End nears for suburban NRL grounds

[dangerousdave]

Rail network is fine? Ever been to any major city around the world?

Cities bigger than Sydney ive been to with worse public transit:

Chicago
Los Angles
Bangkok
Manila
Jakarta
Istanbul
Delhi
Mumbai
Rio
Sao Paulo
Guadalajara
Cairo
Mexico City (but only marginally worse than Sydney's)

 

[betcats]

Public transport in LA is a myth. Cali in generall actually. To get from Venice beach to Newport beach would of been like 3 1/2 hours worth of busses. You can drive it in about an hour give or take depending on traffic.

 

[carcharias]

Cities bigger than Sydney ive been to with worse public transit:

Chicago
Los Angles
Bangkok
Manila
Jakarta
Istanbul
Delhi
Mumbai
Rio
Sao Paulo
Guadalajara
Cairo
Mexico City (but only marginally worse than Sydney's)

If you cannot afford to pay some peasent to drive you around in most of those places then you should'nt be there.

 

[The Elephant In The room]

Light rail from the CBD to UNSW (via SCG/SFS) looks like getting the green light. Will make it just that little bit easier transport wise when the NRL moves more games to one of the big stadiums.

 

[grouch]

Trains leave every half hour to get to city from Cronulla.

There's your problem. Move out of Cronulla and into civilisation

 

[dangerousdave]

If you cannot afford to pay some peasent to drive you around in most of those places then you should'nt be there.

But arent we talking about practical use of public transit for getting to sporting events? 10,000 taxis would hardly be better than cityrail at getting 30,000 people to homebush....

 

[carcharias]

But arent we talking about practical use of public transit for getting to sporting events? 10,000 taxis would hardly be better than cityrail at getting 30,000 people to homebush....

so what has that got to do with any of those places?
did you catch public transport from every one of those cities to a sports arena on game day?

 

[betcats]

so what has that got to do with any of those places?
did you catch public transport from every one of those cities to a sports arena on game day?

Its pretty f**king obvious what he is saying. Sydneys public transport, in general, is better then a lot of Major cities around the world.

It was a response to someone whinging about bad Sydneys public transport is.

 

[de$$ie]

this is bullshit! brookvale oval deserves an upgrade, give us the 1billion monopoly monies and let us build the best stadium ever in history, in history!

i am foaming at the mouth with rage

 

[dangerousdave]

so what has that got to do with any of those places?
did you catch public transport from every one of those cities to a sports arena on game day?

8/13 isn't bad

 

[betcats]

8/13 isn't bad

Really? thats pretty sick.

 

[carcharias]

Its pretty f**king obvious what he is saying. Sydneys public transport, in general, is better then a lot of Major cities around the world.

It was a response to someone whinging about bad Sydneys public transport is.

oh ffs...they are not better than Sydney in most cases.

Get a train in India...then tell me they are better than Sydney.
Try even buying a train ticket.


hahahaahaha

 

[dangerousdave]

Its pretty f**king obvious what he is saying. Sydneys public transport, in general, is better then a lot of Major cities around the world.

It was a response to someone whinging about bad Sydneys public transport is.

Exactly! its hardly as bad as people seem to think.

I spent 2 years commuting 3hrs a day on cityrail and i would find myself getting the shits about something every week at a minimum. Sydney has some huge geographical hurdles (the sheer size and low population densities) that make further services impractical. Lets not forget it is also an intercity network. Few, if any cities in the world could boast a public transit network with equivilant extremes of dungog, goulburn and nowra. As far as physical size, it would be like the new york subway going from the southern suburbs of boston to washinton dc and incorporating all of newjersey + phili + baltimore and more.

To add to the list of cities bigger than or close to the same size as sydney with worse public transit you could say.
Boston
Miami
Atlanta
Montreal (marginally smaller)
Houston
Dallas
Seattle
Pheonix

Hardly the kind of places where a peasant will drive you around all day for a dollar

 

[carcharias]

hang on

just read it again...my apologies....hahahaha
I thought you were trying to say those countires had better public transport than Sydney.

carry on

 

[Perth Red]

I am still amused people think travelling 45-60mins to get to a game is a hardship.

 

[2012....Sharks Year]

I am still amused people think travelling 45-60mins to get to a game is a hardship.

Give me a 5 minute dash to Shark park anyday over a 2 hour round trip

 

[Eddie Lab]

I am still amused people think travelling 45-60mins to get to a game is a hardship.

it's amusing for sure.

I travel an hour each way for Raiders games and I hear Cowboys fans travel a lot further then that.

 

[newman]

I am still amused people think travelling 45-60mins to get to a game is a hardship.

It is when you live within walking distance to a suburban ground.

 

[carcharias]

I am still amused people think travelling 45-60mins to get to a game is a hardship.

I just did rockdale to Engadine 1 hr.
Imagine you
Now get the family and put them in the car .
Imagine it is Friday arvo.
Now drive to the SFS or Homebush to watch a Sharks home game.
Ye reckon another 1+ hour?
now get ripped off for about 3 hours with parking food and beer.
In an empty soulless stadium.
Now drive in more bumper to bumper traffic all the way home.

 

[Prometheus]

it's amusing for sure.

I travel an hour each way for Raiders games and I hear Cowboys fans travel a lot further then that.

Cawboys fans have to travel half a day for a bottle of milk. Its hardly a fair comparison.:roll: