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Rouse Hill is an elevated rapid transit station being built by the Northwest Rapid Transit (NRT) consortium at the Rouse Hill Town Centre in Sydney, Australia. The project forms part of Transport for New South Wales's $8.3 billion Sydney Metro Northwest scheme. Rouse Hill Station will be one of two new metro stops in the suburb: the other, Cudgegong Road, is being built a few kilometres to the west. From 2019, Rouse Hill Station will provide frequent train services to Chatswood. In later years, as the metro network expands, the Government intends to run trains to Sydney's central business district (CBD), Bankstown, Marsden Park and Hurstville.〔(Sydney Metro City & Southwest Project Overview ) Sydney Metro June 2015〕 == Background == Then-rural Rouse Hill was identified by Sydney's 1988 metropolitan strategy, ''Sydney Into Its Third Century'', as an area for future development. Under the previous 1968 strategy, new Western Sydney suburbs could only be formed within the broad corridors formed by the suburban rail system. In approving ''Sydney Into Its Third Century'', Planning Minister Bob Carr abolished this guideline: henceforth new areas such as Rouse Hill could be developed far from rail lines, provided space was left for future transport infrastructure. A decade later, as the region began to grow, Carr had risen to become premier, and sought solutions to the new suburbs' transport problems. The Government's public transport strategy, ''Action for Transport 2010'', released in 1998, proposed a new railway line from the existing suburban network at Epping to Castle Hill. From Castle Hill, the plan said, passengers would change onto a new bus rapid transit system, to be built using the district's hitherto-vacant transport corridors. Both the Castle Hill rail and busway projects were promised for 2010: only the busway eventuated, and only in part.〔ComfortDelGro Cabcharge, (Hillsbus Service Update: Routes T63, T64, T65 and 610" ), 25 September 2007. Accessed 26 September 2007.〕 The 1998 plan listed the extension of the Castle Hill line to Rouse Hill as a priority for the decade 2010-20.〔 From then on, a Rouse Hill Station appeared in successive north-western rail proposals, including the "Long-Term Plan for Rail" in 2001, the Metropolitan Rail Expansion Plan in 2005, and a short-lived metro proposal in 2008. As of 2011, nothing had been built besides the Rouse Hill to Parramatta section of the busway network. Following a change of government, work on the North West Rail Link commenced in 2013.〔(Construction will soon begin on the North West Rail Link after tunnel contracts were awarded ) Daily Telegraph 25 June 2013〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rouse Hill railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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