Transport for NSW this week announced 213 new weekly trips on L1 Dulwich Hill line inner west trams and 96 new weekly trips on Sydney Harbour and Parramatta ferries.
As the operator of Sydney’s trams for more than 20 years and ferries for 14 years, Transdev is pleased to be able to help more Sydneysiders move around their city.
Transdev Australia and New Zealand CEO Brian Brennan said he congratulated TfNSW for the service investment which gave commuters more choice.
“We know more and more people are getting back on public transport and extra services mean greater frequency and an easier decision to leave the car at home,” Mr Brennan said.
“These extra services allow commuters to simply turn up and go on our L1 trams and offer greater capacity on the ferries with people seeing more Freshwater vessels and also Parramatta services.
“L1 trams are now running every six minutes in the morning/evening peaks – which is a more compelling offering to customers to use public transport.
“Early morning services between 6am and 7am on weekdays and Friday nights between 7pm and 9pm, will also increase from a 15-minute frequency to a 10-minute frequency.
“All up the L1 service uplift increases capacity on the L1 line by 33 percent and with the new Urbos 100 light rail vehicles that arrived in the country last year, the fleet has grown from 12 to 16.”
On the ferries, there are an extra 60 services across the F1 and F3 routes during the week and another 36 on weekends, with the larger Freshwater Class vessels permanently uplifted from every two hours to hourly, increasing from five services a day to 10, on weekdays and weekends.
An extra seven services will operate on the F3 Parramatta River route each weekday and an extra 26 on the weekend.
For more information or to plan your trip, visit transportnsw.info.
