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My backstory for anyone interested - when I started supporting more density so more inner city neighbourhoods would be buzzy and interesting like Kings Cross - a detached house in middle Sydney was $350k.

@central01000011 I inspected one of these and the bedroom was only big enough for a bed. All your clothes etc would need to go in the living room so that was a hard pass. Impractical AF

So glad we have this row of cute little houses just one km from the city

@disco___cat Edgeware and Bedwin should be 40 as well and it's insane they were 60 til now... That said they dropped Elizabeth St at Redfern/Waterloo to 40 and everyone overtakes me doing 60 still like I'm doing 40 for the hell of it

Excellent news for Inner West Sydney. 50 kmph residential streets should be a thing of the past across our cities.

@SpachusAus I always stalk listing pics when peers move - the Australian way

📸 We’re seeing a huge spike in daily requests to remove floor plans and internal photos from listings — all in the name of privacy and safety. Is Australia getting more paranoid, or just more privacy-conscious? 🤔 Also, let’s be real: once photos hit the internet, they’re basically there forever. What do you think? 👀 #PrivacyConcerns #RealEstateReality #DigitalFootprint

@samlutd Isn't there only like 1 SHL to Central a week? Haha The lack thereof is prob part of the reason T8 is the most reliable suburban line

@Dyllip Eh I catch the SHL from Macarthur (as the T8 is way too long) and there’ll be like no one on it from the non-electrified stations. BM/CCN lines I can get but like I fail to see a problem here

If you choose to catch an intercity from a suburban station and it's delayed or cancelled but suburban services are running fine, you have no right to whinge, those trains aren't meant for you anyway.

@Panda_BuildLove No problem with suburbanites using intercities, I am one, problem with people *with alternatives* whinging about them. Imagine there were no SCO trains due an incident leaving you stranded and some gronk from Sutherland was whinging they had to catch an on-time all stops instead

@Dyllip i’m an intercity user on sco line which shares parts of T4, and i have absolutely no issue with people using the trains because if there’s space then what’s wrong with it being used? The T4 trains are definitely more overcrowded than SCO trains, and it costs nothing to let in

@thmsenglsh Not only is new construction in this area not 9 times higher than this, it's about half as high. Makes sense in a housing crisis.

All this should be like 9 times higher #buildbuildbuild

@eshaaanes Same argument applies to use metro over ST for reliability! If you hedge your bets on an intercity for your commute, it's going to be more unreliable. Unfortunately how things are.

@Dyllip Are you a mushroom? Because this is a shiitake.

@central01000011 I just get the next all stops 3 mins after the express without whinging tbh and sympathise with those with those that dont have an alternative. I think people are misunderstanding a post about people's time management and contingency.

@Dyllip This is an odd station to die on

In other countries, trains from different cities would not be picking up suburban passengers *at all* or for a hefty seperate fare.

The guy complaining was going to the airport. If the 14 minute different between and all stops and an express makes or breaks your airport travel plan, you are probably a moron that hasn't left anywhere near enough time

@_colourmeamused People going to or from outside the suburban network with no or limited service yes, people hitching a faster ride to Hurstville or Hornsby with plenty of all and limited stops on time available are being a bit entitled

@Dyllip lol no this is austerity mindset, the same stuff that gets you BRTs and Murrays buses and other substandard slop as transport that wouldn’t fly in countries not half as rich as Australia

@Kaath_Kilo Iswtg I met an urban designer from Kuringai Council at a bar once about 5 years ago and he said they were working on a Turramurra bus interchange upgrade but not seen anytgung public since 😢

Oh hey it's fixed

@BeauGiles I used this once, and staff had to come and check my trolley at checkout (after they were busy helping other customers so time blew out) defeating the purpose of the whole thing. Entrenched my hatred of Woolies

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@cmkusher Forget outskirts, you can be 5 hrs drive to both Sydney or Brisbane (ie. Extremely remote by global standards) and it's STILL urban prices and lot sizes.

I wonder, if you gave people the opportunity to move to larger lots on the city’s outskirts and upzone inner and middle ring properties if they would take it? 1/2

@retrobike_c16 @A22306A @youruncledingus I always thought people would cotton on and loads would eventually even out but doesn't seem to be the case. And it's a lose-lose for passengers, you won't get a seat in the rear carriages and overcrowding means slower boarding and delay. Weird humans.

@Dyllip @A22306A @youruncledingus I just going a quieter car and walk 100m more. Not exactly a hardship

just noticed this on gmaps this morning, what an awesome wayfinding feature!

@A22306A @youruncledingus I hope we don't! Some lines have bad load balance because people already sit close to where the exit will be eg. North Shore Line outbound to Hornsby the rear two carriages are always busy to borderline overcrowded when the 1st carriage can be near empty

@youruncledingus don't have this for sydney trains yet, but rolled out across most of Japan

@ajmns_au Shame it's not the same for east to west, namely Darling Harbour to Hyde Park via Town Hall. Noone seems to want to touch it. Badly needs a pedestrian spine.

The George St project was magnificent, but so much more has been done in the last 15 years. In Sydney, we can cross, or walk around, the entire CBD from south to north or vice versa almost entirely without having to deal with traffic lights or vehicles.

@fictillius The Central Walk individual toilets have been closed a few months at this point

Sydney Metro: sheen coming off stations a year after opening smh.com.au/national/nsw/h…

Sure, Working From Home may be good for the person doing it, but what about us other household members? Like yay now I have zero 'me time' to be home by myself.