Businesses near the metro are also doing well as foot traffic takes off.

On the new metro with a ministerial inspection, not just the staff, the trains, the stations, but what's happening around them.

Not just for people and the way they move about, but the businesses that are also benefiting.

Success measured in taps and caps.

At Victoria Cross, it's been instant.

Before the metro we were doing maybe 150, 200 couples a day and then as soon as the metro opened we're at 500.

That's incredible.

In the CBD.

Already we're finding an increase in business.

It's now bringing more pedestrians up the hills, up to Martin Place.

As travellers are switching.

Compared with last week, Tuesday saw 10,000 fewer passengers tapping off at Town Hall as 14,000 went through the new Gadigal metro station.

In North Sydney, the train station fell from 27,000 to 17,000 Tuesday tap-offs as nearby Victoria Cross metro had 14,000 go through.

The move to metro taking pressure off trains, improving their reliability.

Because metro is so fast and frequent, people could move from the CBD to perhaps have lunch in Victoria Cross.

James making a metro day of it.

I went to Chatswood for lunch and now I'm back for a cleansing now, right in Sydney.

Next trip's Barangaroo.

Further west, twin breakthroughs at Olympic Park for the twin tunnels of Metro West.

The machines will next dig towards Westmead.

Here, 27 metres below the ground is the station that will be dealing with the biggest surge in passengers on the new Metro West line.

Sydney Olympic Park, designed to handle some 40,000 passengers an hour.

Set to open in 2032.

And Paul Caddack is in Parramatta tonight where there's more trouble for the new light rail.

Angela, that's right.

News that probably won't go down too well here on Church Street.

That the Parramatta light rail has run into problems during testing, which means its launch will have to be pushed back again to late this year.

There's apparently been issues with power supply and Opal card payments.

We don't want passengers to be used as guinea pigs.

We want to make sure this service is running exactly how it should.

That'll make the nearly $3 billion project around a year late, Angela.

OK, thanks so much, Paul.