‘I’ve had enough of pink buses’: the long wait for Sydney’s newest metro line is nearly over

A woman boards a pink bus at Bankstown metro station. The opening of the southwest metro extension will bring parts of Sydney closer to the city’s centre than ever before. Photograph: Jessica Hromas/The Guardian

Alia Karaman, the project director for Sydney’s long-awaited south-west metro extension, cannot say when the new train line will open but she can say when it won’t.

“It’s not going to be this weekend,” Karaman told the Guardian last Monday. “I can safely rule out that.”