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At North Ryde a new, blue, pedestrian bridge has been built to connect a planned 5,000 new residents at Lachlan’s Line directly to Metro services. More than 2,700 homes will be built at the nine hectare site.

Re-zoning on Herring Road has created new neighbourhoods clustered around

Macquarie University Metro station. The “Midtown Mac Park” masterplan aims to be ‘100% walkable’, with homes, a school, parkland and a swimming pool within a 500m walk from Macquarie University Metro station.

86% of Macquarie Park residents now live in apartments, 70% were born overseas, and 60% are tertiary qualified (2.5 x the State average). About a fifth work in our local area.

New demographics

Since the pandemic, commuters have returned to Sydney Metro Northwest faster than Sydney’s other suburban rail lines. The change in average daily patronage as a percent of pre-pandemic levels is higher at Macquarie University Metro station than at Parramatta, or Town Hall station in Sydney.

There were also more weekend trips on the Northwest line, including to destinations like Macquarie Centre.

Investment in public transport has seen Macquarie University become a campus not just for Sydney’s north, but for Sydney’s north and west.

Around 20,000 people travel to Macquarie University campus every day. 14,000 of them now come from the north and west, places which are connected by investment in public transport:

• The Hills Shire Hornsby

• Ku-ring-gai

• Blacktown

• Paramatta

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