Gladys Berejiklian

[Black Orchid]

Well I certainly do not like Gladys, Andrew Constance and nor did I like Mike Baird. If the Libs want to get another foot in the door in the next 10 years they need to up their game.

Gladys sells everything off that isn't bolted down, has swamped Sydney with box cutter unit blocks that are sold to the Chinese and then left empty, encourages foreign property investment and at present our train network is an absolute shambles. Half the trains are not even air conditioned.

[Black Orchid]

NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley has promised Labor will prioritise the Metro West project if elected to government in 2019.
Mr Foley described Metro West as "the most needed transport improvement for Sydney".

"We'll be able to fund it because we won't be squandering millions as the Liberals are on inferior transport projects," Mr Foley told a press conference.

The government initially announced the Metro West project in November 2016.
Under the government's timetable, construction would begin on the new line by 2022, with trains beginning to carry passengers from the second half of next decade.

Metro West is predicted to double rail capacity from Parramatta to the CBD.

While Labor has not committed to a timeframe for the project, it has promised to prioritise it and build it "years earlier".

It believes the Metro West project would be affordable because Labor would save money by not proceeding with the government's plan to build the northern beaches road tunnel nor convert the existing heavy rail line from Sydenham to Bankstown into a metro line.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/lab ... 4z86g.html

Doesn't matter what Labor promise in NSW because Gladys has every intention of locking us in to her own plans before the next election. They will go ahead or we will be crippled with penalties.

It's just all about "me"

[Gordon]

Well I certainly do not like Gladys, Andrew Constance and nor did I like Mike Baird. If the Libs want to get another foot in the door in the next 10 years they need to up their game.

Gladys sells everything off that isn't bolted down, has swamped Sydney with box cutter unit blocks that are sold to the Chinese and then left empty, encourages foreign property investment and at present our train network is an absolute shambles. Half the trains are not even air conditioned.

I wish they'd gone with Gabriel Upton over Gonzo.

[skippy]

Now she is turning one of Sydney's oldest Housing Commission suburbs into a new 'city'. 5,000 new homes with 3 in 10 set aside for low income housing. What is she intending to do with the other 7 out of 10?

Taking it from 600 homes to 5,000 and whilst it will take many years to complete the infrastructure to support this will not be seen until 2023.

Way to go Gladys

What suburb is that? There are probably still housing commission houses in some suburbs that have now become very middle class. I remember working in Surry hills thirty years ago and there were gov houses still there. I imagine now that suburb would have many houses worth millions.

[Black Orchid]

I think it was somewhere near Parramatta but cookie cutter unit blocks are appearing weekly along the north shore. It's unbelievable how fast they are going up. They are just growing and growing at a horrifically fast rate. They can't be safe.

One week you will drive along a street full of houses with no for sale signs evident. A week later all the houses are gone and the land is levelled and the next week there are rows and rows and rows of ugly cookie cutter cheap looking unit blocks almost complete. I should take some pics.

Someone is making a lot of money but I bet we will have future safety concerns. Anthony Roberts has turned his electorate into something that is hard to distinguish from Hong Kong.

[Black Orchid]

Ripping out Sydney's extensive tram system in the 1960s was one of the dumbest decisions ever made. Ditto burying the train line throughout the Hills area, of which some of the old lines and stations still exist and are ignored.

Sydney had the biggest tram system in the southern hemisphere and now Gladys is spending billions of dollars on a system that will leave NSW in debt even after she is thrown out of office, which will inevitably happen. The next NSW government will be left with a nightmare.

[Gordon]

Ripping out Sydney's extensive tram system in the 1960s was one of the dumbest decisions ever made. Ditto burying the train line throughout the Hills area, of which some of the old lines and stations still exist and are ignored.

Sydney had the biggest tram system in the southern hemisphere and now Gladys is spending billions of dollars on a system that will leave NSW in debt even after she is thrown out of office, which will inevitably happen. The next NSW government will be left with a nightmare.

BO I heard a very interesting radio interview about the old trams today. Apparently by the time they were pulled out the entire system was rooted. Mostly 1920s tech and most of the tracks were corroded.

There was no money to redo it at the time.

[Black Orchid]

[Black Orchid]

Ripping out Sydney's extensive tram system in the 1960s was one of the dumbest decisions ever made. Ditto burying the train line throughout the Hills area, of which some of the old lines and stations still exist and are ignored.

Sydney had the biggest tram system in the southern hemisphere and now Gladys is spending billions of dollars on a system that will leave NSW in debt even after she is thrown out of office, which will inevitably happen. The next NSW government will be left with a nightmare.

BO I heard a very interesting radio interview about the old trams today. Apparently by the time they were pulled out the entire system was rooted. Mostly 1920s tech and most of the tracks were corroded.

There was no money to redo it at the time.

I read something similar.

The end of Sydney's affair with the tram.

The advent of World War II had a positive and negative impact on the Sydney tram network. With the war raging on in Europe, there was little money available for maintenance and repairs.

"The overhead track all needed major repairs and the trams were getting really old," Professor Lee said.

"So rather than repairing all the tracks, repairing all the overhead on massive tramway network ... it was considered easier just to bring the buses in to take over."

During the 1940s the NSW Government commissioned experts from London to write a report on Sydney's public transport system.

The report, put together by London Transport executives GF Sinclair, AF Andrews and ER Ellen, recommended the total closure of the Sydney tram network in phases, by 1960.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-12/s ... ey/9610328

It's a bit sad that we had to ask the Brits what to do

[skippy]

One of the best things about Melbourne, IMO, is the trams. It is so simple to get around in a quick economical manner. As a tourist there I tend to stay right in the the city centre, last year I stayed in an air BNB in little Colin st, and all of the trams that run in that city centre area are free to use.
I was born and bred in Sydney, but I hate to visit there nowadays,it’s a mess.