SYDNEY’S TRAFFIC.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1926, Page 3

SYDNEY’S TRAFFIC.

CHANGES TN THE CITY. , SYDNEY, July 8. A few days ago a gang of hefty labourers with picks and shovels started to make a sad mess of one of the footpaths bordering St. Andrew’s Cathedral. They were the unobtrusive advance guard of the army of men who before long will be burrowing under George street in front of Inc Town Hall and the Cathedral, for the construction of what will he one of the busiest of the city underground railway stations. This station is designed to take 72,000 people in and out every hour of the day. Each hour 232 trains will pass through it. The first section of this railway will bo com. pleted in a few months’ time. Sydney will witness some remarkable changes in the next few years. Right in front of the Town Hall, for example, are two little grass plots, which are behind high railings, and are soon by eompar.vtively few people. On those precise spots ibis big station will, in a few years, take down into its maw countless thousands of people bustling for trains that will whirr them through the city underground. There will be other entrances and exits as well. How tho engineers will he able to undertake the vast excavations in this busy part of the city without disorganising traffic is something of a puzzle. The aim is to complete simultaneously the underground railway and the Sydn.y Harbour bridge. Two big parks, VVynyard square and Hyde Park. h:\ie been sadlv defaced by the necessities of the railway, so the worshippers at St Andrew’s Cathedral cannot complain if before l«niß the Cathedral grounds are sorely disfigured.