It takes a host of road closures and late-night public transport services to get half a million people in and out of town. Here’s how to drive,or catch a bus,train or light rail to the inner city on Saturday.
Sydney WorldPride launched on Friday night.Louie Douvis
Road closures
Road closures in the CBD will begin at 2pm,with sections of College Street,Wentworth Avenue and surrounding streets.
At 3pm,sections of Bourke Street,Campbell Street and surrounding local streets will also close,as more people gather ahead of the parade,with Liverpool Street between Elizabeth Street and College Street,Oxford Street between College Street and Darlinghurst Road,and sections of Crown and South Dowling streets all shut from 4.30pm.
Motorists travelling between the city and the eastern suburbs will be diverted via William Street and Darlinghurst Road in the north and Cleveland Street in the south.
Additional clearways will be in place on streets near the parade route.
Trains
Transport for NSW recommends people wanting to access the northern side of the parade (Darlinghurst) use Town Hall,St James,Martin Place or Kings Cross stations. Spectators watching from the Surry Hills side of Oxford Street should walk up from Central Station.
Museum station will be closed from 5pm.
Note that weekend trackwork will see buses replace trains between Richmond and Blacktown,Bankstown and Sydenham,Cronulla and Sutherland. From 10am to 4pm,buses will also replace trains between Campbelltown and Moss Vale.
The metro will run late,with the final service north leaving Chatswood at 2.37am.
Buses
Buses between the city and the inner west and eastern suburbs will be diverting around the parade route or terminating early – at Central rather than Circular Quay – between 4pm and 2am. Check for the exact diversions.
The affected routes are:
All stops on Oxford Street between Hyde Park and Flinders Street will be shut during this time.
Light rail
The closest light rail stops to the parade route are Town Hall (to walk via Park Street and William Street to the northern side of Oxford Street),Surry Hills (to walk via Devonshire Street to the southern side of Oxford Street) and Moore Park (to walk to the Anzac Parade viewing areas).
Services will be running uninterrupted,with extra services on the L2 Randwick and L3 Kingsford lines.
Getting home
Additional late night bus and train services will run after the parade is over. Trains will be running about every eight minutes on the T1 North Shore Line (until 2am) and City Circle Line,and every 10 to 15 minutes on all other lines (until 1am).
A shuttle service between Bondi Junction and Central will run every 15 minutes until 3am.
Taxi ranks within the road closure area will be closed during that time. A temporary taxi rank will be on Wentworth Avenue from 1am to 5am. Taxi ranks at Pitt Street,Bathurst Street and Goulburn Street will remain in operation.
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