Sydney VS Singapore: How To Name Train Stations 

Dhoby Ghaut station was not randomly named. The name derives from Hindi and refers to people doing their washing. There used to be a clear stream in the 1800s running into Sungei Bras Besah where the dhobis (washermen) used to do their laundry. There used to be ghats (steps) down to the stream before the Sungei Bras Besah was turned into a canal in the 1900s. This is a historical site and the name reflects that

A few things i would like to point out. The government has rules to naming MRT stations. Station names need to fit one of several criteria: help commuters easily identify where the station is located; illustrate the history and heritage of the station’s location; and/or reflect Singapore’s multi-racial and multi-cultural identity. Stations are not to be named after public structures, or commercial and residential developments. Dakota MRT station is named after the housing development known as Dakota Crescent developed in the late 1950s. Sixth Avenue was chosen because it was a more well-known road compared to Eng Neo Avenue or Turf Club Road (which by the way is where the *old* Turf club used to be). Tan Kah Kee got renamed after an online poll. It was supposed to be named Duchess (after the road), and cannot be named Hwa Chong. Clarke Quay MRT Station was named because it is located near Clarke Quay. Paya Lebar MRT station is named after the road Paya Lebar Road. Pioneer MRT station is named after the road Pioneer Road North. Boon Lay MRT station is named after Boon Lay Way/Jalan Boon Lay or the Boon Lay housing estate that is north of the station.

Navigating the train network in Singapore is far easier. Easy to tell which way the train is going by the signs above each door, little wait time, etc.

Redfern station isn’t in Redfern… technically. Anyone looking at the area would assume it was in the southwest corner of the suburb. And… the moment you leave the station, you’re in Redfern - no matter which exit you take. But for some reason the suburb border has a chunk cut out of the south-west, cutting out the station, and the train-line leading up to it, and absolutely nothing else. And because of that, the station is in Eveleigh.

As a fellow Sydneysider, I'd never really realised this until I travelled to other countries (including Singapore) and used their metros / rail networks and did notice how random or confusing station names can be. I don't think Singapore is too bad... try Paris or most European cities who seem so often to name their stations after obscure historical figures foreigners would probably have never heard of i.e. they usually have absolutely no geographic relation to the place whatsoever. Thanks for the video, this is the very first one from you I've watched and your others look interesting too!

I know the Singapore MRT can be confusing. Firstly, as you mentioned, Farrer Road MRT and Farrer Park MRT are similar names but they are a few kilometres away from each other, but there are the station codes for a reason - so that tourists and/or people don't get mixed up. There are also numbers to show which direction commuters can go to, reducing the chances of them getting lost. Secondly, Google Maps is not 100% accurate about where that planning area/town is, so you can't really say the MRT station is super far away from the planning area/town, another reason being that the station might be in the planning area/town, but just not wear the big name is on Google Maps. Thirdly, the government likes to name places after actions that happened to the past actions that happened frequently. For example, Dhoby Ghaut was named after the people who bathed or washed by the riverbank. Another example, the Chinese name for Chinatown MRT is 牛车水, which means "bullock cart water" and not 唐人街, which many cities name their Chinatown in Chinese. This is because the name was derived from the bullock carts used to bring water from a well. Lastly, the Singapore Government does not want a central stations where many lines stop at, like Sydney's Central, as not doing so ensures a better connectivity with other MRT lines at other stations. **This is not a hate comment or whatsoever, this comment is just mostly an explanation and/or things that can be highlighted to answer some of the problems that were said.

Singapore metro: I have confusing metro stop names Sydney light rail: Hold my beer! “Hawthorn. Marion. Arlington. ES Marks. Juniors Kingsford.”

Tallawong station was in Rouse Hill until Blacktown Council established "Tallawong" as a suburb, seemingly in an ad hoc justification for the station name. The station originally appeared on plans as "Cudgegong Road". I suppose that didn't have a nice ring to it, so they went with "Tallawong" instead, which is the name of a road a block away. Also, the upcoming Metro West line has a station planned to be named "The Bays". I'm not thrilled with that at all.

Haha, looks like you jumped right in the middle of a hornets' nest judging by some of the Singapore feedback. Nevertheless, you've covered both best practice and the dilemas of building beautifully . Thanks.

The reason why Tan Kah Kee is choosed instead of HwaChong Instituition is because there are many other schools there such as nanyang girls high ang national junior colledge. Since Tan Kah kee helped in building does schools, The station is named after him. As a 华人先贤，many people in Singapore recognise him.

