Good to see some common sense. He’s had some mistakes but we’ve had some good decisions from him since he took up in Transport
Really? Both names seem perfectly fine.
This just seems to be a new person-in-charge wanting to change things just because he can, or culture-war nonsense, or a bit of both.
I don’t like either - a train station should be named for the locality, not puffy symbolic reasons.
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I agree, it needs to be locational, as otherwise you might go “where’s Saunders station?” “In Saunders? Where’s that?”. The only time it shouldn’t be street or suburb should be if it is somewhere, such as Parliament Station.
I agree that Captain Saunders should be honoured in some way though.
Yes I’m ok with major landmarks being used (Southland on Melbourne’s Frankston line for example), but naming after a person is going to make wayfinding hard
I think Pitt Street is the right name for the new station at that location.
I would prefer it be named Park Street as Pitt Street is such a long street. Pitt Street runs from Broadway (near Central Station) to Circular Quay.
I agree Park Street is the best name. A big wide street which will be quite grand once it’s tidied up. Well known in the context of local landmarks (Town Hall, QVB, Hyde Park).
Pitt St extends even further south of Central (the street was cut in half when the station was built), all the way through Redfern and into Waterloo (incidentally passing only a block across from where the Waterloo metro station will be).
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There was a bruhaha with the Parramatta Light Rail stop naming a while back as well.
They renamed the old Rydalmere Station to ‘Yallamundi’ (despite the fact that it’s sited smack dab in the middle of Rydalmere and WSU Rydalmere Campus).
Also, they called a stop next to Richie Benaud Oval, ‘Benaud’. What exactly is wrong with calling it ‘Richie Benaud Oval’ or even just ‘Benaud Oval’? It’d be like calling the Moore Park tram stop ‘Moore’. It just sounds silly.
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Yes, location is best (including for visitors).
Bevan Shields finally apologised to SMH readers via his regular email on Friday, acknowledging his “stuff-up” on using the word “strike” over “shutdown”, and also expressed regret over the failure to run an immediate correction to the online news story.
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Given he refused to accept the correct when his own journo put it to him, that apology should’ve been part of his resignation.
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Driver shortages due to COVID-19 from Transperth bus operator ‘Path Transit/Keolis Downer’ resulted in most Northern suburb routes disrupted.
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In Adelaide we have a railway museum that still has a (unused) connection to the suburban network. But it’s sadly been put in the too hard basket by both the museum and the state government.
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I’d drive to Adelaide regularly if they had historic suburban train events. Back in Queensland, The Workshops Rail Museum ran Steam Train Sundays across the Brisbane rail network.
The CityCat Beenung-Urrung that was sunk at Bulimba when it was hit by a run away houseboat has been salvaged.
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The City Deal doesn’t provide any funding for Gold Coast Light Rail stage 3 extension to Burleigh Heads.
The Victorian Government announced this morning that the new station on the Belgrave / Lilydale line in Melbourne’s east would be called Union Station. It is close to Union Road and reflects the coming together of two existing stations (Surrey Hills and Mont Albert) which will both be demolished later this year.
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