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@retrobike_c16

23 days

Seems an appropriate day for a simple explainer of why so many railway projects blow out in cost. A 🧵 /1

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4 months

@MuskTillDawn Every engineer knew it instantly, I reckon

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I regret to inform you that the Boomers are at it again 😃

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‘Brisbane’ has entered the chat 🤡

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Los Angeles 2028, you have a problem #Paris2024

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5 months

Can’t tell you how many times we had the debate in ‘public consultation’ on Sydney Light Rail about how it would transform the streetscape. I remember banging the table a couple of times It’s clearly a disaster, compared to the previous traffic sewer 🫠

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6 months

@fesshole You made a mistake by shagging Ned Flanders tbh

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Loving these types finally realising Candace Owens is an idiot. Why didn’t the penny drop when she was saying insane shit that matched your prejudices? Any reflection? Hmmm? Morons 🤡🤪

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1 year

Still the ultimate public art. Never heard a bad word from anyone about it. Fantastic effort

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@fesshole Link to her profile? She sounds hot 👍

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3 months

I’m genuinely agnostic on nuclear but it seems a bit rich to bag the policy on the basis of it not being ‘fully costed including all the implications’ when exactly the same applies to the renewables + storage alternative

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2 years

@9NewsMelb Shocking piece of driving. How can they not have seen them?

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2 years

@9NewsQueensland That's what packaging is for. Does he imagine all the parcels at every point in their journey are lovingly levitated by elves and indvidually cared for?

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A hill I’m quite prepared to die on: the purpose of a public transport system is to transport the public, safely, quickly, conveniently, accessibly & efficiently Not to provide jobs to union members

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6 months

@thomas_violence Now try 1980s text adv games 'Get beer' - 'I'm sorry, I don't understand <get>' 'take beer' - 'I can't see it here' 'go fridge'

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@the_transit_guy Istanbul

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2 years

@jburnmurdoch Best solution: do one long haul flight with toddlers Any further long haul flight without them will feel like utter bliss and be completely fine, no matter how terrible the food, seat or service IME the inoculation from this experience is lifelong You’re welcome 👍

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One of the earliest design debates on Metro at Central was this view Tender design had flat sandstone blocks. Was Uber-exxy & had durability issues when we got to it. Lots of proposals. We ended up with sandstone-look faceted GRC (lightweight concrete) I think it looks ace

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A word about Sydney Metro (I know there’s been tons) The product *matters*. It is just a train, & yes they already exist here BUT this has been designed from ground up to be reliable, accessible, safe, frequent & fast That’s a difference. It’s wonderful people are seeing it 🙏

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@flemsha They could indeed……..

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2 years

@fesshole Can I have her phone number? There’s a solution here that suits all 👍

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8 months

@LinusEkenstam @paulsalele This is just nonsense. How can it be 5x cheaper than trams to operate? Think, man Start with considering the rolling resistance of rubber-concrete vs steel-steel You can get all wanky if you want, look up Hertzian mechanics, but it’s easy enough to grasp at the macro level

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F+ck me, really? 😬

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5 months

Anyway, this is why ‘public consultation’ gets way too much weight in the Anglosphere Every session was full of a self interested minority who were really just scared of change We live in cities, guys! By definition they are dynamic places where things happen/change! Chill 🤗

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28 days

All the ‘freedom lovers’ in the comments hankering for banning things, it’s weird Why do conservatives hate individual private transport so much? It’s completely inconsistent with their purported values

9News Melbourne

@9NewsMelb

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Hire e-scooters could soon be banned from Melbourne's CBD, with a motion to be put forward at a council meeting tonight to cancel contracts with operators Lime and Neuron. The companies will be given 30 days notice to remove their e-scooters from the streets if the motion

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5 months

@QuentinFry I mean, there’s an easy way out for them that will give them an extremely comfortable retirement, right? I doubt they’ll take it though as they’re fixated on ‘deserving’ a welfare payment 🤷‍♂️

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5 months

Look how taking away on street parking and through traffic ruins an area’s economy

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2 months

I literally lol when people use Chatswood as a perjorative It’s excellent, a vibrant and thriving sub-CBD. The preferred hangout for my son & mates. Great mix of resi, commercial, food & drink, totally multicultural Plus superb transport. Buses, Trains, metro, CBD in 15 mins

Sydney YIMBY

@SydneyYIMBY

2 months

Whole lot going on here: - Burwood and Chatswood used as negative examples 🤔 Those are wonderful places with extremely active high streets that people love to visit. - Pushing apartments onto Parra Rd instead of a few streets back where they’d have better amenity.