I disagree. I lived in Singapore for and the names are alright. You can remember the stations instantly. If you need help, there is always the route map and the automated pa announcements on the trains to help guide you. In fact, automated route maps will display the arriving and upcoming stations.

May be because for SG people, it is easy for us to know which station is at where. We just view them as just train stations. For visitor's may be it will be hard to know where is where but, I do not think alot of visitors will go visit all this station as it is not a tourist zone. Only those that the name sounds abit different because it is most likely a tourist place. I live close to where the stations have this north, south, east, west thing, so I found it easy to know where I am going or at. As most of us, sometime tell our friends that "O we live at this north of this place"

Dhoby Ghaut Station can’t be named as Central station is because that there will be six three-line-interchanges in 2030, by the time Dhoby Ghaut won’t be the biggest station in Singapore. Other four stations are Jurong East, Choa Chu Kang, Marina Bay, Outram Park and Punggol.

10:09, just for reference, sixth avenue mrt is not actually where it is displayed on the map, it is on the other side of the road where sixth avenue is, making naming the station "Eng Neo" or "Turf Club" really stupid as you'd have to cross the road. Also "Turf Club" is already a station being planned as part of the Cross Island Line.

Just wanted to add that the Singapore station names are derived from Chinese dialects, Malay etc - reflecting Singapore’s multicultural multiethnic background

Just on your naming of stations and ones that are a bit vague. You mentioned Hawkesbury River which is at Brooklyn. I live on the Central Coast (Woy Woy Nearest Station) and i was heading to Brooklyn (had a job on there) and there was a bunch of people dressed up for the horse races. I got off at Brooklyn and so did these well dressed ladies and Gentlemen. When we got off they were looking puzzled, they were looking for signs to the Hawkesbury Races. They asked me if i knew where the races were on at and I said "that's out in the Nepean Valley, This is Brooklyn station, its named Hawkesbury River station as its at the very Mouth of the Hawkesbury river where it meets the ocean. Told them you would need to go to Richmond or Windsor and get the busses from there. They ended up going back home

Alot of Singapore's stations are quite aptly named, it just might not be ideal for tourist like yourself. E.g., I doubt there is any Singaporean that doesn't know who Tan Kah Kee for how influential he was in the country's education system and the fact NJC and Hwa Chong students take it essentially every day, and Clark Quay is the area around that portion of the river, so it refers to both sides.

Very well spoken and informative. I came from the video you did on Eastwood, big fan of how sophisticated your videos are :)

Hey, so I'm from Singapore and I really appreciate your video. Just wanted to point out that the naming conventions for some of these stations deviated from their original. For instance in places like Woodlands, that you've zoomed in, Marsiling was meant to be Woodlands West, and Admiralty as Woodlands East. Boon Lay's original name was meant to be Jurong West, and these aren't the only ones. As some pointed out, even the stations such as Tan Kah Kee was meant to be originally called Duchess. And also how Dakota was named after the Dakota roads and public housing estate. However, I agree that Farrer Road and Farrer Park are still confusing and I've had local friends who have gone to the wrong place before. With more MRT lines opening up, they couldn't keep just using unique names, and that's how the stations on Downtown Line, Circle Line onwards started having direction names included (Woodlands North, Woodlands South, Bedok North). I do agree that for the most bit, Sydney names its stations appropriately and I hope it maintains this even with the privatisation and Metro dominance. I now live in Ryde and I'm happy to share more about trains or buses as I study in Sydney now. Great video!

Thanks a trip down memory lane for my time living in Singapore. I do miss the "never needing to care about a timetable" aspect of the Singpaore MRT. I used to live at Toa Pyoh and at peak times the trains would arrive at about 90 second intervals. The longest time I ever had to wait for a train in Singapore was about 10 minutes and that was on a minor station of a minor line at about 10:00 pm.

11:27 *laughs in LA Metrolink Claremont and Montclair stations*

Dhoby Ghaut translates to "washermen's hill" in hindi. Historically, Dhoby Ghaut was used as a place of residence for washermen because of its proximity to a river, which was turned into a canal in the 1900s.

I am just surprised that you did not bring up Promenade station out of all the options you had! Lol. 😆 Where the hell is Promenade (in your video and in Singapore)?

Latin America cities often have stations named after streets or landmarks. They can also have 2 names for stations that connect two or more lines. Buenos Aires does this (e.g. Pueyrredon on line B intersects with Corrientes on line H) and also has 2 stations called Callao (pronounced Cashow) on parallel lines B & D.

