The NSW government has revealed the location for two new metro stations for the Sydney Metro West line in the city centre and at Pyrmont.
Requiring the compulsory acquisition of 11 commercial buildings in the CBD and two in Pyrmont, the stations will be positioned to cut travel times and offer greater choice of transport in the city, the government said.
“There will now be four stations in the CBD, allowing people to change trains, to go to any destination they want to go and to really make sure that we don’t have those crowds that you see often in the existing stations,” premier Gladys Berejiklian said at a press conference.
A station will be built at Hunter Street in the CBD, with entrances on the corner of Hunter and George streets and Bligh and O’Connell streets, and the Pyrmont station will be built between Pyrmont Bridge Road and Union Street, on land currently belonging to the Star casino. A spokesperson for the casino told the Sydney Morning Herald the compulsory acquisition its property risks derailing its plans for a 140-metre hotel tower at the site.
The proposed new Pyrmont station.
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Sydney Metro
The Metro West project will link the CBD to Parramatta and Westmead, and is expected to be completed by 2030.
Transport Minister Andrew Constance said the line would transform transport options in the city.
“If you look at some of the travel time savings, this is going to be phenomenal,” he said. Less than 15 minutes between the heart of the city and Sydney Olympic Park; four minutes from Parramatta to Sydney Olympic park.”
In regards to the property acquisitions, Constance told reporters that they would involve commercial, not residential buildings.
“We will be assigning managers to each of those individual commercial tenants and business owners to help through this process but I want to thank them and acknowledge that they’re going to be sacrificing so much for the rest of the state, this is a big project,” he said.
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