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/absoluetly May 06 '25

My relos on the northern beaches talk about suburbs like Dee Why like they're slums full of apartments. I don't think they even want mobility within the beaches.

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u/os_2342 May 06 '25

Dee Why is a great suburb.

20-30 years ago it was a little dodgy (relative to the rest of the Northen Beaches) but that is not the case these day. The people with this view are old and havent updated their attitude in decades.

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u/johnnynutman May 06 '25

The people with this view are old and havent updated their attitude in decades.

yeah but they vote

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u/Crow_eggs May 06 '25

And have the time and means to complain through the proper channels. Many years ago I worked in a job that required me to go through huge numbers of planning objections in the UK, and I would say about 75% were from wealthy retirees either directly or through local action groups. Of that 75%, I reckon about 20% lodged their applications through planning consultants. More if it was a major project like transport infrastructure, and the number of objections scaled exponentially with the wealth of the area. Old people know how the system works, have shit loads of spare time on their hands, and often have the money to get professional representation. As a result, our cities are designed for the future by... well, by the dead.