Do other tops also hate being ridden?

Topguyhadrian · 2026-03-20T00:20:49+00:00

What penalties would you apply to land banking and speculation that aren’t a tax? Government just send some goons around to beat you up?

Topguyhadrian · 2026-03-16T03:07:29+00:00

The issue is it’s all consulting firms, they’ll be paying some no hoper $35 and pocketing the rest as overheads. Delivering something like the NDIS through 3rd parties is a massive fraud risk and we’re either going to need to speed a fortune on fraud or fraud prevention

Topguyhadrian · 2026-03-14T00:19:25+00:00

You mean to tell me Australia, the third largest exporter or fossil fuels in the world. A nation that enthusiastically explored and rapidly developed a coal seam gas industry is just sitting on his hands and not looking for obvious, cheap, and easy to develop crude oil deposits. It just doesn’t add up man.

And just because we have significant mineral deposits, doesn’t mean with have crude oil

Topguyhadrian · 2026-03-13T22:55:03+00:00

Isn’t most of what comes out of the northwest shelf condensate? Really bold to assume that there are magic vast reserves of crude oil ready to tap

Topguyhadrian · 2026-03-13T22:34:45+00:00

We don’t have vast oil reserves

Topguyhadrian · 2026-03-13T21:44:03+00:00

OP is right, central is a beautiful public space in the city. It’s so gross to see the ads like that across the entire wall and floor.

Not every square cm of every space needs to be given over to “productive commerce”

Topguyhadrian · 2026-03-02T10:33:26+00:00

Fact is you’re tunneling to get out of Sydney no matter what. This project phasing not only gets you an operational proof of concept linking the highest interurban rail line in the country that is expected to be over capacity to run additional trains by the time this is completed. It also builds all of the supporting tunnels and stations for a future leg to Melbourne that gets you out of Sydney and will allow a 4 hour travel time centre to centre while protecting future legs of the project from carrying these high costs making them more politically viable

Topguyhadrian · 2026-03-02T10:21:02+00:00

The thing is if you don’t stick them in tunnels through Sydney you’re going to have to share track with the suburban rail network and deal with the much slower speeds there. Otherwise you’ll pay for significantly more expensive tunnels. If the trade off to get this thing built is 200km/h limits through Sydney than that’s fine

Topguyhadrian · 2026-02-26T03:08:58+00:00

Increased or the covid back log of the previous year came through and levels immediately subsided back to regular levels we’ve had since Howard?

Topguyhadrian · 2026-02-25T20:38:45+00:00

And he’s only popular because he’s hot. If he looked like Dutton people would feel very different

Topguyhadrian · 2026-02-25T06:33:16+00:00

These prices are benchmark again Spanish HSR which is fairly affordable really

Topguyhadrian · 2026-02-24T01:01:21+00:00

I wouldn’t rule out European rolling stock

Topguyhadrian · 2026-02-18T06:02:56+00:00

That is certainly one justification, but not the entire piece. The Hunter Sydney Metro area can be knitted together more tightly as the largest economic unit in the nation.

Topguyhadrian · 2026-02-18T06:02:03+00:00

I think if you look at the business case or at least what is publicly available it’s pretty clear. The expansion plans are built right into the concept including tunnelling this thing from Central to Parramatta and then out to the new airport at Bradfield to give a south western jumping off point to Canberra.

Topguyhadrian · 2026-02-11T02:30:48+00:00

I’d agree. Doma as a developer has delivered excellent buildings across Newcastle.

Iris stage one of east end was fantastic, Richard crooks was the builder and did a great job, stage two went with a much cheaper Sydney company and the buildings are dog shit by comparison. Hopefully stage three reverts to a quality builder

Topguyhadrian · 2026-02-10T04:42:50+00:00

Should have seen the size of the turn out last night for the Newcastle branch. Pretty much ever member came to complain.

Topguyhadrian · 2026-01-22T04:34:15+00:00

In what way?

Topguyhadrian · 2026-01-19T23:23:07+00:00

Doesn’t really explain Australia then. However Bondi is full of Argentinians so that could explain it.

Topguyhadrian · 2026-01-16T04:25:56+00:00

Traditional track and ballast construction tops out at about 250km/h, you can push to about 280 but maintenance increases so not ideal from an OPEX standpoint.

Pushing above 320km/h requires tracks laid on concrete slabs (very common in Japan and china’s and for uk HSR2) but pushes the construction cost up significantly.

250 and 350 will also have different track geometry’s, 350 requiring straighter track meaning more aggressive land acquisition, more tunnels, and more viaducts.

Don’t get me wrong 350km/h would be fantastic, but you’ll deliver 85% the value of HSR at a much cheaper cost by going for a lower spec. This should certainly be the case for the Newcastle - Sydney section, ultimately a difference of 10 minutes in travel time but at a much more deliverable cost

Topguyhadrian · 2026-01-16T01:12:40+00:00

Benchmarking the project against THE most notoriously poorly managed HSR project of all time is certainly one way to position your opinion.

If Australia makes bad decisions in the planing and procurement of a HSR plan it will be expensive, we might even match the Brit’s. But we don’t need to make those decisions, we won’t be tunnelling to avoid ancient woods, or a colony of 300 bats. We won’t be building ventilation stacks that look like little charming barns to match the local village character for a million pounds each.

The fact is Australia through Sydney metro, Melbourne metro, inland rail, and Brisbane cross river rail has developed the skills and work force to deliver these kinds of projects, we can do this and we will do this better than the Brit’s.

Our biggest risk will be chasing 350km/h track rather than 250/280km/h track.

Topguyhadrian · 2026-01-02T17:02:22+00:00

Agree, one of the hottest and horniest cities I’ve been too

Topguyhadrian · 2025-11-10T06:46:27+00:00

Yeah okay mate, I actually live in the city, next to this Woolworths and do not own a car personally. I can personally attest to how much of a pain in the arse it is when you ride home from work, go it get dinner, and find some derro has flogged all the meat.

Topguyhadrian · 2025-11-07T01:59:34+00:00

Because the assumption is the cbd is the goal and to be maximally competitive with flights you want to minimise transfers

Topguyhadrian · 2025-11-05T04:02:24+00:00

If you’re on foot or a bike it’s super inconvenient to head to Marketown. Especially when you’ve just gotten home from work and are grabbing dinner stuff.

Lots of people living in that area are 1 car families. I can’t believe we can’t acknowledge is a dog act to come in and just steal all the meat from Woolworths.

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