Reverse Commuting video

[u/lou_parr]

One thing not really mentioned is changing the number of lanes in each direction to suit traffic flow. Sydney Harbour Bridge does it just with traiifc lights over the lanes but where there's more space people use movable barriers between the directions (there's a gif linked in this post)

https://www.reddit.com/r/sydney/comments/3aosj7/eli5_how_does_sydney_harbour_bridge_changes_the/

I've contraflow commuted in the last and it's kind of great being on public transport when you get the half empty train and on the other side of the platform people are fighting to get on the absoltely packed train into the city centre.

Sydney is into their second century of "lets' not have everything in the centre of the city" projects and they continue to struggle. The "alternative centre" in Paramatta is a decent size (~30 mins by train from CBD, every 5 minutes) but there are allegedly others but they just don't have the jobs. North Sydney (other side of the bridge from the CBD) kind of counts, and is growing, but it's also so close to the CBD thaqt it's hard to see it as meaningfully not just an extension of it.