Sydney metro is the most uncomfortable, cheap, low quality, dehumanising, thing to exist on Sydney Transport. Hope someone hacks it and brings it to a standstill. Sydneysiders don;t deserve to stand on a rickety rackity train for over half an hour. Poor planning, wasted money converted perfectly fine tracks to this bs. Sydney 'metro' is nothing to be proud of, its an embarrassment to Sydney and our impecible history of comfort and human interaction Sydney Trains and the many companies before it (City Rail) provided to Sydney Siders. Jo Haylen needs the sack after whats shes done. Most hopeless transport minister, whos pockets are filled with developers who only benefit from they 'metro'. Rezoning around these stations make them rich while the gov privitises and sells of the new train network and provides us with 30% seated and 70% standing capacity on a bloody 52km line! I would rather drive and spew out petrol fumes then go through all that bs. You have the most bias since you live in the hills, never truly experienced true rail, expect had buses on the m2. Thanks for helping ruin the comfortability and safety of all who use rail. Sydney metro is a dangerous disease spreading over the network. All to take away jobs of the many. Stop supporting the nail in the coffin for sydney public transport, it will just lead to more people using cars. I've done so since I can't deal with the stress of standing like sardines on a train for 40 minutes a day, and casually bumping heads and swaying into the person next to me. I truly hope the union does a strike that doesn't end, they're the only ones that will save us from Sydney metro, the only ones who don;t have their pockets filled by developers and overseas companies to make the 'metro' happen. Anything and everything must be done to save Sydney Trains, you don't seem to give 2 shits about it. All about the 'future', well guess what buddy, the greatness of the short true metro (Tallawong-Chatswood) will NOT be the same dreamy experience if we convert the lot. The success of a train line with no express services, running on non shared lines can't be compared. And I don't give 2 shits about what Jo Haylen says about it having more capacity, yeah at what cost? no ones gonna deal with the BS you dreamy metro brainwashed idiots pull out of your ass. Get a reality check.

It’s interesting how the NSW government has planned to prevent future strikes by spending like $50 billion now on driverless trains, when every other state has not only managed to avoid shutdowns, but AFAIK has done things like convert to single driver operation without guards, hence saving a fortune.

What happens?... We don't have to speculate… It actually did happen… Multiple times and the entire Sydney network came to a standstill for several days. Commuters had to hitchhike to work from outer western Sydney. It took me between 4-6 hours to get to work, and the same to get back home.

Goody the corrupt and do nothing buildling regulations should ensure huge numbers of shonky and outrageously expensive residential towers.

I feel like if your country wasn't involved with the 1950's american dream scenario, it's a lot more accepting of apartment living. In my country, everyone accepts apartments are the way forward and detached housing is reserved for villages and small towns. If you want to live anywhere close to a city, get used to apartments.

Buses to the t3 bankstown line and the metro first buses is SW1 SW2 buses metros it can be in chatswood and sydenham its basically likes the same but its blue

I Think in Epping Platform 4 is Underground Maybe…

RIVER OF DEATH

This is why it's important to get rich (if you can).

But the teens around Parr station are keeping people away from Parra

Yeah, 15-minute cities are HORRENDOUS

my municipality is less than 15 minutes💀

These folk don't need a payrise, between shift penalties, OT, allowances, etc, they're comfortable. It's those unions crying poor for themselves and needing a boost to thier pockets. Nurses though, they're the real ones in dire need to a payrise. Ambos too.

100 Billion dollars that we just gave away to off shore gas companies. we're screwed: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnaYoWt4gJp7mrc

From boomer parents who one actually grew up in Turramurra, they can't undo this mindset of anti-urbinisation or at least if high density is built not where they live. I have had to wrestle this idea, living in multiple areas where i see urban, medium to high density done well and poorly. I wrestle now where to bring my kids up, where do i really want to live, now forced by housing prices. For example, i never thought but now living in the inner west, it does really well satisfying those 6 points. But for me, way too far from the beach or mountains i use to enjoy in Wollongong. I feel the areas you mentioned once poor 100 years ago, are aome of the most rich culturally like surry hills etc. But you go to suburbs that feel like they are still stuck in the 80's or earlier. Goes to show, community is everything, even if its stubborn Boomer's 😂. You should probably go to country towns, they are forced to live rural, semi-rural, or even in town/ outta town. Everyone must come to the town once a week etc and makes the most of it. Australia has such a rich country culture.

