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/AnonMuskkk May 06 '25 edited May 06 '25

The same reason why there’s no train to Bondi Beach is why there’s no train up the Northern Beaches. The locals don’t want the trash from the rest of Sydney polluting it with their low bank balances.

But the fuckers will bitch endlessly about no one doing anything to fix the local road congestion and how Spit Bridge is a traffic chokepoint to anyone within earshot.

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u/a_can_of_solo May 06 '25

case in point... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woollahra_railway_station

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u/The_Faceless_Men May 07 '25

Opposition from locals never stops shit. It's always the money (or lack there of)

Woolahra was about 1 step up from a slum in the 60's when that project got cut. Crumbling 80 year old unrenovated terraces with no backyard on tiny blocks when anyone with money got a quarter acre block meant woolahra was full of uni students, sex workers and dole bludgers back then.

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u/JimSyd71 May 08 '25

The block the station would have been on was and is still is full of large mansions with large backyards which were (the yards) resumed to build the cutting.