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Sydney Metro – Australia’s biggest public transport project
In 2024, Sydney will have 31 metro stations and more than 66 kilometres of new metro rail, revolutionising the way Australia’s biggest city travels construction jobs, including 250 apprentices. This contract will employ a range of civil engineering trades and specialist services including drainage and ground workers, steel-fixers and concrete workers, earthmoving plant operators, truck drivers, piling contractors, crane operators, general labourers, pre-cast operators, surveillance officers and security guards. The contract is expected to be awarded in the first quarter of 2022. The Australian and NSW governments are jointly delivering the 23 kilometre-metro railway and six stations between St Marys and the Western Sydney Aerotropolis, including two stations at the airport.
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Credit: NSW Government / Sydney Metro
ydney Metro is a once-in-ageneration infrastructure project which will deliver exceptional benefits for the communities it serves by improving liveability, enhancing productivity and promoting connectivity across the Greater Sydney region. Faster journey times and an extended public transport network will allow people to be more connected to job centres and educational institutions and ultimately deliver more opportunities for communities. By the end of the decade, the network will be expanded to include 46 stations and more than 113 kilometres of world-class metro for Sydney. Sydney Metro, together with signalling and infrastructure upgrades across the existing Sydney rail network, will increase the capacity of train services entering the Sydney CBD – from about 120 an hour today to up to 200 services beyond 2024. That’s an increase of up to 60 per cent capacity across the network to meet demand.
Technology will keep customers connected at all stages of their journey, from: • Planning at home using smart phone travel apps. • Real time journey information at metro stations and on board trains. • Accessing information and other public transport to help get to their final destination after they leave the train. • This approach will help customers achieve their daily tasks, whether it’s getting to work, meetings, school or education, sport, a day out or running errands and of course, getting home. Two organisations, CPB Contractors Pty Ltd and Acciona Construction Australia Pty Ltd, have been shortlisted to deliver key construction work. The successful tenderer will build more than ten kilometres of viaducts, bridges and embankments that will support railway tracks and associated infrastructure. The project will support 14,000
Connecting Sydney When Sydney Metro is extended into the central business district (CBD) and beyond in 2024, metro rail will run from Sydney’s booming North West region under Sydney Harbour, through new underground stations in the CBD and beyond to the south west. There will be ultimate capacity for a metro train every two minutes in each direction under the city, a level of service never before seen in Sydney. Sydney’s new metro railway will have a target capacity of about 40,000 customers per hour, similar to other metro systems worldwide. Sydney’s current suburban system can reliably carry 24,000 people an hour per line.
Credit: NSW Government / Sydney Metro Rail Professional
