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The Australian: Berejiklian’s light rail to be caught short in peak hour

Oct 24, 2017News

Reported today in the Australian, it has been revealed that 1000 Sydney commuters will be left stranded on the very first day it opens in 2019.

The Australian, Andrew Clennell

When NSW Premier Gladys ­Berejiklian’s controversial $2.1 billion CBD light rail opens in 2019, it will have 1000 more people wanting to use it than what her Transport Minister has said is its capacity.

Documents obtained under freedom of information show that in a Transport for NSW “CBD and South East Light Rail Project Benefits Realisation Plan”, dated April 2015, the document puts demand for the light rail at “14,547 morning peak one-hour demand growing at an annual rate of 1 per cent to 16,935 in 2036’’.

Yet in an answer to a question on notice from a budget estimates committee delivered last month, Transport Minister Andrew Constance said that from early 2019 light rail would have 15 services operating in each direction per hour, “meaning total hourly cap­acity is 13,500 in both directions”.

Read more in The Australian.

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