From around 1600h. till around 1800h. (at least), public transport collapsed in the CBD north of Town Hall in its entirety. Trams didn't run past Town Hall. Ferries were cancelled for an hour. Buses didn't turn up for over 25 minutes. And of course, there were no trains to Circular Quay, or the metro at all.
The images I failed to capture were the trams that were stuck at Town Hall and Circular Quay due to some heat-induced electrical failure; tons of firies outside Town Hall and moving into the station; and the complete absence of west-bound buses on Park Street for at least 25 minutes — not a single one in sight. Over 60 people were queued-up and growing frustrated. Exacerbating the situation was the blocking-off of Park St intersecting with Elizabeth Street.
For me, my 80-minute trip ballooned to 210 minutes, featuring two hasty runs/brisk walks from Martin Place to Circular Quay while carrying a fairly cumbersome load.
Posted by alexanderino
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Global city BTW 🤡
Some days I wish we could just rip everything up and start from scratch and not have this jigsaw-puzzle of a transport system where the entire transport system revolves around Central.
For the last couple of months, whenever I’ve needed to take the metro on a weekend it’s been under maintenance. I get they are ramping up testing for the opening of the Bankstown part, but can they not close the metro on significant event weekends e.g. Australia Day weekend, Father’s Day weekend last year, etc.
We need a monorail.
The only 100% reliable transport in Sydney is a bicycle. The only problem is every motorist and pedestrian wants you dead, so you have to be hard core.
What caused all ferry services to he cancelled for an hour? Seemed to be plenty of them moving around any time I passed the harbour.
too hot? rail fail. too cold? rail fail. expensive po’ boy? you bet your ass its gonna be a rail fail
The commuter public transport system.
Bugger everyone else (despite the fact post COVID public transport usage has changed and on weekends etc it has increased).