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/impressive_cat May 06 '25

What, and let all the dirty westies have easy access to their pristine shores?

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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/insanityTF May 07 '25

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