Unlike London, all of Sydney's suburban lines now traverse the CBD, so there is virtually no need for any further cross city connections from the outer suburbs. However, that doesn't mean to say that future track amplification wouldn't be required on existing lines to meet the increased patronage demand for future suburban extensions, such as a link to Badgerys Creek Airport. The only CBD extensions I would make for the existing network is for an express tunnel from Granville to Barangaroo to augment the Western Line and diversion of the Airport Line from the City Circle to a new terminus (St James perhaps). All other new inner city lines should be part of a segregated automated metro system.Metro was developed for cities like London, these didn't have mainline railways traversing the historic core, and London still doesn't. Sydney differs from many other global cities in a number of ways:
Edited 12 Dec 2017 13:04, 4 years ago, edited by Myrtone
Unlike London, all of Sydney's suburban lines now traverse the CBD, so there is virtually no need for any further cross city connections from the outer suburbs. However, that doesn't mean to say that future track amplification wouldn't be required on existing lines to meet the increased patronage demand for future suburban extensions, such as a link to Badgerys Creek Airport. The only CBD extensions I would make for the existing network is for an express tunnel from Granville to Barangaroo to augment the Western Line and diversion of the Airport Line from the City Circle to a new terminus (St James perhaps). All other new inner city lines should be part of a segregated automated metro system.Metro was developed for cities like London, these didn't have mainline railways traversing the historic core, and London still doesn't. Sydney differs from many other global cities in a number of ways:
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