Building only a single storey car park is also an inefficient use of the land. That car park desperately needs to be multi-storey.

Holy crap, I just realized that the Houston suburb where I live is unintentionally a 15-minute town. My job, daughter's school, shops, grocery store, tons of restaurants, bars, neighborhood parks, healthcare (general health, dental, vision, pediatrics) are all less than 1 or 2 miles from my home. But rarely does anyone walk or bike anywhere, especially in the brutally hot summer months.

By dragging Amy on this “epic” journey you have legitimised your strange adventure. But why by car when you could catch the train?I have done the trip during the steam weekend at Maitland. I enjoyed the train travel and the picturesque views from the train. The road takes short cuts and is boring. There are great pubs and country shops at Paterson and Dungog which would have made the video interesting especially in terms of architecture merit. Some places are candidates for Australia’s version of “Deliverance.”

What's worse... 2day strike or $billions wasted by having trains delivered and paid for but sitting idle for years. State governments need to buck up their industrial relations game.

I lived in a house with a large backyard as a child. Now I live in an apartment. To be honest, I think its much nicer as a child to have a backyard to play in, space to run around, space for everyone in the family to have their own private space etc... I don't mind living in an apartment as a single adult. But if I had kids I would want a house with a yard. I just think it would feel cramped in an apartment with other people and kids!

15 minute cities used to be a right wing conspiracy theory. Now 15 minute cities are real and a Good Thing.

Same old stuff... Everyday the taxpayer gets screwed from every angle.

Last time I was in parra was 1998 when I was a school kid and it was infested with teenage gangsters near the station. Not very good memories

I was born in Melbourne and moved to Sydney - I've spent about half my life in both cities and within each city moved around three or four times in both outer suburban and metro areas. I have never witnessed such obsession with the suburbs you come from as I have in Sydney. One of my colleagues from an old job lived in the Eastern suburbs and wouldn't step a foot further out west than Petersham to come to a work get-together. It is indeed a very strange phenomenon.

The unions want to run public transport 24 hrs a day? What a joke. How is that their business? They just want extra income from shiftwork etc! . Do the members even want this? Our antiquated 19th century train system isn’t up to it anyway

Sharriff, I am impressed, to know or find where you are in that short amount of time after being blind folded, even being in Sydney since 1987 and being in the public transport industry, I think I'd still be out there getting lost😂😂

This is what happens when you flirt with Labor! Always!!!

We need to outlaw unions

I hate the West but El Jannah is much much much better than Chargrill Charlie 😂

Time to bring in automation

Pushing ridiculous demands for 32% payrise over 4 years is an ABSOLUTE joke. Rail workers are already highly paid and receive 6 figure salaries. Industrial actions like this only pushes the argument or business case to introduce driverless trains as technology progresses. If there were any workers in the public sector who genuinely deserve payrises, they would be the nurses, especially compared to equivalent pay in other states, and what they went through during covid. You hear about nurses leaving their profession or looking at options interstate because of their low wages - how many train drivers are leaving their profession due to their wages not being high enough?

rare L from you, strikes are good and happen for good reason, and the default position should always be solidarity with workers. if you love public transport you should also want those operating it to be compensated fairly for their work

As much as 24/7 trains sound awesome, in Australian work and life culture...it doesn't make sense yet. We are still very programmed to be done with work at 5pm and go home to our families kind of society. We should first change the culture and make night-life less of a special occasion and more of a day to day like it is in Asian cities. What's the point of travelling at 1am when everything is closed...other than for people to get home. We should at least change the standard closing hours for ALL businesses to 8pm or 10pm before considering 24/7 operations. Australians culturally aren't there yet and not ready to let go of that lifestyle just yet...maybe in the future.