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What your PT system looks like when you give schoolkids free travel. So worth it, these would all be in cars otherwise 👍

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6 months

@anon_opin Nah. He’s good but would have played it for laughs too much. Only Oldman could mix smart/slobby, brutal/caring & with an undercurrent of menace in such a convincing way. Superb actor, his versatility is second to none

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4 months

Which is the least accurate popular misconception about Australia? A) ‘Classless society’ B) ‘Larrikin spirit’ C) ‘Honest battlers’

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@michaelsnape

4 months

25+ years of Chairman's Lounge access. Show me one politician criticising Qantas

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1 month

Venn diagram of those shrieking for the sacking of an officeworks employee and those who rail against ‘cancel culture’: ⭕️

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It’s a weird, racist dump with a medieval government dedicated to conspicuous consumption where hardly anyone has a real life. Tolerable for short periods only No, you can’t have an engagement click

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@retrobike_c16

7 months

Absolutely bursting 🤔

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@mary_glass

7 months

@westaustralian What a ridiculous statement, the state is bursting at its seams. Housing to both buy or rent is unobtainable. Why would anyone even consider bringing any more immigrants to any part of Australia? More training programs by employers might be a start to upskill.

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10 months

lol. You’ve got to be kidding me 🤡

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4 months

@fabiooreilly ‘Everywhere’ doing a lot of work here 🤗

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5 months

Jeez, it was so much better before ‘wokeness’ destroyed peoples’ right to drive everywhere 🙃

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5 months

2ndry benefit that’s really become apparent in the last 18mths: The section of George south of Bathurst was always pretty grotty and low rent It’s totally different now. Ties World Sq/Regent Place etc together, feels like the multi-ethnic centre of Syd, alive every night

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@retrobike_c16

2 years

Putting on more express trains isn’t as simple as it sounds, as it can *reduce* the capacity of your railway by quite a lot How? Railway capacity isn’t very intuitive The key constraint is how close trains can safely run together - the ‘headway’

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2 years

China just didn’t try hard enough 🤡

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5 months

If someone quotes you a price for a service, you agree on that basis, service is delivered and then 2 months later they come to you saying they under quoted and can they have some more money, they should wear that mistake, right?

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2 years

@Mon4Kooyong @ItsBouquet Tough. Where were your demands for all the evidence when rules were instituted? You’ve backed the wrong horse here. Vast majority are just moving on. You will eventually, but not before embarrassing yourself further

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2 years

@fesshole Vaseline is less likely to lead to embarrassment 👍

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19 days

This would do my head in if I lived in Melbourne, it’s relentless ‘Rephasing’ will ALWAYS increase total costs. It can’t not, anyone saying otherwise is a liar Tunnelling contracts are signed and early works constructed. The only feasible pause is to delay fitout, but…..

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The Suburban Rail Loop could be put on hold and the money allocated to other projects with very little electoral backlash, a polling company director says >

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@chrsdcook We care about all those things, Captain Strawman. But we also care about people having somewhere to live, and basic decency

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@fesshole Tell him, and apologise? Seems…..I don’t know. Easy? 🤷‍♂️

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1 year

@bootnrally @ZeroSuitCamus Yeah we’re not big on squirty cheese over here so I can see how they might have struggled

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10 months

Overheard convo on train: “we normally drive but 1 car’s in for service” - “doesn’t parking cost a lot?” “It’s not too bad, $38 if we go in together, train return for 2 would be $20” (ignores the ~35c x 50km) - “do you mostly go together?” “Not often” $20 PT vs $110 car 🤦‍♂️

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I’m sure there’s some subtweeting going on here but this is legit one of the great things about Australia - amount of well maintained green space for people with public facilities like this

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@Nirgal451

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Free public BBQ at the beach.

