Sydenham to Bankstown Alliance - SBA

05/04/2026

Scurrying about the banks of Sydney's Cooks River, an army of volunteers known as the 'mudcrabs' is working to bring one of the nation's most toxic waterways back to life.

19/03/2026

Sydney Metro's "integrated" Bankstown interchange with the divided West Bankstown Train Station and the East Bankstown Metro Station is breach of its own design standards.

Sydney Metro requires that all public areas and facilities are comfortable including being "protected with weather protection form rain, sun, and wind while boarding/alighting, waiting for service, accessing ticketing, information or services and INTERCHANGING".

City of Canterbury Bankstown Canterbury-Bankstown Express

18/03/2026

Metro Southwest cost estimated at $816 million in 2012, now over $11 billion but doesn't include roof coverage between station entrances at Bankstown.

🚨 Bankstown Station Design FAIL 🚨

👣 Long Walk – Train and Metro entrances are disconnected

☀️🌧️ No shelter between Train and Metro entrances in rain, wind, sun

🚉 No platform cover – New train platform extension is fully exposed

💳 Tap off ➡️ walk ➡️ tap on – Must exit one system and pay again

😕 No fare integration – Easy to get overcharged or confused

♿ Hard for elderly & parents – Not friendly for prams or wheelchairs

🚫 Not a real interchange – Two stations, no covered connection

18/03/2026

Welcome to East Bankstown Metro Station and West Bankstown Train Station. Once Metro Southwest opens, commuters will need to tap on and tap off to interchange between Metro and Train.

The Sydenham to Bankstown Alliance (SBA) is disappointed that Sydney Metro, Transport for NSW, and City of Canterbury Bankstown refuses to provide adequate shelter for commuters interchanging between Metro and Train. We call on Transport Minister John Graham, Jihad Dib MP, and Mayor Bilal El-Hayek - City of Canterbury Bankstown to fund construction of a continuous awning linking entrances of the East Bankstown Metro Station and the West Bankstown Train Station.

The provision of Sydney Trains in the West of Bankstown remains an issue with the NSW Future Transport Strategy indicating the removal of the T6 Lidcombe & Bankstown Line. The Sydenham to Bankstown Alliance (SBA) calls on the NSW Government to restore direct trains from Bankstown to Liverpool via Sefton and also from Bankstown to City via Strathfield.

05/02/2026

During the Floss St Bridge closure in October ‘25 Sydney Metro permanently removed a local artwork and replaced it with 2 advertising screens without any forewarning. If you like to see the artwork reinstalled, please sign the petition below!

There’s a precedent set by the Friends of Erskineville that these screens can be in fact removed. Council are aware of this issue and share the sentiment but it is not within their remit as the bridge is owned by Sydney Metro. Jo Haylen, the MP for Summer Hill has written to John Graham, the Minister for Transport to raise this issue in which hopefully a desirable outcome will be achieved.

Reinstate Floss St Bridge artwork that was removed by Sydney Metro

15/01/2026

"The metro could have been built far cheaper with more sensible planning" - former Sydney Rail executives John Brew, Ron Christie, Bob O’Loughlin and Dick Day
https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/system/files/media/documents/2018/tra-000402.pdf

15/01/2026

Sophie Cotsis says Sydenham to Bankstown Metro will really change the inner south west and southwest. Let's not forget Sophie Cotsis said in 2019 through her submission to the NSW Parliament Inquiry that "I am concerned that, even if the Sydenham to Bankstown Line conversion delivers the benefits the Government has promised, the overall quality of life for local residents will suffer".https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lcdocs/submissions/66354/0104%20Ms%20Sophie%20Cotsis%20MP.pdf

06/12/2025

Media release, 5 December 2025: Revelations that the cost of building Sydney’s […] Read More »

02/12/2025

27/11/2025

Today in Parliament, NSW Labor formally opposed my motion asking the Government “to confirm whether the Sydney Metro service from Bankstown will be a direct service through the City and to Tallawong when it opens in 2026.”

My concern has always been that Bankstown and surrounding communities may end up with a downgraded shuttle service instead of the ‘world-class’ Metro we were promised.

Just last week during debate in Question Time, the Minister refused to address growing rumours, reportedly from within his own Department, that the Bankstown Metro may terminate at Sydenham, forcing Bankstown commuters to change trains yet again.

The community deserves a straight answer. If the Labor Government has received advice that the Metro may only run between Bankstown and Sydenham, they should come clean and tell us now.

And where are the local MPs Jihad Dib and Sophie Cotsis? Nowhere to be seen and silent as usual.

Sydenham to Bankstown Alliance - SBA Restore Inner West Line - Liverpool via Regents Park

22/11/2025

Major delays at Lidcombe and Strathfield (due to trackwork) could have been avoided were Sydenham to Bankstown retained as the relief line from Western Sydney to Sydney CBD.