Very disappointed in this video. Clearly unresearched parroting media talking points. Sad to see from a channel I respect. The negotiation on pay hasn't even started, conditions have been the main negotiations. The union hasn't stopped any action planned. The government was the one shutting the rail network down, as they didn't want to run services overnight. They caved to the union and agreed to run 24hour services this weekend. The Sydney rail network shut down for a 19 day straight strike in the 80s.

Sorry your statement about "this has never happened before" (strike for four days), is incorrect. In 1983 there was a two week long strike regarding manning on the XPT. Until the coming of the XPT, all loco-hauled services required a driver and observer (fireman), even though steam trains had finished. Yet with the coming of the XPT, it was essentially a rail motor (DMU set), meaning it didn't require the second person. The legislation to remove the second person led to the industrial action. In about 1985, there was roughly a month long strike, literally regarding the removal of brake vans from goods trains. Until 1985, brake vans/guards vans or caboose (USA), appeared on the rear of goods trains. However, the development of improved braking systems and the BOG battery operated guard mean't that brake vans were now superfluous. However the unions sought to retain them by staging this extended strike action. The rails literally went rusty because there was no trains. Because the railway was completely united, (e.g under the State Rail Authority), no passenger or freight operated. It was an eerie experience seeing the railway so dead, SM kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIW9n5-dYr56o7c

Hey Sharath, are you able to explain what the 24 hour services thing is about? I've not seen a good explanation anywhere.

The sooner the whole system is driverless the better.

As others have pointed out, there have been protracted strikes in the distant past where trains were off for days at a time. After one strike the rails became so rusty they had to run diesel locos over them before resuming electric services - otherwise the return current via the rails may have been compromised with arcing occurring. And I remember the time when trains took everyone to work in the morning, and they pulled a strike during the day leaving everyone with no means of getting home in the evening. That was a lousy act. I recall hitching a lift home along the highway, fortunately many car drivers were very accommodating of the stranded workers trying to battle home.

UK viewer here, ngl rail strikes are more than common, it’s unusual to not have one. The workers are under appreciated while out through worse conditions, of course they won’t be paid fairly, shame it’s happening in Australia as well. I hope the workers get what they deserve and more

Another reason to be thankful for our motorways and not being totally reliant on rail.

32% over four years is CRAZY! And they accuse the government of not negotiating in good faith 😅

this guy dreams about trains lol

They’re restoring the Mittagong Loop railway line (at least up until Colo Vale). Hoping you do a video on it in the future. The line is infamously known for Big Hill cutting at 24 metres depth with the line running through the middle. Plus you have Thirlmere Railway museum nearby.

The crab in the bucket mentality of so many commenters is so disappointing to see. "Why should they get a payrise, I haven't gotten one in years!" Then it sounds like you need to join a union and improve your rights and bargaining power. Also, the government ordered the closure of services, not the union. I stand with striking workers.

I actually would have liked to see that tbh haha…. Yeah 24 hours has happened but few days is a whole different ballgame…. Yeah I’m a bit of a psycho but whatever…. And yeah happened pre 2000s, but it’s nothing compared to this due to growth

Some KZbinrs just wanna watch the world burn...

Strikes are important for industrial democracy. Don’t criticise strikes. And there have been MANY rail strikes before. It’s laughable that you don’t know that.

we had a rail strike in victoria earlier this year, but it was only for like half a day

Alright, so I've read every comment, and obviously I'm not surprised that there's a bunch of anti Union rhetoric here, it's fine, it's normal, you're all stuck in the system. You know how we get out of this mess? Joining your Union, and struggling for your own 30% pay rise over 4 years, it's minuscule. Think about how often your rent goes up, your mortgage, the price of fuel, basic food items. As another user said, the police association just got a 39% pay rise, I don't see anyone whining about that. If there was a state wide rail strike and I was supposed to catch a train to work the next day, I'd call my boss and tell them I can't make it, take it up with the government, they should have negotiated with the Rail Union. Right now, I'm talking to you specifically, use your favourite search engine, type in "join my union", go to Australian Unions, sign up! Go to work and talk to your mates about it, get them to sign up to. Get your own 39% pay rise at the next EBA negotiation. Don't be a scab, you end up all stale and puss filled, no one wants to be around you.

the Union makes us strong, don't be a scab mate