Sydney's Transportation
Sydney, Australia is located on the east coast in New South Wales. It is Australia's most populous city, with about 5.23 million people living in the city. With so many people living and working in the city, there needs to be very good infrastructure. Subways are one of the most common forms of public transportation, but only a few extend beyond the city. There is a big project under way to extend the main metro line from Chatswood to Bankstown called the Sydney West Project. This metro line is mostly underground, and this expansion will help even more people get to where they need to go.
History of Sydney
In January 1788, Great Britain founded a colony on Sydney Cove. Between 1788 and 1792, the colonists had many hardships, including food shortages and sickness. Ships did not arrive regularly until 1971, but once they did, the colony fared much better. The indigenous people, who are called the Eora, ended up much worse. In the early days of the colony, hundreds of the Eora people died from small pox and measles, spread to them by the Europeans. Because of this, and expansion of the towns destroying local food sources, the aboriginals resented the Europeans and led many raids on the settlers. They were led by a political leader, Pemulwuy. Despite these attacks, the settlers continued to live. In the mid-19th century, a series of gold rushes drastically increased Sydney's population, causing massive improvement in the city's infrastructure. Many other cities were created, and Australia's overall population began to expand towards what it is today.