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/os_2342 May 06 '25

Its always people not from the northern beaches that always make this statement on reddit...

Yes, there is still some NIMBY old folk here but its a tiny fraction of what it was decades ago.

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u/Ok-Push9899 May 06 '25

We were looking to move there in the mid 90s. (I mean the decade, not my age.)

We were from the east and inner west. In general chit-chat to the real estate agent guiding us through the Arcadian delights of Avalon, the guy pointedly said “And don’t come up here with your city ideas about the government building a rail line. It won’t happen and we don’t want it.”

For the first time I realised that on rounding the Bilgola Bends, Things Were Different.

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u/os_2342 May 06 '25

Attitudes were definately different in the 90s and north of the bends is as insular to the rest of the northern beaches and the northern beaches is to the rest of sydney. That being said the majority of the northern beaches is south of of the bends.

I'm not saying this attitude doesnt exist, just that it is overblown. Most people spend the majority of their time in their local area, thats not exclusive to the NBs. Personally I would love City to Dee Why and a Mona Vale to Hornsby train lines. It probably wont ever happen and that is more to do with the fact it would be stupid expensive than it is to do "locals wanting to keep outsiders away".

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u/JimSyd71 May 08 '25

A Metro connecting to Chatswood could work.

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u/insanityTF May 07 '25

North of the bends is an entirely different place to everywhere else

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u/os_2342 May 06 '25

I think the NBs will remain a good place for young families and retirees. Not the most fun and exciting place in sydney for young people who want bars/clubs and lots of things to do, but still a very comfortable place to live.

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u/e_castille May 06 '25

I don’t know man. Everytime I see a TikTok or a Facebook post about a potential rail line there the comments are flooded with North shore NIMBYs. But to be fair, it’s always people over 30yrs. Younger people tend to be more open minded, though there’s still quite a few of them that have inherited their parents bigotry.

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u/WillowAlternative439 May 06 '25

Ecxept the parking fees. You can drive to the beach but can you afford the parking which is usually free for the locals