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The signage situation at Central Station.

Memo to Transport: It’s not compulsory to ruin every beautiful thing

We just spent $1.3 billion making Central Station beautiful. But now, out of apparent safety concerns, we appear intent on ruining it.

  • Anthony Segaert

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The M12 motorway will provide a link to the new Western Sydney Airport.

Construction of motorway to Sydney’s new airport hits financial bumps – again

The cost of the 16-kilometre motorway to Western Sydney International Airport has steadily risen over the past five years.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Worker Isra Nand carries out welding repairs to a bendy bus at a maintenance facility at Smithfield in Sydney’s west.

Inside the yard where Sydney’s bendy buses are being put back together again

Moving the doors on 83 buses found to have cracks is critical to easing chronic delays for commuters on the northern beaches and north shore.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Josie Lehmann and Isla Eade train in Blackwattle Bay.

‘Like putting a highway across a park’: The problem with the fish market ferry plan

Sydney’s rowers and kayakers are worried about being run over by ferries.

  • Megan Gorrey
Laing O’Rourke is using digital modelling to figure out how it can improve facilities at railway stations.

Ditch the phone: Five healthier ways to spend your time on public transport

Sick of the daily doomscroll on your morning commutes? Here are some other options if you want a digital detox from your phone.

  • Cindy Yin
Commuters pack a city-bound metro train during the morning peak.

Trains are packed on these Sydney metro stops in the morning peak

An extra 14 trains would need to be ordered by the government to increase frequency to one every three minutes and ease crowding.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
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The XPT trains have been running since the early 1980s.

They should have been retired by now. Here’s why we’re stuck with XPTs

People who rely on trains to travel long distances in NSW and interstate are paying the price for troubled fleet replacement projects.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
A metro train runs through the new section of track between Campsie and Sydenham for the first time.

First metro train rolls along the final stage of Sydney’s $21.6b line

The first metro journey marks the start of more than 6500 hours of testing which will determine when the line opens to passengers next year. 

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Door flies open on a Sydney Metro train during peak hour on Wednesday.

Metro passengers left hanging on as door stays open on driverless train

The dramatic incident occurred on a packed city-bound train during peak hour on Wednesday morning.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Footage posted to social media shows passengers hanging onto railings while a man who appears to be a metro staff member speaks into a two-way radio as the incident folds unfolds. Credit: x.com/bendrives and reddit user @Aggressive-Move-4725.
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Metro passengers left hanging on as door flies open on driverless train

Footage posted to social media shows passengers hanging onto railings while a man who appears to be a metro staff member speaks into a two-way radio as the incident folds unfolds. Credit: x.com/bendrives and reddit user @Aggressive-Move-4725.

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