Sydney\u2019s new underground CBD metro railway stations are taking shape about 25 metres under the centre of the city where new platform caverns and pedestrian tunnels are being excavated.
\nThe gamechanging Sydney Metro City & Southwest project is the first new rail line through Sydney since the 1970s and will massively cut travel times for commuters across the whole system.
\nThe Sydney Metro projects in the Northwest, City & Southwest have also created more than 20,000 jobs, while the NSW Government\u2019s record infrastructure program has created more than 100,000 jobs.
\nPremier Gladys Berejiklian and Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Andrew Constance today met some of the Sydney Metro workers and had the first look at major construction work at the Martin Place Metro Station.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s incredible to see the progress that\u2019s been made by machines and workers underground with thousands of pedestrians moving aboveground,\u201d Ms Berejiklian said.
\n\u201cTwo roadheader tunnelling machines are working 24-7 to excavate the new Martin Place station, which stretches underground between Hunter Street and Martin Place.
\n\u201cThis project is really taking shape and when it opens, customers in the heart of Sydney\u2019s CBD will be more connected than ever before.\u201d
\nMr Constance said the Martin Place metro platform caverns will be about 220 metres long, 16 metres high and 14 metres wide when fully lined with concrete.
\n\u201cRoadheaders and about 95 workers have already excavated more than 166,620 tonnes of crushed rock at Martin Place \u2013 enough to fill about 26 Olympic swimming pools,\u201d Mr Constance said.
\n\u201cThey are also digging underground pedestrian connections to the existing Eastern Suburbs Line, making it easier to get around our great city.
\n\u201cThis once again shows that only the NSW Liberals & Nationals Government will deliver Metro rail across Sydney.
\n\u201cWhen Labor was last in office they announced 12 rail projects. They did not deliver a single one in full and they are already promising to cancel the Sydenham to Bankstown Metro upgrade.\u201d
\nSydney Metro will deliver a turn-up-and-go train service up to every two minutes to the four train stations being built in the Sydney CBD \u2013 Martin Place, Pitt Street, Barangaroo and Central.
\nSydney Metro Northwest is on track to open in the coming months and is at least half a billion dollars under budget. It includes 13 Metro stations and 4000 commuter car parking spaces.
\nMetro rail is being extended from the north west, into the CBD and beyond to Bankstown in 2024, delivering Sydney 31 metro stations and a 66km standalone metro railway line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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