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The Wynyard Walk is a 180-metre-long (590 ft) pedestrian link and tunnel between Wynyard station and Barangaroo that opened in September 2016, [12] with a Clarence Street entrance that opened in December 2016.
Wynyard Walk provides a quick and safe route and has increased the entry and exit capacity of Wynyard station to meet demand as Barangaroo is redeveloped. An estimated 20,000 pedestrians per hour can walk through the tunnel. [2] In 2009, prior to construction of Barangaroo, the pedestrian tunnel was estimated to cost $100 million. [3]
Next was the "western limb" through Town Hall and Wynyard, which opened in 1932 in conjunction with the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. This section contains four tunnels. Two connected to the Harbour Bridge, while the two City Circle tunnels terminated at Wynyard.
Wynyard (/ ˈ w ɪ n j ər d /) is an urban locality adjacent to Wynyard railway station in the Sydney central business district of New South Wales, Australia. Wynyard is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney. The postcode is 2000. Wynyard Park is a prominent landmark in this area.
The line to St James station and Museum was opened in 1926, while the "western branch" of the City Circle through Town Hall and Wynyard opened in 1932, in conjunction with the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Circular Quay remained a "missing link" until 1956, when it connected the ends of the two underground branches via an elevated track.
Wynyard station's railway platforms are thus numbered 3–6. The line along Military Road, opened in September 1893, was the first permanent electric tramway in Sydney and New South Wales. The first part of the North Sydney tramway system was a double-track cable tramway which started at the original Milsons Point wharf , located where the ...
Seven in use dual line tunnels plus one single tunnel Kings Cross Tunnel: Kings Cross: Road: 274 899: Lane Cove Tunnel: Lane Cove: M2 Motorway: Road: 3,600 11,800: Long Island: Hawkesbury River station: Main North line: Rail: 263 863: Two tunnels; one Disused single track tunnel used for storage and a Double track, in use, adjacent Malaita ...
The final contract for the line involved approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) of single track tunnel structures and crossovers, four underground stations (Martin Place, Kings Cross, Edgecliff and Bondi Junction; Town Hall already existed and Central was partially complete) and one surface station (Woollahra, in a cutting), two 772-metre (2,533 ...