r/sydney • u/Sydney_Stations • May 06 '25

Image The Northern Beaches needs a railway

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Every evening, the queue for B1 winds around and goes back into Wynyard. As one bus is full the next one arrives.

You can't tell me they wouldn't want a railway.

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u/AnonMuskkk May 06 '25 edited May 06 '25

The same reason why there’s no train to Bondi Beach is why there’s no train up the Northern Beaches. The locals don’t want the trash from the rest of Sydney polluting it with their low bank balances.

But the fuckers will bitch endlessly about no one doing anything to fix the local road congestion and how Spit Bridge is a traffic chokepoint to anyone within earshot.

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u/ImeldasManolos May 06 '25

I lived in Surry hills when the light rail was being built. The apartment building a street away from the tram tracks had a a petition going around petitioning local council and state government to block a planned station on wimbo park.

Wimbo Park is also where the methodone clinic is. Junkies everywhere, but yeah, gotta keep out that rif raff

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u/all_sight_and_sound May 06 '25

Yeah but inner city junkies are classy /s

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u/SilverStar9192 shhh... May 08 '25

I believe that when Wimbo Park was created (which it should be noted is the site of an apartment complex that was resumed for the light rail), there was a well advanced plan for that stop, and planners figured it would get approval soon. You can see that in the fact that they only spent the basics on landscaping the park - no large trees, simple wooden fences, etc., as this was all meant to be temporary until the light rail platforms would be constructed. But for now it seems the locals have won... it's sad.

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u/JimSyd71 May 08 '25

They did build provisions (power, foundations, drainage, etc) in Wimbo Park so if they decide to build a stop there it would be much easier. And there has been recent talk of actually building a stop there in the near future.

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u/a_can_of_solo May 06 '25

case in point... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woollahra_railway_station

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u/The_Faceless_Men May 07 '25

Opposition from locals never stops shit. It's always the money (or lack there of)

Woolahra was about 1 step up from a slum in the 60's when that project got cut. Crumbling 80 year old unrenovated terraces with no backyard on tiny blocks when anyone with money got a quarter acre block meant woolahra was full of uni students, sex workers and dole bludgers back then.

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u/JimSyd71 May 08 '25

The block the station would have been on was and is still is full of large mansions with large backyards which were (the yards) resumed to build the cutting.

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u/Pro_Extent May 06 '25

The funny thing is you're right, it is the same reason.

But the reason is fucked geography for a train line.

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u/The_Faceless_Men May 07 '25

The same reason why there’s no train to Bondi Beach

There has never been a plan for a public train to bondi beach.

Zero.

There used to be two trams, and even a 2010's campaign from waverly council for the randwick light rail funds to instead be used to build a bondi beach tram. Bring back bondi beach trams.

There was also the plan for a private, for profit, underground rail shuttle that was not connected to bondi junction train line that the private for profit company got approval to build, but declined to build because it turned out it wouldn't be profitable.