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2 years

@Mon4Kooyong No, neither. Why are you desperate to force restrictions on people that don’t do anything?

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@fesshole “And as if by magic, the tax keeper appeared *BING* “

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1 year

@Riogallica @KobieThatcher It’s been China Town for decades, bizarre take ‘Spot the Aussie’ how? By colour of skin? Want to have a think about that?

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@fictillius Half the point is no curfew you stupid clowns

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After experiencing proper Metro speeds, maybe people will realise that a 20 minute journey target from Sydney-Parramatta wasn’t that bad after all

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Why are otherwise intelligent people being sucked into this nonsense that Melbourne Airport rail will require a change at Sunshine? It’s moronic stuff

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Sydney is dead etc

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@AdenGlaven1994 Ablo is now responsible for your poor buying choices? Bit harsh

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2 years

@SParnis You kinda bring the ‘pile on’ yourselves tbh There’s an easy solution: stop banging on about masks as an effective population level mitigation. Because what you are doing here is precisely why they don’t work; in highest risk settings of all no one wears….not even avid maskers

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@Mon4Kooyong Indoor mask mandates? Get a grip It's demonstrably peaked already in Vic. Probably in NSW Where's your off ramp?

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@ConversationEDU @UNSW This is desperate. Almost all of their complaints are precisely WHY community masking can’t be shown to work - people wear them imperfectly or not at all in many settings. That’s the point guys; it’s real world effectiveness that matters

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@fesshole I dunno, it’s a metaphor for the whole thing. Cats think they are hard, independent carnivores, red in tooth and claw But are actually fat lazy layabouts, completely reliant on handouts

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‘My human right to be an entitled eastern suburbs NIMBY f+ck is being assaulted’

Residents lodge human rights complaint over Oxford Street cycleway

Island bus stops created by a separated bike lane force passengers to cross the bike lanes to get from the footpath to the bus stop.

www.smh.com.au

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2 years

Lol. Typical Teal NIMBYism Complaining about development….outside a train station with frequent service, that integrates with a bus station above, in easy cycling distance to the city You couldn’t make it up

Karen Freyer

@kgfreyer

2 years

Great morning at #Edgecliff #Vaucluse residents are very concerned about the 500 apartments the government want to build here. It's impossible to drive down New South and Old South Head Roads. We need to address our infrastructure needs first before we increase density.

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6 months

Actually a completely astute comment IMO. If we saw ourselves as such, rather than US/UK-lite, there are much clearer, better future visions available

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6 months

The main difference between Australia and New Zealand is that New Zealand knows it is a Pacific island nation.

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@juliemonry All this in 2 years? Outstanding work. They can deliver pretty much anything they want if that’s their track record

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@SkyNewsAust Why is he filming it in the first place? Reeks of a set up/performative outrage

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Sydney’s most egregious stroad. Ban cars from it, completely unnecessary

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1 year

Lots of talk about extra stations on Metro West today. This is going to cost a lot if they so decide I say this because many lay people imagine things can be changed easily until the day before construction, but they can’t. Will try and speculate on change process /1

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@SharriMarkson I think he deliberately set it up and tried to provoke, for reasons of performative outrage. Why else is he filming the whole encounter? That’s weird Now he/you are trying to get a lowly shop worker sacked. Thats pretty grubby

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Just used public transport to get home from the other side of the city (~55km) in 1.5 hrs without using a timetable, catching 2 trains Turn up, wait (10 mins), catch train. Changeover in city at 10.25pm, 10 mins. Frequency is everything The Melby brane cannot comprehend this 😈

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Got the prime standing to watch the world go by spot 😊

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Honestly think this will be another game changer. A key part of making Parramatta another CBD - it’s already changed out of sight in the past 10 yrs

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@TransportforNSW

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🚋The Parramatta Light Rail project reached milestone today as a 45-metre tram made its first test run into the heart of Parramatta’s central business district during the off-peak hours of between 10am and 3pm. Head to our website for more information: .

