It’s easy to complain about what’s wrong with Sydney public transport, so how would you improve the current system?
Perhaps you’ve got ideas for new lines, staffing, operating hours, changes to ticketing – maybe you’ve got some good reasons why the entire system should be free!
Here’s your chance to let State Government know how you’d do a better job.
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Use a highly recognizable icon, such as London Transport’s Underground one, for CityRail entrances. Some are very hard to notice. Also, CityRail should run its best maintained trains on the airport line, instead of its worst, in order to give a good first impression.
More trains during peak hour.
Bring back trams!
I live in baulkham hills and I can’t complain
Adding air con.
Remove buses from CBD,introduce light rail, loading zones only until 9am. Remove some bike lanes.Create more pedestrian plazas.
having stood at the eddy ave bus stops, I can see why the gov wants to bring back trams..I counted 21 891 UNSW expresses leave FULL in 15 mins! Raceday is a nightmare in the east..Trams make sense!
Also, High Speed Rail through to Canberra..will open up Sydney’s catchment areas so that people can live further out and still work in the city
Yes, trams are a must even though we love to hate trams u have to Love their teams, the system just works.
I have just been living in Townsville. Sydney’s transport system is awsome to me at the moment as Townsville has very little. Maybe every body just expects to much.
Get experts from Japan, New York and London to overhaul our network. Build it out like a spiders web instead of the “star” it is now (where the centre is the city).
An example of inefficiency is catching a train from Lidcombe to Macquarie university – total travel time on train is 1.37 hrs. Total drive time (with traffic) 24 mins.
Another thing would be getting rid of those paper tickets… Come on Sydney, it’s like we’re lagging behind from the rest of the world, by 10 years!
I would also like to introduce a refund policy. If your train is late, your fare is refunded.
This increases the pressure to get trains in on time. It would make those comuters who just paid $5 – 10 to be late to work satisfied that they were not the only ones inconvienienced.
How about, when upgrading lines and adding more tracks, save future embarrassment by adding 2 or 3 lines rather than just 1 (which will already be insufficient by the time it’s complete), seriously.
Honestly, I have great respect for Sydney’s public transport – I am traveling around a lot from acting job to job and the City Rail trip planner is always my first choice – it works well, as does the whole system
remove the power of the transport workers union and you will achieve great improvements.