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First launched in late 2012, Opal is valid on Transport for NSW's metro, train, bus, ferry and light rail services that operate in Sydney and the neighbouring Central Coast, Hunter Region, Blue Mountains, Illawarra and Southern Highlands areas. Opal equipment was designed from the start to support a variety of cards, but launched with the ...
These regions were declared and appeared in the NSW Government Gazette on 1 August 2008. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Unlike the Sydney Metropolitan Bus Service Contracts which are put out to open tender, the government has indicated it does not intend to go down this path with the OSMBSCs, but negotiate with the incumbent operators.
There are currently 21 Sydney Metro stations open and 52 kilometres (32 mi) of track. [3] [4] When current construction is complete, there will be 46 metro stations and 113 kilometres (70 mi) of track. [5] The first section of the Sydney Metro, the Sydney Metro Northwest project, opened on 26 May 2019 between Tallawong and Chatswood. [5]
Sydney Metro is a fully automated rapid transit rail system in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.It currently consists of the Metro North West & Bankstown Line, running between Tallawong and Sydenham and consisting of 21 stations on 52 km (32 mi) of twin tracks, mostly underground.
As a result, the contract to install and operate the integrated ticketing project, or Tcard, as the plan became known, was finalised and awarded to the ERG Group at the end of 2002. In 2005, a limited trial of the technology involving school children using the School Student Transport Scheme was undertaken, and expanded to cover all private ...
The Metro Northwest and Bankstown Line (numbered M1) is a rapid transit rail line in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.The first and currently only line on the Sydney Metro network, it commenced operation on 26 May 2019, originally running between Tallawong and Chatswood, before the line was extended on 19 August 2024 to Sydenham.
Metro Trains Sydney Pty. Limited (MTS) is the operator of the Sydney Metro North West & Bankstown Line. It is a joint venture between Hong Kong–based MTR Corporation, John Holland Group and UGL Rail formed in September 2014. It operates the network with a fleet of 45 Alstom Metropolis trains under a 15-year contract. [2] [3]
When the region was established in 2005, services were operated by the Area 3 Management Company consortium of incumbent operators Baxter's Bus Lines, Busabout, Hopkinsons, Metro-link and Westbus which operated all routes except Liverpool–Parramatta T-way route T80 which was operated by Western Sydney Buses. Baxter's sold its routes to ...