News Summary:
The Minns government accelerated its $35 million Reliability Maintenance Program on March 28, advancing critical maintenance zones six months ahead of schedule. The program’s targets now extend across tracks, signalling, security improvements, drainage, and electrical systems, focusing on areas like the City Circle, which recorded an average of 2.67 million Opal tap-ons and tap-offs weekly last year. Previously, on March 24, Bankstown Station's new transit interchange and community precinct opened to the public, marking its largest upgrade since the station's 1909 opening. This precinct integrates a 90-meter tree-lined plaza, completed earlier on March 22, to provide seamless and accessible interchanges, connecting to buses, trains, and future metro services, with three modern metro services expected later in the year. Separately, on March 24, a passenger train sped at four times the limit through a section of track in Sydney’s west, throwing the driver from his seat in a near-miss incident at a spot previously identified as high risk. This occurred following a transport safety investigation report, published on March 23, which detailed that expectation bias and a lack of effective risk controls contributed to a passenger train travelling through a turnout near Blacktown Station at four times faster than the posted speed limit.
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