Sydney Metro is requesting public comment on its "Draft Pitt Street Station Design and Precinct Plan" - the SDPP. www.sydneymetro.info/station/pitt-street-station I think the draft is pathetic. It focusses on the visual impacts of the building facades, almost ignoring the prime function of the stati...

All stations should be named with a weighting toward those who have most to lose if the station name is misleading - the train passengers. I vote for "Wynyard West" at Barangaroo.

And the station with the current name of "Pitt Street" should be called "Park Street" - much more focussed.
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Tramway overhead "rosettes" are a collectors' item, world wide.

Great pix - thanks all.
There was a regular school run in the 50s by the blue-and-cream liveried, semi-trailored AEC Matador, between the residency "Masonic Schools" at Baulkham Hills and Westmead Tech. in Hawkesbury Road, Westmead.

MP Adam Crouch's press secretary has forgotten to tell him how much the passengers will enjoy travelling backwards!

....to borrow, buy or whatever.
Your responses might get lost here.
Better to text 0418 169 095 I think.
Thanks in anticipation.

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Aparently the corridor is being threatened again, in the NSW Parliament.

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MEDIA MISTAKES..... "It's an even bigger weekend for young racegoers, who will venture to Rosehill Gardens for the Golden Rose meeting tomorrow.....before falling ONTO THE TRAIN torn asunder with disappointment............" (Andrew Webster's column, Sydney Morning Herald, 25-9-20) They'll be even fu...

^^^^According to Gregory's 1938 street directory, the area betwen Marrickville Station and Cooks River was known as "The Warren".

^^^^^^^Asbestos in "gaskets" shouldn't be difficult to remedy. Much more serious is the apparent omission of destination indicators. The current practice of having the deck-hand yell something indiscernable above the roar of the ferry engine tugging at the bollard is amateurish, crude, and completel...

At last, we now know why the front of the Metro cars is so UGLY!

Hear hear Tony!

Canaday Bay Council is currently seeking feeedback on its concept plans for a $7 Million bike route through Concord, Five Dock and to the Bay Run, fully funded by the NSW Government. Feedback is required by 12 August 2020. Have your say by contacting Council's online community engagement platform at...

"Hear hear" Scania...^^^

What are those round things sticking out below the Ford's bumper, and what is their purpose?

Parramatta Council is calling for expressions of interest for a cyclist / pedestrian bridge over the Parramatta River at Alfred Street, describing it as "the first true Diagonal Arch bridge in Australia". (SMH, 28/7/20)
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"On February 3 2016, an employee of Punchbowl Bus Co Pty Ltd attempted to stop a runaway bus on Park Road, Hurstville. The employee was crushed between the runaway bus and the rear of another bus parked in front. The employee suffered fatal injuries. SafeWork NSW investigated the incident and subseq...

^^^Ditto for the cruise vessel emblazoned "Supercat", which has also left its berth on the west side of Cockatoo Is.
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^^^^^^^^^^^Details of the vehicle to be converted might heighten interest among candidates!
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It's important that the new shelters be functional. The Decaux shelters are not. If you sit on the seat you cant see the bus coming because of the advertising.

Transport for NSW has just updated its newspaper advertising schedule for this project. They now intend to advertise in the Auburn Review, the Fairfield, and Liverpool local newspapers.
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Was it Levers who imported that big Mack, with the unique registration no., about 40 years ago?
Where is it now?

The hardly-ever-used tourist ferry, long moored in the Sutherland Dock at Cockatoo, has gone. Anybody kow where?

Another egotist, in the name of Tony Robinson, otherwise going by the name of "Baldrick", has joined the ranks of rail tourist dragging along a TV crew. Emulating Portillo, his egotism even extends to a "Sir" in the credits! But I confess to enjoying his 2020 visit to El Paso, Texas, with its beauti...

Some good shots of the Sydenham Metro construction; hope that's the roof we're looking at, not the floor!