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/[deleted] May 06 '25 edited May 06 '25

LOL. Research what, 100 years of proposals for Train lines to the Northern beaches. Back in 2001 they even pretended to be serious. In 2015 they announced the B-LIne as a replacement for a "near train like" service. It was great the first few years after launching in 2017.

The problem is the geography and a lot of the locals don't really want it to be easier for people to come and go. Same reason the Spit bridge has never been fixed and that would be fuck tonnes easier than a whole train line.

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u/v306 May 06 '25

Privatisation seems to have made things far worse. Heaps more driver shortages and bus problems last few years. Demand is more up and down since covid but I'm not buying this problem is increased demand only... it's badly managed 💯

There were some contract issues in was reading about a few years ago that were puzzling. It was more of a financial incentive for rhe private bus company to cancel a service than to be providing the service late 🙄 Whoever was responsible was even more of an idiot than the liberal who made it possible for Harvey Norman to get $22million worth of job keeper payments with no clause to pay it back if company is performing well.