SMH Transport articles

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Transport for NSW slammed for exessive secrecy over north-west rail link

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Sydney Trains ticket-sellers set to lose their jobs

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Rapid expansion: bus stops cut in plan for quicker system

More buses on major routes across Sydney will stop at fewer places, in an attempt to improve travel times.

A 20-year plan for the city's bus network, released on Thursday by Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian, aims to break the city's buses into three types of services: rapid, suburban and local.

Under the minister's plan for ''rapid'' services, many buses travelling on one of 13 routes across the city will stop in locations about 800 metres to one kilometre apart, a much wider distance than current stops ...

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/rapid-expansion-bus-stops-cut-in-plan-for-quicker-system-20131211-2z6g9.html

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Windsor Road bridge plans for low impact

A 270-metre cable bridge over Windsor Road near Rouse Hill will be built as part of the $8.3 billion north-west rail link.

The O'Farrell government announced on Wednesday it had signed the second major construction contract for its centrepiece public transport project, the 23- kilometre train line linking Epping and Rouse Hill.

The $340 million contract signed with Italian consortium Impregilo-Salini is to build a four kilometre so-called skytrain, or raised section of rail line, between Bella Vista and Rouse Hill ...

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/windsor-road-bridge-plans-for-low-impact-20131218-2zlhk.html

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Sydney Morning Herald --> New tram line: City of Sydney council wants extra stop in Surry Hills

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Burning smell detected before train derailed

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Light rail price set to drop after extension

Half-price concession tickets will be offered on Sydney's light rail line for the first time when the line's extension from Lilyfield to Dulwich Hill opens in March.

But students will not be able to travel for free on the line on the way to and from school - at least initially.

Under the fare structure for the extension of the light rail line, people travelling to the city from its furthest point at Dulwich Hill will not have to pay any more than people who currently use the line from Lilyfield.

The current maximum fares of $4.60 one way and $6.20 return will remain on the line, which will offer a new way of travelling through the inner west from Dulwich Hill through Lewisham and Leichhardt to Lilyfield.

And the concession structure of the light rail line will finally be brought into line with other forms of transport in Sydney ...

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/light-rail-price-set-to-drop-after-extension-20140127-31iy9.html

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Buses the big killers of pedestrians in Sydney's CBD: road safety manager

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Locked axle likely cause of Edgecliff derailment

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Sydney Morning Herald --> NSW government set to pocket $1m a week from airport rail link

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Sydney Airport rail travel: new fees proposed

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Double-decker trains a mistake for Sydney: O'Farrell

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Drivers face dangerous monotony in long tunnels

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Sydney's new train map likely to confuse visitors, experts warn

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Better public transport makes for a smarter Sydney

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Sydney Morning Heral --> WestConnex prediction: buses will double in speed

Buses at double speed?

The NSW government says it could double the speed buses get down Parramatta Road by 2034. But how?

Rest assured, frustrated Sydney bus commuters: your bus will somehow start travelling almost twice as fast in the next few years.

Or at least that is what the state government is assuming as part of its promise to improve public transport along the route of the WestConnex motorway.

Included in the promotional material for the $13 billion WestConnex is a prediction by the state government that the motorway will "almost halve" the bus journey time from Burwood to the city along Parramatta Road.

Using freedom of information laws, Fairfax Media requested the assumptions for this prediction ...

More --> http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/westconnex-prediction-buses-will-double-in-speed-20140430-zr1ri.html

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Just $1m of promised $40m spent on Sydney train station security upgrades

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Vivid goes on, but ferries pull a plug over pay deadlock

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Don't pay the ferryman? Actually, the moochers are on the buses

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Sydney Morning Herald --> North Sydney cautious about plans to fix Military Road traffic

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Police target public transport crime

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Planned new rail line would cut direct trains from inner west to Redfern, Sydney University

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Transfer to an Illawarra local train at Sydneyham.  Derrrrrr.

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Transfer to an Illawarra local train at Sydneyham.  Derrrrrr.

Or a George St bus at Central and avoid the long walk from Redfern, if you're coming from the north.  Depends on the station location at Central though.

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Sydney Morning Herald --> NSW government must proceed with caution on the sale of rail lines

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Sydney Trains 'refresh' 28 stations for $33 million

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Sydney Morning Herald --> NSW government cancels high-security trains

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Tolls on western Sydney motorists likely to fund roads in inner west and north

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Manly ferries may be offered for private charter

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Sydney Morning Herald --> NSW Premier Mike Baird looks to crowdsourcing to solve Sydney's traffic problems

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Sydney train drivers left in communications void by delays to safety upgrade

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Western Sydney is the world's 'infrastructure capital', says NSW Premier Mike Baird

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Sydney Trains takes cleaning back in house after cancelling Transfield contract

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Railways staff vote to remove clause preventing forced redundancies

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Plenty more for the Transport Minister to tackle

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Sydney renewal project at Eveleigh likely to be scaled back

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Sydney Morning Herald --> $1 billion Circular Quay development kicks off

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Sydney's road and rail tunnels will require a million truck movements to cart the spoil

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Sydney Morning Herald --> Jockeying begins over new train stations for Sydney University or Waterloo