Action for Public Transport (N.S.W.) Inc.

Thirteen trains will be required to service the initial Central to Rozelle route. They will be made up as five-car single-deck sets, with 3 doors per car. They will use 1500 V DC traction, with overhead supply. The trains will be about 110m long. They are described as having "driverless capability".

The 7 km route will have six stations, at Central, "Town Hall Square" (below Pitt Street), Martin Place, Barangaroo-Wynyard, Pyrmont and Rozelle, with provision for a future station at White Bay. Central Station will be located in a shallow box below Railway Square Park, aligned for future western extension under Broadway. Priority access to stations will be granted to pedestrians and cyclists. The provision of bicycle storage at stations implies a prohibition for bikes on the trains. Rozelle terminus will serve as a major bus-rail interchange at the intersection of Victoria Road and Darling Street, but little detail is provided in the PEA.

The tracks will lie in twin 5.7 m diameter tunnels. The tunnels will pass above the Cross City (road) Tunnel at Town Hall and also above the Eastern Suburbs Line in Haymarket.

A maintenance depot and control centre will be built on the site of the former Rozelle Marshalling Yard, adjacent to the City West Link Road. The maintenance centre will have a capacity for 23 trains.

The PEA acknowledges the necessity for the project to interface with the RTA's proposed Victoria Road "Upgrade", The Barangaroo Authority's East Darling Harbour development, and the City East Cable Tunnel.

There is no reference to a second, North East - South East Metro line, previously mooted as intersecting with the then North West Metro at Martin Place. This implied abandonment of Sydney's second metro line is, in APT's opinion, a serious deficiency. Any government which was genuinely interested in an efficient transport system for Sydney's CBD would make provision for easy cross-platform interchange with a future North East - South East Metro. It appears this is not to be.