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Why Australia's biggest city has a problem with 'forced car ownership' (www.abc.net.au)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I had a back-and-forth with someone about the systems in Melbourne vs. Sydney a few months back. From that conversation, I learned that I need to go back to Sydney and see how it's changed (it's been nearly 11 years since my last visit).

At that point, Sydney's network was definitely an inferior experience. The network was good, but it was stupidly expensive. It was also not good at getting around the CBD, not sure whether that has changed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I was last in Sydney about 25 years ago. Apart from their “loop” it was a much more complicated system and I didn’t like it at all and it was confusing.

The only thing I liked about their train system was that it linked in with the airport which was a godsend at the time.

It was expensive and you had to choose a specific station to travel to as well from point to point.

Their colour zones seemed random to me and just unwieldy compared to Melbourne’s centralised 1,2,3 zone with the origin point being the CBD.

I’m not sure what it’s like now but I did not enjoy Sydney’s public transport system back then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

@Nath the things I noticed were the city loop seems to cover the CBD pretty well supported by new surface light rail ( limited network), regularity of services, quality of rolling stock, and opal vs Myki