The action begins from 11:59pm on Thursday 14 November until 5am Sunday 17 November 2024.
Saturday’s schedule is still to be decided depending on staff availability.
The following reduced timetable will run on Friday:
L1 Dulwich Hill Line
• Trams every 10mins between Central and Lilyfield 7am – 7pm
• Buses between Lilyfield and Dulwich Hill 7am – 7pm
• Buses between Central and Dulwich Hill before 7am and after 7pm
L2 Randwick Line
• Trams every 10mins between Central and Randwick 7am – 7pm
• Buses to Randwick before 7am and after 7pm
• No L2 trams in the CBD, passengers should use Metro, Sydney Trains buses and active transport.
L3 Kingsford Line
• No Light Rail services will operate, passengers should use Metro, Sydney Trains and buses, active transport.
• Buses between Central and Kingsford between 5am and 1am
Check transportnsw.info for the latest information, including Saturday’s schedule. Customers should plan ahead, consider catching regular buses, and for those who can, consider working from home on
Friday, 15 November
Staff will be stationed across the tram network to help customers. We expect normal tram services to resume from Sunday morning, 17 November 2024.
Transdev Sydney Managing Director Arsene Durand-Raucher apologised for the inconvenience of this industrial action.
“The Rail Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) wants tram drivers to reduce tram speeds to less than 10 kilometres an hour unless the State Government cut fares to 50¢ a trip and also ran trams 24/7,” Mr Durand-Raucher said.
“Driving trams at less than 10kmh poses real safety risks around driver fatigue and breaks, signaling, and road and pedestrian traffic disruptions particularly passing so slowly through intersections.
“This action has made demands about fares and hours of operations which we don’t control.
“Our pay offer was recently voted down by the RTBU which included an 18% wage increase over four years, 11 days of paid sick leave and 50 weeks of backpay.
“Transdev has been attempting to meet with the RTBU all week, including this weekend, but unfortunately the union has been unable to sit down with us.
“We apologise for this disruption and thank passengers for their understanding.”
