The current bus route takes twice as long as the train does

More than 100 people are waiting on Canterbury station’s platform 2 at 7.46am on Wednesday, and when the T3 train line turns up, everyone knows what the next 33 minutes will be like on the journey to Town Hall: tight.

The train has already picked up hundreds from Birrong onwards, including at Bankstown, Lakemba and Belmore. When the next service arrives 16 minutes later, it’s a push to get on at all.

“It’s somewhat inconvenient,” one man says of the long waiting time as the indicator…