Dylan

Likes urban spaces, nightlife, sustainable transport, affordable housing.
Hates housing supply imbalance between West and East Sydney.

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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.

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@pfh007 Im an urbanist (aka yimby) but it has to be part of a coordinated approach of supply AND demand measures to result in housing affordability. I became interested in urbanism because I wanted lively neighbourhoods, not because I thought density alone would sufficiently reduce cost

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@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

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@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

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

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@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

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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.

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@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

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@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.

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@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.

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@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.

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

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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

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@_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

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@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 😢

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@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.

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@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.

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@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

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@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.

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

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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.