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[NSW] Free Travel between Tallawong and Chatswood Stations, Sunday May 26 on Sydney Metro

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[NSW] Free Travel between Tallawong and Chatswood Stations, Sunday May 26 on Sydney Metro
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neil on 22/05/2019 - 13:40 transportnsw.info (1516 clicks)

The new Sydney Metro will be free this Sunday 26 May, when the service opens. You can have free travel between Tallawong and Chatswood metro stations to see Australia’s first driverless railway system.

Good for gunzels mostly or those who want to checkout Tallawong or Chatswood.

All Sydney Metro stations will open just after 11am on Sunday. The last metro service will leave Chatswood at 10.05pm and Tallawong at 9.35pm.

The Opal gates at the 13 Metro North West Line stations will be open to allow free travel. If you are travelling on the Metro only, you won't need to tap on or tap off.

However, if you are travelling on other public transport, StationLink and North West Night Bus services, or are going beyond Chatswood or Epping on the Sydney Trains network, you will need to tap on and off at each station. Normal Sunday fares apply.

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  • Yanoflies on 22/05/2019 - 13:42
    +3

    That $2.80 saving IF you don't have to travel to one of the Metro stations, lol.

    • howaaronic on 23/05/2019 - 15:02
      +1

      Sunday Funday caps at $2.70!

  • neilpatrickharris on 22/05/2019 - 13:43
    +2

    I don't live on the line, but if I went to check it out by train it would've been free anyway as I'd have paid the $2.7 Sunday cap just to get there

  • laser on 22/05/2019 - 14:19
    +4

    Whats a Tallawong?

    • impoze on 22/05/2019 - 14:36
      +2

      Tallawong station is the one next to Schofields Road, next to The Ponds.

      It's also the last station on the line.

    • edda1801 on 22/05/2019 - 14:43
      +10

      I believe it's an old old ship used in the civil war era.

      • orangetrain on 22/05/2019 - 19:19
        +1

        Apparently there was a civil war in Australia, TIL

        • AlexF on 22/05/2019 - 19:59
          +1

          Apparently there was a civil war in Australia,

          Aboriginals Vs settlers - does that count?

          • Munki on 22/05/2019 - 21:02
            +1

            @AlexF: That was hardly a war and more of a genocide.

    • bobz79 on 22/05/2019 - 19:44

      Ponds would have been a better name - easy to remember and say!

      It was the initial plan, wonder why they changed!!

      • Hybroid on 22/05/2019 - 19:46

        It was originally Cudgegong Road station before the rename.

      • Neoika on 23/05/2019 - 07:24

        The location is within Rouse Hill, not the Ponds.

    • jaclarkaus on 23/05/2019 - 07:31

      Brother of Penny Wong

  • [Deactivated] on 22/05/2019 - 15:05

    fun times

  • ksama0079 on 22/05/2019 - 15:36
    +2

    expect massive crowd.

    • pull the lever on 22/05/2019 - 22:58
      +1

      Just wait till peak hour Monday…

  • alvian on 22/05/2019 - 15:50
    +1

    The transport of the future stops working at 10:05 on a Sunday evening? What about this 24-hour city they want Sydney to become? Car congestion at midnight?

    • abc on 22/05/2019 - 16:25

      Probably a security risk to have unstaffed sunken or underground stations and robotic trains running in the hours where some people become stupid :P

      • Hybroid on 22/05/2019 - 19:47

        Metro stations are unstaffed anyway. They'll have roaming staff/customer service assistants across the network. It's all controlled by remote control centre.

        • Associatedb3au @ Transport for NSW on 23/05/2019 - 00:21
          +2

          Actually, every Metro Station has a staff member, in addition to every train having a staff member onboard.

          The stations are actually staffed longer than Sydney Trains stations, with all of them starting before the first train and finishing after the last train. Some Sydney Trains stations are only staffed to cover the peaks.

          (Disclaimer: this comment is my own views and not that of my employer….)

          • Vote for Pedro on 23/05/2019 - 16:58

            @b3au: And my assumption is that both are based on Government direction (read: funding).

      • orangetrain on 22/05/2019 - 19:48
        +2

        No, pensioners gone to bed and don't want youth to have any ease of assembly at night.

    • Homr on 22/05/2019 - 19:19
      +7

      24 hour city? It died when the Government introduced the stupid lockout laws!