By the way, there is also the new Tallawong station; formerly called Cudgerong Road during planning, it's in Rouse Hill but I believe it was only opened as Rouse Hill was too small to build new parking lots/carparks.

There's a train line in Canada that is so unpopulated that the train stations are named after the people who live there.

I was wondering why Tallawong wasn't on the list and today I discovered that Tallawong is now a suburb too.

Excellent video and I love your perspective. I'm not a Singaporean, but I've travel a lot and Singapore is my most visited city to date. I agree with some stations being named where the actual location is quite far away, but it does make me think about a similar situation here in Sydney. My Singaporean history is not perfect, but I would think the 55 planning areas would've been lesser and larger back in the day. I say this because back here in Sydney, my home station of Croydon was called 'Five Dock' a hundred years ago, but then planners quickly realised that the station itself was too far from Five Dock and so named it after the suburb it was actually in, Croydon. I reckon some stations in Singapore still retained their 'local' names because the planning areas used to be part of that area (as someone mentioned in the comments below previously, it would've illustrated the history and heritage of the station's location). Marina Bay station also makes sense; as a planned city (lol irony) the planners already had the name of the area and so the station is named as is; but I reckon they made that decision before the Marina Bay Sands was even built. I went to Singapore before MBS was built and the Marina Bay area was surely an empty lot back then lol Although, I definitely agree you need better names than 'Marina South Pier' and 'Marina South' lol Finally, fun fact, while our stations in Sydney are exactly where they are, there are still locals who do mention they need to take the train to Homebush Bay, yet in our subconscious Sydney minds, we know they are referring to Olympic Park station because before the Olympic Park name, it was really Homebush Bay lol

By the way, Redfern Station is not in Redfern, but in Eveleigh.

If only Clyburn Station still existed :) A railway employee only station between Clyde and Auburn and it was seemingly named by mashing the two suburb names together :)

A super confusing station name in the greater sydney train network is Shellharbour junction which is several kilometers away from the Shellharbour town Center which absolutely no one wants to walk that far

It is common in the United States to name stations after nearby streets. This can cause confusion when different lines have stations with the same name. For instance, in New York there are five different stations named 23rd Street, none of which interchange with each other. Similarly Chicago has five stations named Western Avenue, including two that are on different branches of the same line.

I would also say that St James isn't a great station name, since St James church isn't a super prominent or well known landmark in my experience. St Mary's might be a better name since St Marys cathedral is a much bigger landmark that's also close by. Honestly St James and Museum could just be called Hyde Park North and South. Since they both have multiple entrances and are close together naming them after landmarks gets confusing since any landmark is either only close to one of the entrances, or is far enough away that it could apply to both stations!

There are other systems that work too, despite following none of those rules. Paris often uses cross streets (Reamur-Sebastopol),which is in the Marais (not a station name). The largest ststion in the Marais, if not Paris, is Chatelet-Les Halles, and there is also Chatelet, and Les Halles stations, which also join Chatelet-Les-Halles underground for interchange. My favourite is Jacques Bonsergent, named for a WW2 victim. He was both both born and killed far from where the ststion lies. None of this confuses locals.

I agree. When I visited Singapore, I found the train station naming confusing. I did get off at the wrong station )central) thinking I was in the heart of the city. I had to walk a fair to get to the heart of the city. I find Sydney train system still superior. For example, no matter when I caught the train, it stopped at every station. Things might face changed as this was back in 2012

Nice work BB, you are picking some interesting topics. I'm going to fess up and admit I once ended up at Porte de Versailles on the Paris metro even though I'd been to the actual correct location for Louis' old house being Chateau rive Gauche before. Yeah, anyway. Then of course you have the ease of navigating NYC, though we could also say maybe a little boring nomenclature. One of the toughest systems I came across was in Budapest. Ok it's a lot easier now using apps, but back in the 'old' days just so hard trying to memorise station names with so many consonants and so few vowels. Keep up the good work. Of course closer to home here in Syd we still have 'Central' station. Yeah, I pity the tourists, though the place itself is about to get better. One really weird station name you might be interested in is the old 'Omega' station now disused which was between Kiama and Gerringong on the NSW South Coast. Trains used to actually stop there in the '70s. I recall still seeing the station and sign through to the late '80s. No idea why the called it that. Maybe the last place you'd want to go if you were Greek? 😆

Naming name sense as a visitor to Singapore and was so easy to get around. Have you touched on the fact the "T" lines in the Sydney map are terrible. That is more confusing than names for sure

