Australia's biggest public transport project
A dawn of a new era, transforming how we get around our great, global city.
Welcome to Sydney Metro
The great engineering marvels of last century, led by visionaries like John Bradfield have
guided our city's growth and now a new, mass transit system will help shape Sydney into the 21st century,
transforming our city with a world-class Metro.
National engineering experts have named the Sydney Metro bridge at Rouse Hill, global project of the year,
beating 23 other projects in 14 countries.
Inspired by other major integrated transport projects across the globe
like Hudson Yards in New York and the Crossrail metro system in London
and rivalling them in engineering excellence, with the customer at the centre of everything we do.
After eight years of tunnelling, track-laying and train-building, one of the world's most advanced railways
is now successfully in operation.
Sydney Metro Northwest opened on the 26th of May 2019.
High frequency, reliable and safe trains - customers don't need a timetable.
You just turn up and go.
It's another fast option hopefully to get to the city or wherever we want to go
it's always good to have an option and the fact that the trains will run so frequently it's really exciting.
Now from the Northwest the extension of Metro is already underway underway
under Sydney Harbour, through the heart of the city and beyond to Bankstown.
Tunnelling has started
the mega borers are back - and this time there's five.
In 2024, Sydney will have 31 metro stations and a new 66 km/h stand-alone railway
The first new railway crossing of Sydney Harbour in nearly 100 years.
New city stations, carefully threaded deep underground with new landmarks above
Creating new places and a world-scale transport outcomes.
The sort of standards in performance, they're definitely global class
the place-making, the difference we're making to communities, the way we're changing lives
that's definitely a global capability.
Linking the past with the future at the iconic Central Station
Transforming a century-old station while it's being used by two hundred and fifty thousand people a day
will be one of our greatest engineering challenges
and we're just getting started.
Construction work starts in 2020 on Sydney Metro West, to connect the centre of Sydney with a greater Parramatta area
while a new Metro railway will link Western Sydney's new international airport
to the rest of the city in 2026.
Sydney Metro is Australia's first fully automated metro railway
State-of-the-art operations, fast, safe and, reliable driverless trains
and Australian-first technology - like platform screen doors, keeping people and objects like prams safely away from the track
Capacity for a train every 2 minutes, in each direction, under the CBD.
It's the sort of service that you expect this day and age, so it takes us into that 21st century transport system for Sydney.
Every Metro station fully accessible for everyone, level access between platforms and trains
and dedicated spaces on trains for those less able, for parents with prams, for luggage and bicycles.
Some of the world's best minds have come together to make this transport system a reality,
from cutting-edge design technology.
To complex civil engineering
we didn't have the option to say "sorry but we don't want the curve"
And environmentally sustainable solutions -
This solar panel installation generates one million five hundred kilowatt hours of electricity per year.
Sydney Metro is nurturing the next generation of engineers, graduates and trainees
inspiring people of all ages to shape our future.
The structure I've actually been most involved with is
building track on the viaduct or what we call the 'sky train'
and also the baluster track between both viaducts, the work is very satisfying, I really enjoy it.
Much more than a fast and easy way to get around, Sydney Metro is a once-in-a-century opportunity
realising past legacies like Bradfield's grand transport vision and creating new ones.
It opens up employment opportunities, it opens up opportunities for schooling and education
really excited to shop as well, we don't have to fight the traffic into Macquarie or even Castle Towers
really excited about all those sort of options.
In future generations, Sydneysiders will look back and say
"wow we can't imagine Sydney without a metro system"
This is Sydney Metro
the biggest urban rail infrastructure investment in Australian history
for tomorrow's Sydney.