky Blank, Cindy Yin and Frances Howe
Analysis
‘We can re-humanise the city’: The metro’s unrealised promise for Sydney
For once, the rhetoric is justified – but planning and policy choices will be required for Sydney to make the most out of its expensive and impressive new toy.
- by Michael Koziol
Why the game has changed for Sydney’s new mega metro line
A new inter-peak period will be created in the middle of the day for the mega train line which is due to open in less than two weeks.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
Analysis
How new metro line links Sydneysiders to the rest of the globe
The new metro is overlaid along what’s known as Sydney’s global economic corridor and will help power more than 41 per cent of the state’s economic output.
- by Matt Wade
Sydney metro rail line’s opening on August 4 goes down to the wire
The rail safety regulator is yet to grant approval, just 10 days before the first passengers are due to hop on board.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
Threading the needle: How engineers crammed new metro lines beneath Sydney CBD
Working out the alignment and depth of the new metro was a complex balancing act as its tunnels passed within 1.2 metres of existing infrastructure.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
What became the greatest threat to this new Sydney metro train station
Crows Nest was one of the most difficult of six new underground stations to be built for Sydney’s $21.6 billion metro rail line under the heart of the city.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
How the metro has transformed people’s commutes
It’s been quite the journey to get to Monday’s opening of the second section of the M1 Metro. Here’s what commuters who use the north-western section of the line want you to know.
- by Anthony Segaert
Opinion
Sydney’s new Metro launches today, but it’s missing something dear to me
Since May 2019, North West Metro commuters have been greeted by a series of questions, affirmations and the to-do list of a not very busy person.
- by Mary Ward
He ran Europe’s second-busiest rail line. Now he’ll oversee one of Sydney’s
As Australians flock to the Olympics, Paris has opened a major new driverless rail extension just weeks before Sydney cuts the ribbon on its own.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
The metro will transform this Sydney suburb but not everyone’s on board
Waterloo will be the suburb the metro rail line helped revamp, if the state government can pull off its plan to redevelop the surrounding public housing estate.
- by Megan Gorrey
Opinion
May Sydney’s future citizens never know pain of sitting in soul-crushing traffic
Sydney’s transport YouTuber extraordinaire gives his verdict on the new metro extension: Beats the car.
- by Sharath Mahendran
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