Flemington is named after Flemington Markets which is where we went before supermarkets. I'm not sure it exists now, but it shows the risk of naming things after landmarks. London has several oddities like that, like Blackfriars, not many of those after the schism.

the Farrer Park one is especially confusing seeing that there are signs at Farrer Road telling you that Farrer Park is in fact elsewhere though I'm pretty sure Google was wrong for places like Boon Lay or Pioneer

Dhoby Ghaut is named that as it is where the Dhobys washed clothing but they lost jobs during ww2

Just a comment. The National Museum of Australia (or Australian National Museum as you mistakenly called the Australian Museum) is located in Canberra. but thanks for your interesting and well researched vids!

It’s called Bayfront because Marina Bay Sands hotel is called Bayfront Hotel, which is why they named it that.

Esplanade - I’ll give that to you. Dakota - everyone knows that place as Dakota or Old Airport Road. Downtown - but it IS the new financial centre. Sixth Avenue - everyone knows that place as Sixth Avenue. It’s an iconic road and a trunk connection between Bukit Timah and Holland Road. Tan Kah Kee - yes you can’t call it Hwa Chong MRT. Kranji - the namesake comes from the Kranji Turfclub. If you really want to go into semantics, the place you called as Kranji estate is actually the Sungei Kadut industrial estate with its own reserved station called “Sungei Kadut”. Clarke Quay station is situated beside the Clarke Quay area. Like just a hop skip and throw away from Clarke Quay. Paya Lebar station is located exactly where 21st century Paya Lebar currently is. The area you pointed out is the Paya Lebar Airbase which is off limits to the public. My point here is that conventions of nomenclature differ from place to place. Your “3 rules” may apply very well to one country, but fall apart in another. You must remember that Singapore’s MRT system was built in conjunction with future plans for the city, and not built to connect existing parts of the city. The station names are an extension of the new townships which will be built around the station. A fine example of this “naming appropriation” is the Choa Chu Kang estate which is actually not located at the historical Choa Chu Kang kampong. That’s where most today would call it, Lim Chu Kang. For stations built in existing townships before the 1980s, you’d find that most of them comply to your hard and fast rules - such as Queenstown, Tiong Bahru, Clementi, Eunos, Bedok, Ang Mo Kio, Yishun, etc.

Just wonder, where are you from?

i find this a little inaccurate. Singapore is good at naming things with numbers. all stations have number codes, and all exits have numbers, helping non english speaking tourists. in the age of app based way finding telling someone to get off at NE21 on an app is easier for most people than something else. As a londoner i’d argue that we actually do a lot worse. now this is largely due to the systems age/railway politics/decentralised development, however we don’t use any easy means of fixing these old mistakes like singapore.

U still know that Singapore mrt has different exits rite?

What suburb is Bondi Junction station in? Last I checked, it’s in Waverley.

MacArthur is named that Becuase that is the region of Campbelltown and MACARTHUR square is next to it

What about the former Tajong Pagar KTM railway terminus?

There's a station in Brisbane call bray Park but it isn't in bray Park it's in the suburb of strathpine but bray Park is actually a couple hundred metres north of bray Park

Yea. But its still not as confusing as the Transjakarta bus map in Jakarta, Indonesia tho.

Is there a town called Zig Zag? What at High Street station in the Hunter Valley?

There is also St Mary’s Station, in North St Marys

Macdonaldtown used to be in Macdonaldtown. They renamed the suburb but never renamed the station. Bad history behind it.

NorWest Metro Station named after NorBrick Brickworks and NorWest Business Park is the cultural death of Historic Baulkham or Balcombe Hills

Love the video, love the logic, love the Singapore MRT. I have been using the Singapore MRT since 1988 and up to as recently as this week.

“Train stations have been around as long as trains have been running” 😂

Can anyone elaborate further on why Tan Kah Kee MRT can't be named Hwa Chong MRT?

They should have never renamed the lines. It was much easier before. Northshore meant it goes on Northshore. What does T1 even mean?

When public transport is as standard as it is in Singapore, the station names become geographic identifiers in and of themselves.

