noun:
adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment)

Clean, safe, and almost always on time!

Considering the size of the Tokyo – Yokohama metropolitan area and the approx. 36 million living in this area the efficiency of trains and Shinkansens is mind boggling.

It makes me sick when I’m trying to catch a train from Martin Place and it’s 10 minutes late for no reason…

Its called climatisation.
I prob couldnt move south due to the colder winters.

I also would miss the cracking thunder storms.
More predicted from tomorrow onwards :)

You gotta love an awesome lightening show accompanied by the smell of the rain washing away the heat….

U can’t go wrong!Lol.

Plenty of suburbs near stations here in Bogantown but u have to live with the locals.LOL.

Avoid Roseghetto (as if I need to tell u after recent events)

Must admit a better choice than Blacktown and environs though.LOL.

At least the Brumby has some sort of plan…even if it isnt totally funded yet…

One problem.. Sydney/NSW the Pseudo Capital Of Australia is Broke.. Bankrupt

Realcars, It’s fantastic to simply say “move to a home near a station”, if only it were that easy – fat chance of finding a home like that for starters, and then you’ll need all the luck on earth to be able to secure the loan needed to buy the damn place in these financially-tight times. Your bank might “lol” at that small request

Andrew M, I’ve just come back from a few weeks in Sydney and I have to say the worst part about their transport system is the ticketing – it’s a nightmare. Melbourne has a far simpler and more user-friendly system, and in my opinion, one that offers far more value for money that the “every-sydney-train-station-on-the-one-machine” method of the Harbour City

Simple fact is the NSW Govt should be investing in new public transport options for the Greater Sydney region so that people all throughout Sydney and it’s surrounding suburbs have the option of Public Transport

PCR,
I agree.
Londons Public transport operates very smoothly for the volume it carries. I also found it very easy to Navigate.
I also find Melbournes Public system fairly easy and flowing to use.
And as a surprise i also found the public system in Bankok easy and flowing to use.
BUT…..
Ive never used Sydneys system to compare

In QLD they are setting up a few sattelite cities. Some already started, some have the planning approved.
I suppose we have a fair size bigger chunk of land up here though.
You still got acerage estates down there an hour from the CBD Guys??
Darn it!!!!! now Im selling it (Bangs Head)

Here’s a tip if u don’t want to be stuck in grid lock getting to work everyday buy in a suburb that has a train station.LOL.

And yes the “Shire” is the best place in Sydney because there are more decent people in the one place than any other part of Sydney plus the advantage of trains,proximity to the sea,national parks etc,etc.

I live in Bogantown but would move to the Shire in a heartbeat if I could afford too.

And yes Ray Anglo middleclass majority not a bad thing either and I am a wog just like u.LOL.

It was about respect for Shire residents homes and their surrounding environment by those visiting “the Shire”.

Also, I would hardly call the Lebanese (as a whole) a minority group in Sydney, the true minority group in all of this was in fact the small number of violent male offenders (both Australian and Lebanese). Nearly all of whom have subsequently been brought to justice by your “white supremacists” in power. Go figure.

Anyway, in reference to the article, the simple reason that Shire residents don’t pay tolls yet is because we don’t have any toll roads yet (duh!), and the simple reason is because the Shire is a “safe” political electorate.

South-West Sydney doesn’t get special treatment because they are a Labor electorate. They get special treatment because they are a “swing” electorate.

So “civilised”, its residents decided to act on their “white superiority” mentality by way of violence against minority groups. All that was missing were the white hoods.

Yeah the Shire is the place to be and the people are civilized!

The South West i.e Campbelltown and hinterland are the best located areas in Sydney only prob is there are too many ignorant Bogans.LOL.

Surely the answer is the public transport system being well and truly overhauled so that it is is touch and go whether you are better off driving or being driven (or better still the P/T system is quicker). The real economic dynamics of this are plain to see based on the above. Property values will rise in outer lying suburbs as they become more sensibly attractive.

It’s clear however that the current NSW government (and the opposition) are never going to do what is necessary, and that’s a wholesale re-design and implementation of a real public transport system which is “designed” for growth and efficiency and to make it attractive to live more than 10 km’s from where you work without being stuck in traffic. Of course then the next logical issue is that the roads don’t need to grow as much or as fast as they are pressured to now. It’s a simple change of attitude and focus, but it takes a real b*lls approach. It won’t be completely achieved in 1 parliamentary term either, so that’s a problem.

Visiting London last year (2008) I was amazed at how efficiently I travelled from an outlying suburb (Tunbridge Wells) to the CBD and around the CBD and back again on public transport in peak hour in one of the busiest cities in the world. BUT, the return train fare was over 23 pounds Stlg and that’s significant (yeah it’s a lot cheaper if you buy weekly tickets or Oyster cards etc). Get’s one thinking though, if the UK can do it, why the hell is it so hard in NSW.