Lift Redfern Station Campaign - Make Redfern Station Accessible

10/11/2023

https://southsydneyherald.com.au/community-access-gives-lift-to-redfern-station/

A new southern concourse at Redfern station was opened by Premier Minns on October 8 at a reported cost of $166 million. The concourse replaces the southern bridge to the station removed in the 1990s. Alexandria, Waterloo and Eveleigh will get improved access to the station through entrances in Mari...

08/10/2023

Local access across Redfern's new Southern Concourse was delivered today when the Premier opened the new Concourse which will provide lift access to 10 of the stations 12 platforms. You can see the shared access in the photo below taken from the Little Eveleigh Street side. Redfern is the only station in NSW to have shared public and ticketed concourse. Access will be closed when the station is closed between approx 1.30 am to 4.30am.

As locals were exploring the new concourse, workers were removing the steps at the South Eveleigh end of platform 10.

Until a new building is developed above the Eastern Suburbs line, commuters from the Southern Concourse will have a long walk to platforms 11 and 12 and at grade disability access to buses will not exist. New pedestrian lights on Gibbons Street and Regent Street will however allow people to move from the southern exit to and from Regent Street buses although paths do not follow desire lines to either the crossing or to the buses.

REDWatch, as part of the wider LIft Redfern Campaign presented a petition with over 10,000 signatures for lifts at Redfern Station in May 2012. This resulted in a single lift installed to platforms 6&7 in November 2015. With only 10 platforms still accessible by lifts, it will likely be many more years before Redfern Station is fully accessible. Change takes a long time!

Locals, including the South Sydney Herald, were not invited to the opening. Transport for NSW is planning a get together in a couple of weeks time for the community. The SMH got the pre-opening media drop and you can see its story at - https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/new-look-for-one-of-sydney-s-oldest-train-stations-20231005-p5e9xc.html

01/08/2023

So is this what barrier free access looks like?

Before the election, In the March newsletter from Transport for NSW on North Eveleigh's Rezoning, TfNSW said there would be "barrier-free access across the new southern concourse at Redfern Station". This was reiterated in a recent SMH article about the station. The community felt they had won the battle for barrier free community access across the new concourse. Questions still remained as to if it would be tap-on and tap-off and if the concourse would be closed when the trains were bot running.

Yet, as this photo, taken on 26 July, clearly shows barriers are being installed on Redfern's Southern Concourse. Neither the July or August Transport for NSW newsletters for the Southern Concourse make any reference to barriers being installed in the work being undertaken.

What is going on? Has TfNSW lied? Has the new Government made a change? Have they reneged? Has someone forgot to tell the contractors there will be no barriers?

TfNSW contacts for the Southern Concourse is [email protected] or call 1800 684 490. You can message the Minister via https://www.nsw.gov.au/nsw-government/ministers/minister-for-transport

26/02/2023

So exciting to see lifts finally going in at Redfern Station!

In a huge win for community members who've campaigned for lift accessibility for years, there will soon be lift access to platforms 1-10 via the new Southern Concourse 🙌🏽 Unfortunately the current plans for the concourse require Opal tap on/off at either end - watch this space for updates on our push to ensure barrier free access across Redfern Station.