Other than pronouncing some of the station names... (Circular Quay, pronounced as circular key, or leichhardt as likeheart...right?), or confusing names (Eastwood vs Epping) I've had no issues with the names as a newcomer to Sydney. Didn't think twice whether they were named after landmarks or whatever either. If you want a crazy one, look at Seoul's. Some station names append some business name, due to sponsorship / extra revenue... Or translating the Korean station names to English, confusing Korean / English speakers when talking to each other.

understandable this video was made before end 2022, but... there's THREE stations with 3 lines intersecting each other, dhoby ghaut, marina bay and outram park. are they all equally significant? no. also you claim dhoby ghaut is the "hub" of the radial system. wrong, the actual "CBD" is more centered upon the city hall and raffles place stations, which were actually planned to be given the name "central" back when they were planned in the 1980s. line network density does not correlate to actual land use significance, please recognise this...

Downtown mrt was put there when it was literally downtown. No marina bay or anything

allawah being in hurstville moment if youre really going into technicalities

As a local Singapore Resident maybe you were a bit too harsh but i do respect that by a inch firstly Trian stations is more confusing like Example Farrer Park and Farrer Road the reason why it's named like this it's named by the same person something something Farrer that's why Train numbers exist and dhoby Ghaut aint named randomly it's named after the town named Dhobi but renamed to Dhoby Ghaut however i still think Syndey is good transport but regardless they kinda need to progress a bit by 2013 No Hate just ponting out

Meanwhile in America: 3rd street east 3rd street 3rd street west Interstate Highway 290 Union Station (5 blocks away) [insert suburb] transit center

I remember getting off at Marina Bay Station to see the hotel just to be so goddamn confused because I wasn't paying attention to the signs

Good video, But I'm going to have to defend Hawksbury River, as it services Brooklyn & Danger island, (danger island beinf the one of the only populated island in the river). growing up in Turrumurra my high school used to have kids coming from Danger island and Brooklyn, and as it's at the far East of Brooklyn it dosnt really serve Brooklyn all to well.

Just like how a non singaporean explaining stuff that singaporean know more

You shouldn’t have mentioned the 8th line as a metro line because it isn’t a metro line. They just use that word as a proper noun for future lines as a union busting exercise. By claiming the new lines are a different network, called the “Metro” they’re not bound by all the agreements Cityrail has made with the rail unions. That’s the only reason for the name. In fact they spent like a billion making the former Chatswood Epping Cityrail line incompatible to Cityrail trains, height wise, before transferring it to the Metro, to make sure no future Labour govt would consider running city rail trains on it in the future; as both use the same electrical settings & rail gauge, they use a different train gauge.

What about stratfield station it's in 2 suburbs stratfield and concord

I want to think that New York’s subway has the WORST naming convention, as it is only prioritises street names rather than local landmarks, especially when you think that there are multiple stations of the same name (Canal st, canal st, canal st, canal st). Even though they also add landmarks into it, they always go by , which is pretty frustrating. Btw I’m singaporean and I’ve never visited NYC, only seen it from other metro videos. I do agree that there are some station naming in Singapore in this video are awful, but as the other commenters have pointed out, history and Singapore’s culture is considered in the station naming.

Pity the authorities naming the new Metro station in Pitt Street, Sydney (just a block from Town hall), didn’t watch this video before deciding to name it Saunders (after a person, not a location, landmark or suburb). I am not looking forward to the confusion that this will cause. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Mac Ritchie is named after some westener

Hawkesbury River is in the township of Hawkesbury River; not Brooklyn. Brooklyn is a few km back up the road.

And who are you lol? Singapore did not follow your First, second, third rule? Pity on you mate :)

Can't fault you as you're viewing it from a visitor's perspective and using current view, so some Singaporean names will look illogical. Granted, it's a rant video, and a little more research can answer some of the confusion that you have and corrected the faulty assumptions you made. But It's still worth to reflect if the Singaporean naming rules can be relooked. Do bear in mind that Singapore changes more rapidly. In 50 years, Esplanade Theatres might not be around anymore; Hwa Chong may have moved elsewhere. The use of historical names is less of an issue. More problematic is the names for places that previously didn't exist -- created by some university graduates in an office. Singapore government used to confuse people with parking coupons; now they do that with MRT names! *Try searching for a movie clip on "parking coupon conspiracy Singapore" if you want to know what this means.

If only Sydney roads were signposted more sensibly rather than a driver's nightmare.

Sydney get's a point from me for having a station named "Emu Plains"

I'd still rather have the Singapore rail network over our Sydney network which will take 50 years to catch-up

Singapore has nothing on Mexico City (CDMX)... CDMX names it's metro stations after famous Mexicans, Historical Places and Events. You can imagine how confusing this is to the non-Spanish speaking tourist. Still I love CDMX.

