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EP. 1286 SYDNEY'S LARGEST INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT SINCE THE HARBOUR BRIDGE... LET'S TALK ABOUT IT
Ever wondered how Sydney's biggest public transport project is reshaping the city? Tune in to hear about the Sydney Metro, a marvel bigger than the Harbour Bridge, already boasting a million riders in its first week! We share our firsthand experiences and discuss how this revolutionary, fully automated driverless system is creating a buzz, with new metro stations and a network of escalators that will leave you in awe. Discover the ripple effects on local businesses, from shops to restaurants, and the significant decongestion of Sydney’s traditional train system.
We'll also break down the benefits of the Metro’s two lines: the existing Metro Northwest and the newly opened Metro City and Southwest. Imagine trains arriving every four minutes during peak hours and transporting 40,000 passengers in each direction! Whether you're traveling from Chatswood through the CBD to Bankstown or just navigating the bustling city, the Metro is making commuting faster and more reliable. Get ready for a deep dive into how this monumental project is transforming Sydney's future and improving daily life for everyone.
This is Australia's largest public transport infrastructure project. Stay tuned, we're going to tell you more. It's bigger than the Harbour Bridge.
Speaker 2:You can't even spell infrastructure.
Speaker 1:Just stay tuned, we're going to talk about it. Okay, okay, this is nuts. This is crazy, crazy stuff. You can't spell infrastructure. I might have copied and pasted it wrong.
Speaker 2:I-N-F-R-A-S. Infra, infrastructure, infra. You know what, when megastructures make you money, this is a perfect example. Until I jumped on this puppy on Friday. Until I saw the news that a million people have ridden it in one week, I was like hang on a sec. This has got to be really good news for Sydney, really good news.
Speaker 1:So you've been on. We're talking about new sydney metro. If you um haven't seen the beautiful example behind me, this is what it looks like, but you've been on it firsthand. I haven't been on it yet.
Speaker 2:Your experience slick, slick, yeah slick more escalators than I ever I've ever seen as in like you're going down a long way, yeah, yeah yeah, like you, escalate, escalate, escalate escalator. Shop's not open down there, but boy, this is a whopper of a project and boy people. Syd Sydney exploded over the last week.
Speaker 1:It was reported shops, restaurants, businesses, absolute pumping as a result of our Metro opening. Yeah right, no-transcript, which is obviously a demand there for it. And this is open up. Yeah, some interesting facts. So this is Australia's largest public transport project.
Speaker 2:Sounds good. I think it's. You know, when you look at something like the Olympics and the infrastructure benefits that we get from stuff like that, like this is uh, this is bigger, um, than they say. The harbour bridge is as big and significant as when the harbour bridge opened. So you know it's, it's, it's the community. And and what people don't realize is they think, ah, metro, who cares? It has a, it has so many knock-on effects, it's ridiculous. So if you're on a train and you do not get the metro, guess what? The whole train system's unclogging, um, as a result of the metro. So there are people that have a choice of both. They opt for the metro, they don't get the train.
Speaker 1:Everyone who gets a train benefits from less people taking the train yeah, I think it's improved um the capacity in peak hour when you're getting around, it's improved um, hopefully the service as well, on both in terms of being reliable and things like that. But a little bit of info about the new stuff. I'm just reading some notes from the phone consists of two lines. You've got the metro northwest line, which was an existing one, and then the new one being the sydney metro city and southwest. So that's been. That's the one that's been extended out to from chatswood through the cbd onto bankstown. That's the one that's just opened out from Chatswood through the CBD onto Bankstown.
Speaker 2:That's the one that's just opened and even just if you're hardcore in the city and you're fanging around the city, you can just get to one part of the city, to the other part of the city without having to jump into a taxi, into an Uber, into your car. Again, it's just the knock-on effect, for this thing is massive, massive, massive massive.
Speaker 1:Now it's fully automated driverless. How was that? Did you notice it?
Speaker 2:Nah, so it should be. It's 2024.
