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A city-bound peak hour service on the M1 metro line between Crows Nest and the CBD on Monday morning.

Revealed: Sydney’s busiest metro stations during the morning rush

New data shows commuter numbers have swelled beyond prediction on the busiest section of the M1 line.

  • Matt O'Sullivan

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An artist’s impression of how the area around the SRL’s Clayton station might look.

Fewer car parks, more fees: The Melbourne suburbs facing a ‘car lite’ overhaul

Strict parking space limits could be imposed on suburbs with SRL stations, including Cheltenham, Clayton, Box Hill, Monash, Glen Waverley and Burwood.

  • Daniella White
A worker walks through one of the twin tunnels under Rosehill Racecourse near Parramatta.

Cost blowout risk hangs over Sydney’s largest metro rail project

The Metro West rail line between the CBD and Parramatta is due to be completed by 2032, which is two years later than previous forecasts.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Premier Jacinta Allan at the Metro Tunnel site on Thursday inspecting the project.

‘No place for this’: New CFMEU boss slams Metro Tunnel ‘ghost shift’ scandal

The new boss of Victoria’s embattled construction union has lashed out at those allegedly responsible for corrupting the Allan government’s giant project.

  • Nick McKenzie and Sarah Danckert
The Oculus in New York.

This New York train station was the world’s most expensive. Sunshine may have it beat

The architecturally splendid Oculus, at New York’s rebuilt World Trade Centre, cost $US4 billion to build. Sunshine station could give the record a nudge.

  • Chip Le Grand
Workers in the new $11 billion metro rail line to Western Sydney Airport.

These Sydney metro rail extensions have been pushed out to the 2040s – if they go ahead

Those crying out for metro extensions in Sydney’s west face a long wait before construction starts - even if the government commits to them.

  • Matt O'Sullivan and Michael McGowan
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Senior project manager Daniel Boylan on part of a 180-metre-long tunnel boring machine beneath Rosehill.

Sydney’s metro extension might not be open by Christmas

How long the final section’s open will be delayed hinges on testing of driverless metro trains over coming months.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Community assets manager Andrew Killingsworth deep inside St James station’s abandoned southern tunnels.

Sydney’s ghost tunnels are finally ready to reveal their secrets

The abandoned tunnels at St James station will be opened to daily ticketed tours – almost 100 years after they were completed.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
An artist’s impression of a new bridge over the Maribyrnong River, to be built as part of the Melbourne Airport Rail project.

Airport rail back on track after $2 billion federal lifeline

The prime minister has pledged funding to the project as Labor looks to sandbag its heartland in Melbourne’s west ahead of the federal election.

  • Kieran Rooney, Rachel Eddie and Chip Le Grand
Drew Dowsley was struck by a train in September, just hours after he was turned away from Gosford Hospital in a state of psychosis. He miraculously survived, and now his family is launching campaign with his mother Helen Dowsley to ensure the tragedy does not happen to anyone else. Helen and Drew looking at old photos of Drew as a child, at their home in Mittagong, Tuesday 4th of February 2025. Photo: Dion Georgopoulos / The Sydney Morning Herald

Drew was in crisis when he was hit by a train. His family want answers

Five months after Drew Dowsley’s miracle survival, his mother Helen still doesn’t understand why he was allowed to leave a NSW hospital in his darkest hour.

  • Angus Thomson

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