      • xoom on 23/05/2019 - 07:20
        -2

        Yeah well they wouldnt have introduced these draconian laws if people didnt get so plastered that they start fights, punching each others lights out. Etc. So you cant blame it all on the government. As you can see the common folk had a hand or foot pun intended in why the government felt the need to introduce lock out laws. Not saying i agree or disagree with it. Just stating cause and effect.

    • bobz79 on 22/05/2019 - 19:46
      +1

      I think only Maccas open 24hrs in the city! Everything else is done max by 2am

    • Associatedb3au @ Transport for NSW on 23/05/2019 - 00:23
      +2

      Only to start with - there's still overnight work happening for the next few months. The operating hours will be extended in the future - and trains run later from Thursday to Saturday under the current timetable

      (Disclaimer: this comment is my own views and not that of my employer….)

  • ouryou on 22/05/2019 - 15:56

    I've been planned to get the opening day ticket can I still buy the physical ticket on the opening day?

    • bobz79 on 22/05/2019 - 19:47

      What is physical ticket? Only Opal

  • klownvandamn on 22/05/2019 - 17:05

    only if keanu reeves is coming.

  • shortgum on 22/05/2019 - 17:38

    Great. nice move. will get us paid our $2.70 cap to get to chatswood to enjoy the free travel on the line on sunday. guess I will tapping my opal card all the way on the free line just for fun if even border to participate.

  • JIMB0 on 22/05/2019 - 18:02
    +2

    Possibly combine with the free VB deal at selected pubs.
    https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/458138

  • Vote for Pedro on 22/05/2019 - 19:02
    +6

    Nice, a line between nowhere I want to go and nowhere I need to be.

    • Hybroid on 22/05/2019 - 19:49
      +1

      For now. This is the start of a major new network linking Sydney's three cities vision. It's good to start somewhere.

      • Vote for Pedro on 22/05/2019 - 21:21
        +4

        Oh yeah, it’s heading to Bankstown. Wait, what, we’ve already got a line there?

        Meanwhile the M4 and Parramatta Rd are clogged. Tolls killing commuters and metro west to parramatta nowhere in sight. Yes, vested interest, I’m one of the poor suckers sitting in traffic ;-)

        • abc on 22/05/2019 - 21:27

          You could say that it's all about turning the Bankstown Line into a high density apartment block.

          • Hybroid on 22/05/2019 - 21:38

            @abc: Bankstown Line will eventually extend to Liverpool. This is just the beginning of a huge roadmap of routes.

            • Vote for Pedro on 22/05/2019 - 21:50
              +1

              @Hybroid: It may well be. But I’m struggling to see the benefit in ripping up existing infrastructure to replace with metro vs building something where we have nothing (and that nothing has shtloads of congestion)

              • Associatedb3au @ Transport for NSW on 23/05/2019 - 00:18

                @Vote for Pedro: Technically nothing is getting ripped up, except perhaps the signalling system.

                Even things like the overhead wiring aren't changing, and the tracks remain the same - the gauge hasn't changed.

                (Disclaimer: These views are my own, not of my employer….)

    • [Deactivated] on 23/05/2019 - 07:32
      -5

      Most indians migrants live on these lines. This is where they go.

  • [Deactivated] on 22/05/2019 - 22:36

    Any good stations to visit on the day :-)?

    • pull the lever on 22/05/2019 - 22:57

      All of them if you're into modern architecture…

      • xoom on 23/05/2019 - 07:22

        I just might ride the train to these stations just to see what these stations look like.

  • SpotTheOzzie on 23/05/2019 - 00:10
    +1

    Town Hall to Straithfield is already bursting at the seams with z-tier infastructure.

    Really excited to see how much this dead horse can be flogged during peak hour yeehaw.

    • Vote for Pedro on 23/05/2019 - 10:29

      How frequent do these things show up?

      • SpotTheOzzie on 23/05/2019 - 10:37

        Monday to Friday, 7:30 - 9:30 and 16:50 - 19:00.

      • brnaodn on 23/05/2019 - 12:32

        Every 5 (4?) minutes peak
        Every 10 minutes off peak
        And then the excess train capacity from the lines which this is replacing can hopefully increase the frequency of other lines

        • Vote for Pedro on 23/05/2019 - 13:11
          +1

          I was trying to decipher timetables as I don’t use the trains that often. Isn’t what they’ve got on the poshy north shore line already better than the metro. Is it every 3 minutes on those slow double deckers that fit more people? That means this flash new billion $$$ train carriers fewer people at less frequency? Is that right?

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