Streets around Martin Place open again

Martin Place remains closed after the Lindt cafe siege ended with three dead, but surrounding streets are beginning buzz again with traffic.

Elizabeth Street has reopened in the Sydney CBD in both directions.

An exclusion zone continues to operate around Martin Place.

Thousands of Sydneysiders have been making their way nearby to a makeshift shrine to honour those who lost their lives in the siege.

Phillip Street remains closed in both directions between King Street and Hunter Street and King Street is also still closed in both directions between Elizabeth Street and Phillip Street.

For much of Monday night and into the early hours of Tuesday, Martin Place was eerily calm.

People who work in this zone have been asked to work from home but everyone else is being encouraged to go about their business as normal.

Martin Place train station remains closed, but bus services are all returning to regular routes now that Elizabeth Street has reopened.

NSW Parliament has now reopened to the public, with access once again possible via Macquarie Street.

The cafe hostage drama came to a bloody end in the early hours of Tuesday when police stormed the Lindt Chocolat cafe.

Two hostages and the gunman were killed while four people, including a police officer, were injured.

The lone gunman held 17 hostages during the siege.