More Sydney Metro photos: Gadigal (Town Hall) station to Martin Place
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i dont know why we build such extravagant stations... or who convinced who to spend bank... or how treasury didnt hack the project to bits for being $10b over budget.... but absolutely zero complaints from me.
if you are going to coax the car brained out of their precious cars, public transport needs to be at least nice.
It’s good to build nice stations, but hyperstylized stations like this will look weird and dated in 30-40 years.
As for the cost? Don’t be so sure that a station built this way necessarily cost too much more than some dull drum station design. 99% of the cost of underground metro stations is in digging out the thing.
Not just this, other stations on line are really fancy, lots of sandstone, huge open spaces, extravagant artworks.. it's really impressive for a city that's usually pretty tacky.
Ya I think most of the budget issues are tunneling related.
First time in Sydney. Passed through the Museum stop earlier today and the ads caught my eye. Very Fallout-ish.
Ah, yeah, nah, this whole thing is a circle. But not a real circle, more like a freaky circle.