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@ACABylonBee I love the way it shows up one of the key issues about trying to make something out of flat panels when ‘tolerance’ enters the chat….just as everyone told the tool it would

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@drajm Nope. It just means society has moved on, even if you haven’t. Penny dropping yet?

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@hinkrease Today. A random Wednesday evening in Autumn, not especially nice or cold, but not raining. Normal

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1 year

Yes champion. It’s over and you lost Best flog off those monitors before you get left with too much unsold stock 👍

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6 months

It would never pass any sort of BCR test today. Sometimes we need to be visionary and not mechanistic

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It’s almost been 100 years since construction started on this enduring masterpiece. I’m still awestruck. A truly remarkable feat of vision by our forebears.

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@urbanizationist Just wrong. It’s so much more than that

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1 year

Lol. This goose still thinks intercepting Covid at borders in sensible/feasible What an imbecile 🤡

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1 year

Good to see the Greens getting really arsey at being rightly tagged as hypocritical NIMBYs. Criticism must be hitting home There’s an easy solution guys 👍

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That ‘Raygun’ discourse went mighty quiet, mighty suddenly, didn’t it? Like flicking a switch 🤔

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Poking about in NIMBY Central 🤗

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@retrobike_c16

4 months

Cycling, famously excluding kids and people who can’t afford cars since 1880 Ludicrous take. The only genuine exclusion is disability

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Your regular reminder than unlike public transport cycling is not a solution to mass transit & is inherently exclusionary. It merely disproportionately excludes the old, the young, the disabled, women, those on lower incomes. Very 'progressive'.

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Lol. When you paint yourself into a corner to align yourself with a tribe and even they aren’t happy 😃

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Happy birthday to me 😂 2 laps of Centennial Park at lunchtime to burn that off I reckon 😃 🚲

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@TheKouk ‘Very near this point’? You need to get a grip

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@realCarrickRyan Long term biker, I always hated noisy exhausts. Like wearing a dick strapped to your forehead

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@hamhammer27 Insane. ‘We don’t need this $300m of rail upgrade but we desperately need this shopping list of about $20bn of roads’ 👍

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I fear Australia is heading down a path of increasing NIMBYism, anti-immigrationism (with the usual whiff), anti-privatisation & general cynicism (eg obsession with seeing everything as corrupt) It all feels very short sighted and whingey. Where’s the opportunism & future focus?

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2 years

@Gerashchenko_en Hmm. It’s not as badly damaged as I’d hoped

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@fesshole All good. Gives you pretty much carte blanche to start an affair, you’ll easily get away with it now👍

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lol. Wynyard absolutely deserted at 8am, loads of people skiving off due to rain 😃

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You talk like that’s a good thing, giving scarce taxpayers’ cash away to Transurban 🤦‍♂️

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2 years

Lockdown - the ‘bare minimum’ It’s November 2022 🤡

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2 years

@Matty2002au12 @DanielAndrewsMP @Dom_Perrottet What? From Melbourne, which won’t have a line to the airport for another 6-8 years, whereas trains to Sydney’s currently run at a better frequency than that?

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2 years

Going to the tennis is just like being Hitler Your mind on Zeroism 👍

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2 years

ITYM ‘I’ve had enough of having my arse handed to me on a plate’

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10 months

It makes the surrounding buildings green with envy 😤

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@retrobike_c16

3 months

The width of this road is egregious. An absolute joke. Needs one general traffic lane e/w even for its current service. If I had my way it would be buses, taxis, trams & pushbikes only

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@sydthenandnow

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1961(?) ~ 2024 Top photo shows removal of the tram tracks along Eddy Ave next to Central Station. Trams are back here, now being placed next to the Central Station building, rather than on the middle of the road. [VisitSydneyAus>A Jedrych]

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Anyway, glad to see Teal NIMBYism get absolutely nowhere 🙂

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