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Recall North Sydney used to be dead on a weekend, guess the metro brought weekends back to life there. Got off there, had a gander and there were lots of people just having lunch and whatnot today. Toilets are nice (but for how long its will last will be another question).
@@Gary-vv5gt Yeh it might keep cranking for a while as people explore the new metro. After that it will be up to the various establishment’s to keep the punters engaged.
HW are you sure about the Bubbles coming Up from the Harbour Floor recently? I thought that was back in 2016 when they were Boring the tunnels but i never hard anything more recent than that? Anyway we now have 3 tunnels under the Harbour as the final piece of WestConnex opens later this decade (Western Harbour Tunnel)
@@hwtours I worked on Barangaroo remediation as well as Sydney Metro C&SW hence I was particularly interested as to whether there had been new instances of bubbles! By the way: Sydenham used to actually be called Marrickville station when the Illawarra line first opened before the Bankstown branch had been built. When the Bankstown line was built a few years later and they built a station in Marrickville, Sydenham got renamed accordingly so that the new station could take the name.
@@kyletopfer7818 Offending clip removed. That's cool you had a hand in it's construction. Also I didn't know about the renaming of Marrickville station. Thanks for letting me know.
@@hwtours yep i saw Barangaroo and Central from a very interesting angle with the Sandstone at brarangaroo and the way they had to smash through the already-constructed tunnel roof at Central. Was Epic.
Great video on phase 2 Metro which is a phenomenal peice of engineering no doubt about that. I can imagine that it will save quite a lot of commuting time. Mind you it seems that a fair chunk of that time saved is lost getting out of the station. Also love the rhyming slang. One you can use is have/having a butchers (as in butchers hook -look.
@@vinbar35 It’s good. Shame it wasn’t there 20 years ago. Would have received a lot more patronage. Yeh butchers hook I don’t use much. I will have to add it in with Captain Cook and the others.
Hi HW, I love your new Metro train station. It puts our train stations to shame. Too many strikes about pay and other factors have raised ticket prices. Is the new Metro prices fair or higher. I would have viewed your video, but I have very busy, but worth the wait. The rest rooms look very clean and tidy to use and the items found while digging, that were in the cabinet, very interesting. Have a good week. 🙏👍
Been binge watching videos that explore every station from Chatswood to Sydenham. (There's another great one here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Mj0Mi4FzuPs.html) I really appreciate all the content creators taking their time covering the new Metro! 👏
@@ScottyMaccas Plenty of punters out filming with me. People taking stills, big cameras, small cameras, the works. Those builders, architects, engineers did a great job. Thanks for watching. 🙏
I'm pretty impressed by pedestrian awareness of the cycle lanes especially given the fact that Sydney is a major city. If that was here, in my experience, they walk in the bicycle lanes with scant regard to cyclists. Or maybe you just caught them on a good day🤔. Thanks for another great video HW.
@@edwardjones7065 Thanks for watching. Yes you’ll enjoy the ride. You can easily tap on and off with your credit card or buy an opal card if you’re here for a while.
@@dejanblagojevic8372 Thanks yeh a trip down to Melbourne to check it out possible. I lived on St Kilda rd for a few years back in the late 90s. I know the City well.
What a delightful video, 🎉I set whatever I was doing aside for this one, as I was very curious to see all the stops on the new metro line. Must say quite impressive 👌🏾.thank you HW. Can’t wait to do this when I visit again soon🙏And it was my pleasure with the coffee, it looked tasty.
@@brenl5727 It’s another long vid. So appreciate you getting through it. Catching the metro out to Sydenham gave me the opportunity to pick and choose from all the superb coffee roasters with HQs in Marrickville. Thanks again.
@@hwtours I enjoy watching them, and if I have to make time I’ll do that. Your videos lets me feel close to beautiful Sydney and my long distance love 😁
What camera are you using? Strange rate viewing from here at 1440p60 ? I’m just about to Premiere my first vid in 4k RAW from iPhone 15 pro.. Nevermind. I just scrolled down and note the Go-Pro. 😂 Should be interesting to compare to iPhone.
@@hwtours Any trouble with Go Pro overheating? I find having a iPhone on me at all times makes great opportunity to capture stuff on the fly..Sometimes I can't get my phone out fast enough! I use to film with a high end DSLR. #not practical!
Great video, those stations are really impressive, fantastic work by all involved in this massive project. I will use the service when I visit Sydney next year, looks super handy for getting around the cbd
@@hwtours think 🤔 was 12 minutes for Chatswood to gadical. The other stations look pretty impressive as well. The options to get around town is much improved
Hi HW. The ever changing look of major cities never seems to stop. No.1 CQ is going to have some spectacular views over the harbour, at least for those who can afford it!
