The following reduced timetable will run:
L1 Dulwich Hill Line
- Thursday: No trams 11pm – 1am, customers should consider alternate travel including bus, train, and metro services.
- Friday/Saturday
- 7am-7pm: trams between Central Grand Concourse and Lilyfield every 10mins (Fri), 15mins (Sat)
- buses between Lilyfield and Dulwich Hill.
- 5am-7am & 7pm-1am: buses between Central Grand Concourse and Dulwich Hill.
L2 Randwick Line
- Thursday: No trams 11pm – 1am, customers should consider alternate travel including bus, train, and metro services.
- Friday/Saturday:
- 7am-7pm: trams between Central Chalmers Street and Randwick every 10mins both Friday and Saturday.
- 5am-7am & 7pm-1am:
- buses between Central Chalmers Street and Randwick.
- no services between Central Chalmers Street and Circular Quay
L3 Kingsford Line
- Thursday: No trams 11pm – 1am, customers should consider alternate travel including bus, train, and metro services.
- Friday/Saturday:
- 7am-7pm: trams between Central Chalmers Street and Juniors Kingsford every 10mins Friday and Saturday.
- 5am-7am & 7pm-1am:
- buses between Central Chalmers Street and Juniors Kingsford.
- No services between Central Chalmers Street and Circular Quay, customers should consider alternate travel including regular bus, train, and metro services.
Customers should plan ahead, consider catching regular buses, and for those who can, consider working from home on Friday, 15 November 2024.
Staff will be stationed across the tram network to help customers. We expect normal tram services to resume from Sunday morning, 17 November 2024.
Transdev Sydney Managing Director Arsene Durand-Raucher apologised for the inconvenience of this industrial action.
“The Rail Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) wants tram drivers to reduce tram speeds to less than 10 kilometres an hour unless the State Government cut fares to 50¢ a trip and also ran trams 24/7,” Mr Durand-Raucher said.
“Driving trams at less than 10kmh poses real safety risks around driver fatigue and breaks, signaling, and road and pedestrian traffic disruptions particularly passing so slowly through intersections.
“This action has made demands about fares and hours of operations which we don’t control.
“Our pay offer was recently voted down by the RTBU which included an 18% wage increase over four years, 11 days of paid sick leave and 50 weeks of backpay.
“Transdev has been attempting to meet with the RTBU all week, including this weekend, but unfortunately the union has been unable to sit down with us.
“We apologise for this disruption and thank passengers for their understanding.”