From , Transport for NSW began publishing a separate live parking count for Gordon Henry St South. ParkRide Planner now collects that count alongside Gordon North, giving commuters two distinct options to check before driving to the station.
The important distinction: separate live data began on 11 August. This does not mean a brand-new car park opened that day. South-side commuter parking existed earlier; the new part is that commuters can now see its availability separately.
What changed on 11 August
We now have separate live data for Gordon South. The live feed shows:
- Gordon South has its own live availability count;
- the monitored car park has 331 spaces;
- it is separate from the 213-space Gordon North car park; and
- ParkRide Planner has saved every Gordon South reading made available from 11 August onward.
At publication on 12 August, these first two days were enough for live availability but not a typical fill time. Update, 26 September 2026: Plan now has six or seven usable examples for each weekday and provides Gordon South guidance. The Gordon parking guide explains the current position; the observations below remain the original first-two-days study.
What the first two days show
Gordon South history begins at 10:00 am on 11 August. The first reading already showed zero spaces, so there is no earlier morning curve showing when the car park filled. Spaces began to return after midday and continued recovering through the afternoon.
On 12 August, the first complete morning in the available history, Gordon South started with more than 320 spaces. Availability fell quickly after 7:00 am, reached about 100 spaces around 8:00 am and about 50 around 9:00 am. It stayed tight through the middle of the day, with roughly 30 spaces at its lowest point, but did not reach exact full.
Read this carefully: 11 August is a partial day that begins after the car park had already filled. 12 August is one complete morning, not a typical pattern. The two lines are observed history, not a forecast.
Gordon North and South are now shown separately
Gordon North and Gordon South now appear as separate car parks, with a combined 544 monitored spaces. A commuter can compare the two rather than relying on one station-wide number.
Swipe across to compare both car parks.
| Car park | Monitored spaces | Train services | In ParkRide Planner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gordon Henry St North | 213 | T1, T9 | Separate live availability |
| Gordon Henry St South | 331 | T1, T9 | Separate live availability |
The combined number covers these two monitored Park & Ride car parks. It is not a count of every possible parking space around Gordon station.
See both Gordon car parks in the app
North and South stay separate.
Search for Gordon to compare each car park's spaces, capacity, practical-full status and update time before choosing a side of the station.
The example shown here captured both car parks live and practically full. The counts are illustrative, not current availability.
Why separate live availability matters
A single Gordon total would hide a practical choice. North may be constrained while South still has room, or the reverse. Separate counters let commuters compare the two before committing to one approach.
More useful than a station-wide total
Drivers can see which side has space instead of discovering the difference after reaching Gordon.
Separate alerts for each car park
You can favourite, monitor and set scheduled updates for North or South separately.
History starts separately
South builds its own weekday patterns instead of borrowing Gordon North's behaviour.
What Gordon North usually does
ParkRide Planner's production history for Gordon North covers 47 valid normal-term weekdays from to . It became practically full on all 47 of those days.
The 12-week pattern recorded on 12 August put Gordon North's practical-full time around 7:15–7:35 am from Monday to Thursday, and around 8:25 am on Friday. ParkRide Planner treats a car park as practically full only when very few spaces remain for a sustained period, rather than reacting to one noisy reading.
Do not transfer these times to South: Gordon North's history explains why another visible option is useful. It does not tell us when South will fill or how drivers will split between the two car parks.
Building Gordon South's 12-week guidance
ParkRide Planner has backfilled all Gordon South history made available from 11 August and will keep collecting new readings from now on.
By 26 September, enough matching weekdays had accumulated for Plan guidance: six examples each for Monday and Tuesday, and seven each for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The app uses those available days within the past 12 weeks, rather than claiming a complete 12-week history.
Use the weekday guidance to plan, then compare North and South's live spaces and update times before leaving. The history remains shorter than at long-established car parks and cannot guarantee a space.
What remains unknown
No primary source located for this review established a public opening date for a new 331-space structure. Ku-ring-gai Council records show commuter parking already existed around Gordon station, while a secondary parking guide described Henry St South as operating before separate live data began.
What we can say is newly available as separate live data, not newly opened on 11 August. It remains unclear whether monitoring was added to an existing south-side area, whether spaces were regrouped or whether a physical change also occurred.
Gordon South is supported across the current iPhone experience, including Plan, Siri and Shortcuts, Home Screen widget selection and Apple Watch. The Gordon parking guide keeps both car parks, their capacities and live comparison in one place.
A separate comparison would be needed to determine whether North's pattern changed after South became visible. The original first-two-days study does not establish that effect.
Sources and disclosure
- Transport for NSW Open Data: live car park availability, updated 11 August 2026.
- Transport for NSW: live parking documentation, used to confirm Gordon South's name, location and monitored capacity.
- Transport for NSW: Transport Park&Ride car parks, for access arrangements and eligibility for up to 18 hours of free parking.
- Ku-ring-gai Council: Parking, listing council and commuter parking around Gordon station.
- The Post: Park & Ride Gordon and Thornleigh commuter parking, published 1 April 2026 (secondary background source).
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