Thanks HW. I've done Chatswood to Tallawong. It's all very impressive. Will have to bring the oldies down from Port and have a looksee at the new section. With some of those stations it looked like they burrowed down to the earth's core! Cheers - Steve, Carole and Brian.
Great video to round up the week HW. All travel pass for less than a fiver seems great value. Noticed that you say going down George St to Circular Quay where I thought of it as up. You certainly looked to be enjoying Luna Park. Perhaps they've decided to give King Cole different colour eyes.
@@vinbar35 Yeh technically it’s up if you consider North. But you get the feeling of heading down hill as you approach the Quay. Yep Old King Cole looks evil at present.
Hey HW, nothing better than a good rail system! Over in the US it is sort of hit or miss. Your system looks well maintained and clean! Great video for those planning to take your Metro. Like how your signs say "way out" instead of "exit" .
@@TravelwithNJSteveandSue Yep it’s a good mode of transport and now it links up with several stations on the main train routes. More to come. Thanks for watching. PS: You still getting large swells from that hurricane or has it died down?
I think there might be another entrance closer to the buildings in Barangaroo but it is not going to open until the buildings and development there are closer to finished
Interesting and impressive but if I was commuting to work daily or needed to get into or out of the city in a hurry then great. Geez a bit of a mission getting to the surface at the odd stop. i’d probably stay on the surface and Cruz with the view. Great vid thanks HW, appreciated 😊P
Hi HW. The most impressive stations would be Victoria Cross with the largest station cavern (although I can't comment on the smell), and Martin Place. I don't know if you noticed, but the Metro platforms at Martin Place are 3 and 4. You can go directly to platforms 1 and 2 without having to tap off and on again. Martin Place will have even more pedestrian connectivity when Hunter St metro station opens. The Opal Gate concourse at Barangaroo also has provision (behind that wall on the left) to connect to whatever developments end up being built at Barangaroo North. Those odd buildings next to the road/cliff at Barangaroo house various services associated with the Metro station. Sorry I have been absent. You could say I have been checking out the Public Hospital System from the inside. No complaints. Even the food was better than I remember it. Internet connectivity was pretty much nonexistent though, at least in the part of the hospital where I was.
@@daveg2104 Sorry to hear you’ve been going through the wars in hospital. Wishing you a speedy recovery. Thanks for watching and thanks as always for your input.
I had a few amusements with our hospital systems, particularly the ED in general. RNSH and NBH (Northern beaches hospital), their waiting room is pretty big, substantial acute beds (around 50 beds for NBH and 30 or so? beds in RNSH) and probs around 5-10 resus rooms for both. I will say fast track is pretty flawed at NBH, as if you don't need a bed there, your often in the waiting room for hours on end. But at RNSH they used a room (probs an ex-acute room, so they have like 30 or so recliners with random guest chairs in fast track). So maybe that compensate the less acute beds for more comfort for others that don't require a bed. But also ended up in st vinnies, their waiting room was bloody tiny (but was told to wait in a tent due to fever just after lockdown and red zone after that). Heard that st vinnies have only 3 resus beds despite them copping an city and eastern suburbs load of trauma, which make northern sydney small in comparison. RPA is pretty much same story as st vinnies (i wasn't the patron by my friend was there and me being the supporter there). Its actually pretty laughable how the northern sydney ED is massive compared to the city counterpart despite city having heaps of people.
@@Gary-vv5gt I caught one of those nasty viruses going around. Though I'd be OK, but was only improving slowly. Then caught another one on top of it. I was in ED for a few hours and then they sent me to ICU, where I was for 10 days. I should have been moved to a ward after about a week, but they didn't have any vacancies. Apparently I should have been ordering more food. That would have made them happier. I didn't know that was a thing I could do until the last couple of days. Nobody told me I could do that. I can't comment on the waiting room or wards, as I didn't see them. I would hope Northern Beaches has good facilities, being a fairly new hospital.
Hello from your friends in Naples, Florida. A very nice day for a walk. We enjoyed the sights, sounds and scenery. Thanks for sharing the amazing views with us, have a great week 👍 💯 ❤
Beautiful part of Sydney. Thanks HW. Look forward to the new metro line that opened Monday from Chatswood amazing architectural design looks like something out of a sci-fi definitely a world leader I’m sure, not that I’m an expert but what I’ve seen looks fantastic. Thanks for sharing HW 😊P
@@logocafe7624 Cheers. Will pick the right day. Don’t wanna get caught up with all the train enthusiasts. No doubt a lot of them would have been haunting the line today.
