T-way
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Owner | Transport for NSW |
| Locale | Sydney, Australia |
| Transit type | Bus / Bus rapid transit |
| Number of lines | 11 |
| Operation | |
| Began operation | 2013 |
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Rapid bus routes form a network of high-capacity cross-regional bus routes in Sydney, Australia. Eleven rapid routes were identified within the existing bus network as part of the New South Wales Government's Sydney's Bus Future plan in 2013. Two further routes, described as "growth centre rapid routes" were promised to commence as new-release residential areas and town centres developed. In the longer term, these two routes (Rouse Hill–Marsden Park–Blacktown and Liverpool–Leppington–Campbelltown) may be upgraded to bus rapid transit.
Sydney's Bus Future describes the rapid routes as "the backbone of the new bus network, offering fast, reliable bus travel for customers between major centres ... which are not linked by trains or light rail." Rapid routes feature:
Rapid routes will run every five minutes during the day on weekdays and every eight minutes during the day on weekends.
The 1968 Sydney Region Outline Plan, which guided the city's growth for close to 20 years, encouraged the decentralisation of employment in Sydney. As more people and jobs moved to the outer suburbs, the existing public transport network, based on buses feeding passengers into a City-centred rail system, did not keep pace.
In 1998, the Carr Labor government released a transport policy document called Action for Transport 2010, which envisaged 90 kilometres of new bus rapid transit routes, dubbed 'T-ways'. The document promised that by 2010, the T-way network would reach from Parramatta, the centre of Western Sydney, to Blacktown, Castle Hill, Liverpool, Mungerie Park (an area now called Rouse Hill), Penrith, Strathfield and Wetherill Park. The first stage, to Liverpool, opened in 2003, followed by lines to Rouse Hill and Blacktown in 2007.
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