Macquarie staff and students will enjoy:

• A higher frequency of trains, up to one train every four minutes during peak hours.
• No timetables, just turn up and go.
• 13 new stations from Tallawong to Chatswood, giving more staff and students the opportunity to take a train to campus.
• Faster offloading and onboarding of passengers.
• A safer experience for passengers with on-platform safety screens keeping people and objects like prams away from the tracks.
• A new North West Night Bus service for staff who need to travel late at night.

Read the NSW Government media release.

For all the information you need about planning your trip, including fares, routes and accessibility information, visit the Sydney Metro website.

While the new line will obviously offer many benefits – with trains promised to run every four minutes between Rouse Hill and the city during peak hours – the potential disruption caused by the station closure is understandably causing some concern among staff who commute to the University by train.

The good news? The station closure won’t be occurring until late 2018 and the University is already working closely with key stakeholders, including Transport for NSW and Ryde Council, to ensure staff and students are provided with adequate transport alternatives.

“Our goal is to maintain smooth and uninterrupted access to the campus during the period of the station closure,” says Mark Broomfield, Director of Property. “We are currently carefully reviewing the temporary transport plan being proposed by Transport for NSW and will continue to update staff on any developments.”

We will provide further updates as they become available, and will seek input from the staff and students who may be impacted by this in due course.