Speaker 1:But these things are coming in peak hour every four minutes, so it's super efficient and I was pretty impressed. It's supposed to take 40,000 passengers in peak hour each direction.
Speaker 2:Solid. You know what? Less cars on the road. Pretty cool, hey.
Speaker 1:There's a whole bunch of punters.
Speaker 2:That's a whole bunch of punters that were jumping in their cars to go to work because they it was just the fastest way. You introduce a faster way called the Metro. You don't take the car. You don't take the car, you're helping everyone that's driving on the roads because there's less cars on the roads yeah, yeahwise, they reckon this was over $20 billion Big investment.
Speaker 1:And then the key stations. The major new stations which you might have jumped in at are Barangaroo, martin Place, pitt Street, waterloo and Interchanges, like the key sort of hub to the central station.
Speaker 2:One thing did upset me, though. What, like, if you're going to call a train station a name, call it so the community can identify with it straight away, as in Like there's a train station in the middle of the city, named something that I don't even know why they named Like I'm like where is that? I don't even know where that is. So I think they should have they should be. If you're going to name a train station, call it a geographic name, or call it an area where you know where it is, like Martin Place or Wynyard or like you know, and then it's like okay, I know where I am. So there's a train station sitting in the middle of the city that I don't know where it is because they've named it something. I don't know what it means. I think it's an Aboriginal name, with all due respect.
Speaker 1:It could be it could have another meaning. Now, this is, of course, environmentally friendly. They are energy efficientefficient systems. Good to know. Did you notice the green spaces around the stations? Nah, it's all concrete rock. Okay, and there is future expansions, so the future lines could connect up to this Sydney Western Sydney Airport. Yeah, so I?
Speaker 2:read 2030, 2030, we've got something coming, and I think, 2025, we've got another 26, we've got something else coming. So this is another installation of, and there's a couple more parts after this. Pretty big win for our city, pretty big win for property, commuters, workers. Bit of fun. I think it's fun that you could rock around different parts of our city without friction.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I think that's all my fun facts for today, but I'm keen to get out there and give it a go.
Speaker 2:It felt new, new, it felt efficient yeah, look, I, I just I.
Speaker 2:I think that the like um and something that I I feel really passionate about is the people that worked on it that are no longer around. So, someone like barris bergoglian what's her name, the lady I think you said it well, um, I don't think I did, but like this is, there are a lot of people that were absolutely key, that were in government, that made this happen, that are not in power anymore, still around, um, and respect to the people that made it happen, because some people really hung their hat up on these jobs and and and they put their neck out, um, you know when it, when it was getting, when it was getting introduced, and they said this is a good thing, we should do it with the risk of of losing votes and jobs. These guys said, no, our city needs it. They insisted, they made it happen. They found budget, money, funding towards it, and well done to those people out there, people like Barrasepo Djiglian, gladys Gladys, barry Djiglian.
Speaker 1:But yeah, it's true. It's's true. These obviously take a lot of planning, long, long time in the pipeline. Can't deliver a 20 billion dollar project overnight.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, it's nice to see the fruits of all their labor yep, absolutely good on everyone behind it the workers that have been in there day and night for years and years and years, the politicians that got behind it. In conception it would have been a crazy, crazy idea. And then you look at it years later it's like, yeah, of course, but they've done a lot of heavy lifting those sort of infrastructure projects, and so will the Metro, so it's just the knock-on effect it's just incredible that people miss out on. But I think, as the years compound'll see, it's just just a beautiful, you know, piece of machinery I'm excited to go try it now get out there, billy.
Speaker 2:Actually, what I want to do is sort of just go sit on their full stop and just see where it takes me. You know, jump on, go back, just hang like. Go to the extremes of the metro, that'd be cool because I was like I was only on it for like two stops yep, yeah, yeah, one instant yeah, get out there, go, give it a go, have a great day well done, sydney. Congratulations sydney metro. Thanks man. Well done, gladys. What a legend. Bye.