A ripper walk HW; lots of ye olde worlde stuff! The John Cadman cottage is awesome. He certainly made good after first arriving as a convict. Silly duffer was transported for stealing a horse! There are also Cadman Cruises on the harbour. Did one of their dinner cruises way back in the day. Looking forward to the next vid. Cheers - Steve, Carole & Brian in Port Macquarie
@@smantle11 Thanks for adding that history in 👍. Dinner cruise hey. Haven’t been on one of those for a while. Bet they cost a fortune in this current climate. Cheers HW
Hi HW, the Rocks area was one of our favourite areas in Sydney. Our first proper view of the bridge was when we walked along George Street and down into Campbell's Cove. Why would anyone go to Sydney and get a nectar from Starbucks? The one and only time I had one of those was on our first visit to the Big Apple: never again.
@@vinbar35 Yep it’s a grand bridge. Made from British composite steel as well. The chain coffee some internationals love. Guess they don’t like taking a punt. Too bad for them they will never have that delight you get when you find a coffee shop gem.
@@hwtours I'm sure I read that Sydney Commissioned a British firm of architects to build the bridge and, to make sure it would work, the architects built a replica, as near as damnit, over the Tyne in Newcastle just on a smaller scale. Once they were ok with the result, they scaled it up and Bob's your mother's brother, you got the coat hanger.
@@vinbar35 It might be because I don’t travel over the Bridge everyday like I did back in the day. But I don’t seem to see the painters like I used to. There used to always be painters on the Bridge.
@@hwtours we had the same sort of thing with the Forth Bridge in Scotland. By the time they finished painting it, it was time to do it all again. Pretty good if you owned a paint brush factory I suppose.
Have to say that as far as museums go, I can't say I'm into art galleries as much as history or science ones: too many pretentious exhibits for me. Still I'm an art Philistine so what do I know? Halfway through the week now so hopefully get to sunday before bed.
Considering it was the middle of your winter, you had some really nice weather for the week. Looking foward to binge watching the rest of the week today.
Hi HW, Love the video. I wanted to ask if there are any parts of Sydney that hasn't changed, from your youthful days? When I was growing up in Yorkshire, places have changed with progress but you can still find that progress hasn't changed some parts of Yorkshire. Have a good weekend 🙏
Australians have been researching hypersonic scramjet technology for years now and recently have got together with the US in AUKUS to produce hypersonic missiles so some time in the near future Russia and China might get a surprise, although scramjet technology has proven difficult to apply in weapons and aircraft up to now
Cadman‘s cottage is one of the oldest buildings still standing in Sydney (but still about 20 older ones) and therefore one of the oldest in Australia. On the first painting of the harbour scene you can see it clearly in the middle of the picture but it seems to have a large building next to it that runs down to the water and looks like maybe a boathouse, so the cottage was apparently a bit closer to the waters edge in those days.
I grew up in Glebe from the 1950's and lived there to the 1990's and on recent visits it does really seem to have lost its soul from when it was a real working class suburb, If you said you grew up in Glebe there was certainly a stigma attached to it.
Another one down and nice to see the art museum from the inside. Unfortunately we don’t have many free musea here. The big ones aren’t cheap eather.great video, thanks HW 🎉
@@brenl5727 Hey Brenda fyi I accidentally mentioned you in a vid I will be releasing later today. I was supposed to say Jenny who the info was for. Apologies. HW.
Just watched this again, I love this vid as it’s seeing circular quay, gardens etc with very few people. I would love to turn back time to the 1800s and spend a day there to see how it was for the early settlers.
@@happyplace444 I’d forgotten about this vid. I was always disappointed it didn’t get more watches and likes. Based on the drawings I’ve seen of those times it was lots of cleared land near the water. Tall ships in the harbour. They say all time happens at once. If you believe that we are all in the same places on different timelines. Mind boggling.
Hey Jenny. FYI I accidentally called you Brenda in a video I will be releasing later today. But it does have some of that info on Circular Quay that you were interested in. Sorry HW.
Thank you for posting this useful walk around. I’m staying there in October and really looking forward to it. Drove through there a few years ago from Cairns en route to Daintree and vowed to return. Looks ideal and a beautiful place.
That is a wonderful video, HW. I really enjoyed it, particularly from the bike rider's perspective. Many familiar places here. It really makes me miss my home town. I pine after Sydney the way one would pine over a woman. That sounds a bit pathetic, I know. I still have your seven videos to catch up on, one a day for 7 days, which you filmed recently. Thanks for this bike riding video....really well filmed.
@@glenemma1 Yeh watched it back myself the other day with nectar in hand. Surprisingly I enjoyed it. I thought it would be too long when I first uploaded it. But it provided plenty to look at. Appreciate you getting through it. Hope you enjoy the 7 day series when you get to it. HW 🙏
