NSW Parramatta Light Rail

Parramatta Light Rail.

$1Billion investment. 16 stops from Westmead to Parramatta and Carlingford via Camellia . 12 km track.

Seems like only good things going for Western Sydney!!! Parra/North Parra and areas around the light rail will only go up. Can't see prices falling !!

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I live near one of the stops. Happy days.

 

Me too. I was a bit worried it was going to come right past my house but looks like its a street away. Yay!!

 

I was hoping it would reach further. Looks like its reusing the existing train line. Should get it to connect to Epping.

 

My understanding is the Camellia to Carlingford leg is simply going to re-purpose the existing Carlingford rail line. So those stops would lose a city train service (albeit a very slow one) with a faster light rail to Parramatta.

Positive or negative effect? I was thinking of looking into Rydalmere, Dundas and Telopea but I thinking this could be negible...

Thoughts?

 

Means if you want to go to the city, you would have go to parramatta instead of changing at clyde

If they extended this to epping which was the plan 10+ years ago, then this would be much better

 

From the website, they are looking into extending the route to Epping..


Q. Are there plans to extend light rail to Epping?


A. An Epping extension study is being carried out in line with feedback from the community to explore options for this transport corridor.

 

This is the kicker. It would link to heavy rail and metro to Macquarie Park & the cbd/Barangaroo. It requires about 3km of tunnelling and alot of coordination to get metro, light rail, heavy rail and northern freight lines to marry up.

 

Won't do an harm to an investment I have nearby the Rydalmere stop.

 

Commercial or residential? Boom time.

 

Very expensive and probably not feasible.

 

I hate changing platform at Clyde but got no choice.

 

A duplex in these areas are asking for at least 1.1 million. What's your budget?

 

Not feasible cost-wise but in cross-city time savings (ie public benefit) becomes very viable. Eg Parramatta to Macquarie Park requires a train through the cbd and travelling twice the distance in the wrong direction.

 

Resi. It's a four-pack in North Parramatta near UWS.

 

Catch the M54 bus. Nice and easy and comes every 10 minutes in peak hours, every 15/20 minute off peak and every 30 minutes late at night, last services finish just after midnight.

 

Wonderful! James rise drive?

 

Unless they decide to run it on Carlingford Road to Epping (say where the Epping Coles is located). Ideally, it should extend all the way to Macquarie Park but it is too far fetched.

 

Hmmm... Nice idea but too expensive to bring it all together imo.
I wouldn't hold my breath.

 

Make sense though to at least make it to Epping for connectivity purposes. After all someone needs to buy all those apartments at Epping anyway .....