Behind the Edwardian-era sandstone pile of the terminus constructing, ugly rail yards lengthen to Redfern, making a wasteland that splits the south of the CBD in two.

There may be now hope for change within the type of an formidable proposal by the NSW authorities which guarantees, at the least partially, to heal this open wound within the metropolis’s physique.

Transport for NSW final August launched a plan for the 24-hectare web site which can cowl regional and intercity practice traces operating south from the terminus constructing and place on prime of them a brand new precinct in what’s now the no-man’s land between Surry Hills and Chippendale. Suburban traces will stay uncovered however spanned by three bridges.

The Herald helps the redevelopment of the world however constructing large workplace and house buildings over functioning rail traces is technically daunting and fraught with dangers.

Central Station is likely one of the key nodes within the state’s transport community and any main disruption may very well be far worse than different latest mega-projects equivalent to WestConnex and the brand new metro traces.

Certainly, the large estimated price of $11 billion may simply threaten the plan earlier than it has begun. In an effort to recoup the large funding, Transport for NSW’s design entails constructing skyscrapers as excessive as 34-storeys in a good grid of slim streets.

Quite than rework town, some are warning that the design may simply produce a windy, concrete dystopia the place nobody needs to go.

The Metropolis of Sydney in its response to the plan this week warned that the present design simply “replicates the apparent errors of Barangaroo South”.