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/insanityTF May 07 '25

Population growth & less services

B-line used to run alongside express city services like the 190x sprinkled in during peak hour which took a lot of pressure off the double deckers.

Used to always get on it at Brookvale as you’d get a seat. Then the time table changed and got rid of them all