{"id":229920,"date":"2025-06-05T16:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T06:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=229920"},"modified":"2025-06-17T19:21:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T09:21:34","slug":"look-at-the-first-metro-journey-between-sydenham-and-bankstown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=229920","title":{"rendered":"Look at the first metro journey between Sydenham and Bankstown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here\u2019s your first look at the first metro journey between Sydenham and Bankstown<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The inaugural trip started in the early hours of the morning and was completed later that day, after more than five hours of careful navigation, stops and tests across the newly converted line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When fast and frequent metro services start in Sydney\u2019s southwest in 2026, the same journey will take just 21 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"270\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 480 \/ 270;\" width=\"480\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/08PIEpuUAB-2d5h6.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sydenham to Bankstown Metro Service<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out your future Southwest Metro travel times to the Sydney CBD and north west of the city using the travel calculator: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6BIjTifIjp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/sydneymetro.info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out your future Southwest Metro travel times to the Sydney CBD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":229921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,47,1033],"tags":[5026,2139],"class_list":["post-229920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-rail-news","category-sydney-metro","tag-nsw","tag-sydney"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229923,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229920\/revisions\/229923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/229921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}