Hunter Street Station to unlock Sydney CBD’s longest east-west undercover pedestrian network

A pedestrian connection will join Hunter Street Station to Wynyard Station at the station’s western end, while at its eastern, end a multi-level walkway will allow passengers to travel from the Hunter Street platforms on Metro West directly to platform level at Martin Place Metro Station on the M1 Line. 

The connectivity Hunter Street station will create will form the missing link in an extensive east-west undercover pedestrian network, extending about one kilometre below the heart of Sydney’s CBD. 

Pedestrians will have a fast, safe, weather-protected route joining Barangaroo, through Wynyard Walk to four transport hubs – at Wynyard, Hunter Street, and both metro and Sydney Trains services at Martin Place. 

Hunter Street Station’s pedestrian links are key to extending the network and will be constructed using new and repurposed infrastructure. 

The Hunter Street Station connections will include: 

• A pedestrian link to Brookfield Place, Wynyard Station and, via Wynyard Walk, Barangaroo. This connection will utilise the existing Hunter Connection Tunnel, built in the 1930s as part of the original Wynyard Station works, which sits approximately 20-metres below George Street. 

   

• A pedestrian link connecting Metro West’s Hunter Street platforms directly to the platforms at Martin Place Metro Station on the M1 Line. The Martin Place link will provide fast and easy interchange with services to northwest and southwest Sydney on the M1 line and Sydney Trains services on the T4 Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line.  The walkway is under construction and is being built by repurposing a tunnel used to support Metro construction. The link will include escalators and a lift.  

Hunter Street’s pedestrian links will ease pedestrian flow at and around the above-ground station entrances located on Hunter, George, O’Connell and Bligh Streets.  

By 2036, more than 10,000 people are expected to move through the station every hour in the morning peak, with that number expected to increase to 35,000 by 2056.  

Set to have the busiest platforms on the Metro West line, Hunter Street Station will serve as a major gateway to the west, connecting passengers to Greater Parramatta in around 20 minutes. 

The station and precinct development will create a dynamic new destination in the city centre, with new retail and commercial buildings set to rise 51storeys above the western entrance and 58 storeys above the eastern entrance. 

Sydney Metro West will transform travel in Sydney by doubling rail capacity between Greater Parramatta and the Sydney CBD, supporting additional jobs, stimulating economic growth and boosting housing supply in Sydney’s west.   

Sydney Metro West is targeting an opening date of 2032.  

For more information visit: https://www.sydneymetro.info/station/hunter-street-station