Marina Bay MRT --> Marina Central MRT Marina South MRT --> Marina Mall South MRT Farrer Road MRT --> Farrer Gallop MRT Farrer Park MRT -> Farrer Park East MRT Clarke Quay MRT --> Clarke Quay South MRT Paya Lebar MRT --> Paya Lebar Sims MRT Pioneer MRT --> Pioneer North MRT Boon Lay MTR --> Boon Lay Interchange MRT You're welcome Singapore :)

It’s pronounced be-dok. Literally a K in there

Singaporean (me): rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRrrrRRrrRRRrRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!! (angry)

Sydney's transit is probably one of the most convenient and has the best transit system in the world

Singapore has by far the better infrastructure planning system than we do. They have always had to deal with smaller area and as a result have become much smarter. When a new area is identified for development everything is done in accordance with their Constitution and politicians don't get to play God and big note themselves. All necessary infrastructure is included.

9:50 I think Singapore ran out of names when they named Downtown station, since its in land that's reclaimed only within the last 50 years. I also think that the Downtown MRT Line that serves it is in turn named after that station. Alternatively I think the station could've been named after Clifford Pier to the north, & its MRT line as the Bukit Line, since it also served Bukit Panjang, Bukit Timah & Kaki Bukit 12:45 I remember _Dhoby Ghaut_ means "washing place" in Hindi, & there used to be many Indian laundrymen operating in that area previously On a side note I would've renamed the upcoming Choa Chu Kang W station _Lam San_ as its a more unique name also given to a nearby expressway flyover, & I think this name came from a former road or village (before that area was part reclaimed by forest & part replaced by higher-density public housing suburbs. Renaming the station as such would help protect the name from being forgotten in history). Same goes for other stations like Tampines W -> _Bumbun_ , Tampines N -> _Hun Yeang_ , Expo -> _Gulega_ , Admiralty -> _Mok Peng Hiang_ (I got the former roads & villages' names from here: www.onemap.gov.sg/hm/ & mapcarta.com) On the bright side, such names have been preserved in LRT stations' names e.g. _Cheng Lim_ There're also other stations I'd think of renaming so as to better publicise names that're still in use but more obscure e.g. Serangoon N -> _Hwi Yoh_ , Braddell -> _Boon Teck_ , Lakeside -> _Lanchar _ E

This is a really good video man and I’m surprised you dont have more views and subscribers! Just a heads up you might be getting some views and traffic from angry racist white New Zealanders who are currently upset that Māori place names are being used for new train stations. You don’t deserve that and my condolences in advance

i would like to know who actually takes the piss with the occasionally "nonsensical" naming of the mrt

It's called Olympic Park only because it's better to be simplified

Its only recently that Sydney has tried to erase Kings Cross and make it all Potts Point to make it more desirable as they redevelop Kings Cross.

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad

Would much rather have more frequent trains with poorly named stations, than well-names stations with 15 minute frequency in peak hour. #justsaying

Quite a lazy video. The stations are named based on the surrounding area and it's history, and definitely not based on any private establishments in the area i.e. Esplanade > Esplanade Theatres, Marina Bay > Marina Bay Sands etc.

The difference is that you can get off a train in Singapore with a very high likelihood of making it to your destination without being assaulted. Even Bangkok feels safer at midnight than Sydney - as much as I loved growing up in a city with so much to do, the idiot brigade ruined a great city.

Stop calling my City worse

*BORING!* 🙂

Dhoby Ghat has historical relevance to the area; so for local, they do mean something; check out the wikipedia entry for the name en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhoby_Ghaut_MRT_station#Location_and_name

The naming of stations in Sydney has just (November 2022) reached the last straw in stupidity. The former railway station at Rydalmere has been re-named "Yallamundi" as the station has been converted for use by light rail vehicles, starting in 2023/4. 1 - The name is misleading, confusing, time-wasting, and totally useless for way-finding purposes, the primary requirement, surely, of any place name. 2 - There are already myriad aboriginal place names in NSW, satisfactorily referencing the state's aboriginal heritage. 3 - My computer spell-check doesn't like it which wastes my time. 4 - I assume the new name does not appear on any historical maps or associated documents, which just makes research of any kind more difficult. 5 - ANY place name which uses double letters (ll, in this case) invites entry errors when using today's electronic devices - more time wasting! 6 - The Geographical Names Board is responsible for the new name. It needs to be held responsible for its failures and its arrogance. It doesn't even know where the station is, referring to the location of the adjacent university as being in "Parramatta South"! Complaints to the GNB can be made to - SS-GNB@customerservice.nsw.gov.au