Sydney CBD. Lane Cove Road (A3), traverses North Ryde from north to south, linking Sydney's North Shore to Homebush Bay and Sydney Olympic Park. Epping Road runs west to east and crosses the Lane Cove River Bridge to link the City of Ryde to the Municipality of Lane Cove. North Ryde is serviced by public buses, primarily the Routes 285-297, 506, and 533-535 which criss-cross the district. Private shuttle buses provide local and Airport services. North Ryde railway station is an underground railway station on the Epping to Chatswood railway line that opened on 29 February 2009. It is located close to the intersection of Epping Road and Delhi Road, near the M2 Motorway. North Ryde station closed in September 2018 for seven months for conversion to a Sydney Metro station on the Sydney Metro Northwest line, which included the installation of platform screen doors. It reopened 26 May 2019. It is serviced by automated Metro driverless trains terminating at Chatswood for connections to the city until Sydney Metro City & Southwest opens in 2024. The area once known as North Ryde now has three underground railway stations, North Ryde, Macquarie Park, and Macquarie University. A major transport interchange is planned at Macquarie. Parks and reserves North Ryde has many beautiful parks and reserves, including North Ryde Common, and the adjacent Lane Cove National Park, the Field of Mars Reserve, and access to the Great North Walk and the Lane Cove River, once home to the famous Fairyland picnic grounds, when boatloads of people would come up the river from Sydney for the regular Saturday Dances. Today very little remains of Fairyland and it is almost completely overgrown. North Ryde Park received a major upgrade in 2009 with fully refurbished amenities block and a new children's play area. Blenheim Park is a multi-functional family park and features an off-leash area for dogs. The Lane Cove River Tourist Park is a (paid/for a fee) caravan park nestled in a bush setting in the Lane Cove National Park, just a few minutes walk from the North Ryde underground railway station. Sport and recreation Macquarie University Theatre has winter programs of classical concerts and other performances, by invitation from the University Vice-Chancellor. North Ryde Golf Club is an 18-hole par 69 golf course, with quality dining, wedding and corporate function facilities. It was previously a site for motorcycle racing in the late 1920s.