Light rail death: Man dies after being hit in Surry Hills

[Tony Galloway]

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/pedestrian-dead-after-being-hit-by-light-rail-in-sydney-20250605-p5m58u.html

Pedestrian dead after being hit by light rail in Sydney

Cindy YinJune 5, 2025 — 2.18pm

A man has died after being hit by a light rail carriage in inner Sydney.

Emergency services were called to Devonshire Street in Surry Hills about 1.15pm on Thursday following reports the pedestrian in his 40s had been struck.

Paramedics attempted to treat the man however he died at the scene. He is yet to be formally identified.

Light rail services are not running between Moore Park and Circular Quay, and passengers have been urged to take alternate forms of transport or delay their travel.

L2 and L3 light rail services are running between Moore Park and Randwick, and between Moore Park and Juniors Kingsford.

Transport for NSW have requested replacement buses between Central and Moore Park, but bus services are not yet running.

A crime scene has been established and NSW Police have launched an investigation into the cause of the incident.

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[Greg Sutherland]

Man dies after being struck by light rail carriage in Sydney's Surry Hills

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-05/nsw-light-rail-sydney-surry-hills-man-dies/105381140

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The man was fatally injured at Surry Hills light rail stop. (Supplied: Kathryn Magann)

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A man has died after being struck by a light rail carriage at a stop in Sydney's inner-city.

Emergency services remain on scene after the man, believed to be in his 40s, was hit about 1.15pm at the Surry Hills light rail stop on Devonshire Street.

"On arrival, officers attached to Surry Hills Police Area Command found a man, believed to be aged in his 40s under the carriage," NSW Police said in a statement.

"The man was treated at the scene by NSW Ambulance paramedics, however he died at the scene."

Emergency services remain at the scene. (ABC News: Danuta Kozaki)

The man is yet to be identified.

Light rail services are expected to be disrupted throughout the afternoon.

Transport for NSW said L2 and L3 services were not running between Moore Park and Central, and advised passengers to delay travel or take alternative transport.

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[Tony Galloway]

Climbing over the coupler apparently.

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[Matthew Geier]

The couplers are a constant source of angst.

It appears Alstom/Transdev have rejected the idea of putting some sort
of barrier on the side of the cars (Like some places in the US do, and
Poland!) and instead are altering the software on the 'DDU' to show the
rear cab camera of the leading car in the middle of the drivers screen.
This change is currently being trialled with a few sets having the
software change to enable it.

The idea being that it will be on the driver to not only check the doors
are clear and there is no one in front of them as they depart, they need
to look at the DDU screen to see if any one is between the cars too.

The barriers SF have put on the new Siemens cars look ugly, but will be
more effective at deterring people from doing stupid things than the
Sydney approach of putting it on the driver to look for these idiots on
a screen as they depart.

[espee8800]

Coupler problem could be solved by running double the frequency with a single set rather than the coupled stuff now, of course they won't like that; twice as many drivers.. 

Or else invent a much shorter coupling arrangement.

On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 at 17:13, 'Matthew Geier' via TramsDownUnder <tramsdo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

The couplers are a constant source of angst.

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[Matthew Geier]

One of the reasons Sydney is running double sets is a limitation transport put on the number 'road crossing per hour' on the route - and the only way to get the desired capacity with the limit on crossings was to run longer trams.

Even if the government / transdev wanted to employ more drivers, they would have an almighty fight with the traffic planners over all the CBD road crossings. Even now the trams don't have full priority and a significant amount of time is spent on each journey waiting for traffic lights to change.

The traffic planners in Sydney have way too much power - multiple bus priority schemes have been tired and killed off over the years. They will do anything to keep the 'vehicles per hour' figure for each intersection as high as possible (Vehicles per hour not people per hour, so a bus or tram has the same weight to the planners as a single occupant car.)

I can only assume any one who joins the planning dept who has more progressive ideas on traffic management doesn't last long.

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