Sydney CBD light rail services suspended due to urgent repairs
Commuters have been left stranded on their way to work this morning as urgent signal repairs stopped trams from running from Central Station to the Convention Centre at the height of the morning peak.
A spokeswoman for the Transport Management Centre said signals went down at the intersection of George and Hay streets at 8.25am, causing all tram services to be suspended between Central and Convention while urgent repairs are carried out.
Hundreds of commuters waiting to catch the tram to and from Central Station were left stranded, some walking the rest of the journey to work.
One woman said she paid for a taxi to get her to a Pyrmont office on time after she realised the tram was not coming, about 8.30am.
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"We were just standing there, maybe around 100 people there waiting for the tram. It said it was coming in four minutes, but then they told us there was no tram coming."
She said commuters heading towards Dulwich Hill were told to walk the 1.5 kilometres to Convention and get on another tram there.
Urgent track equipment repairs at Town Hall station have also delayed trains on the T4 Eastern Suburbs line, while a medical emergency at Strathfield earlier this morning is causing delays on the North Shore Line.
Meanwhile, buses travelling between Central and the eastern suburbs are delayed amid heavy traffic after a bus broke down on the Moore Park Road off-ramp of the Eastern Distributor.