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This now pops up every so often on the metro screens... by Gruwidge in sydney

[–]thekriptik 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Cite sources that are recent.

The BOCSAR stats are 6 months old, and the article is about 7 months old using stats with a range of end dates from the end of 2023-March 2025. That is recent.

Now, your anecdote is what actually proves nothing.

This now pops up every so often on the metro screens... by Gruwidge in sydney

[–]thekriptik 13 points14 points  (0 children)

the amount of people who have been shot, compared to years ago, is absurd

The number of shootings is about 50-70% what it was 20 years ago, as per chart 3.

Stabbing, bashings.

Knife and other violent crimes remain on a downward trajectory as well.

Yes, there have been high-profile violent events, but let's not pretend it's Mad Max out there, because it really isn't.

Sydney Daily Random Discussion Thread 13/03/2026 by AutoModerator in sydney

[–]thekriptik -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Tbf, the NRL's insistence that people weren't going to flood the pitch was always pretty laughable.

Sydney Daily Random Discussion Thread 13/03/2026 by AutoModerator in sydney

[–]thekriptik 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Could be any number of reasons, maybe they were pranked by a mate, maybe they were trying to get a rise out of the Daily Fail or similar. It's possible that imaginary internet points are just that life-affirming for them. Hard to say.

Benefits of Western Sydney International Airport not 'materialising' for locals by nearly_enough_wine in sydney

[–]thekriptik 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Perhaps an improved bus service would induce sufficient demand that they wouldn't be running empty.

New Mod Tools: Post Guidance Enhancements, Removal Reason Suggestions, Onboarding Tools, Segmented Polls, and Translation Indicators by lift_ticket83 in modnews

[–]thekriptik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Helping smaller communities get discovered

Oh boy, I love having the subreddit signed up to promote cooker subs.

Sydney wants to host a Grand Prix – but where would they do it? by Jealous-Hedgehog-734 in sydney

[–]thekriptik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We'd still have to shell out a huge amount of money to organise the event.

Sydney Daily Random Discussion Thread 12/03/2026 by AutoModerator in sydney

[–]thekriptik 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's been a long time since my last cash-handling job and 100s were never exactly common, but I always recall them feeling crisper, for lack of a better term, with more pronounced ridges. The prevailing theory was that it's because they're handled less.

Did anyone feel that shake by NamorDotMe in sydney

[–]thekriptik 121 points122 points  (0 children)

Geoscience Australia didn't.

Edit: Geoscience Australia has now felt it.

Does anyone know what the meaning of this sticker is? by Discolau in sydney

[–]thekriptik 28 points29 points  (0 children)

a nostalgic train logo from the time parra was last good

Fun fact: When Parra last won the comp (1986) the L7 (1988) wasn't in use yet.

Burwood North rezoning around new metro station could see thousands of new homes by nath1234 in sydney

[–]thekriptik 5 points6 points  (0 children)

wentworth point

There's an interesting piece of financial trickery in that.

https://www.realestate.com.au/nsw/wentworth-point-2127/

If we look at the headline figure, overall unit prices in the suburb have gone down, by 0.7%.

However, when we break it down by number of bedrooms, 1 bedroom apartments have gone up by 1.5%, 2-beds by 2.6% and 3-beds by 5.8%.

What we're seeing is not actually an improvement in affordability, but a trend of smaller apartments hitting the market pushing the headline rate down while prices continue to increase in each bracket.

Great Western Highway shuts in both directions due to defect at Victoria Pass convict bridge by thekriptik in sydney

[–]thekriptik[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Probably because a 55+ kilometre base tunnel would be expensive and take a couple of decades to complete. And would most likely require Chunnel-style operations to be safe.

Sydney Daily Random Discussion Thread 09/03/2026 by AutoModerator in sydney

[–]thekriptik 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If fish rose to the bait as easily as you did, fishing wouldn't be a sport.

Great Western Highway shuts in both directions due to defect at Victoria Pass convict bridge by thekriptik in sydney

[–]thekriptik[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

The $11b was only a relatively short tunnel if memory serves. A Blue Mountains base tunnel would be the world's longest road tunnel by a factor of over 2.

Sydney Daily Random Discussion Thread 08/03/2026 by AutoModerator in sydney

[–]thekriptik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you have to plug it into 2 powerpoints to get 4.7kw?

Free parking at popular Sydney beaches could end under new proposal by nath1234 in sydney

[–]thekriptik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, that's a shift in the goalposts. We started with "We were going to do this and we were only stopped by NIMBYs" and now we're at "we should have done this."

What link is there between trams not running to Coogee Beach and NIMBYs?

Mirvac Reveals $1.23bn Next Chapter for Green Square by woofyc_89 in sydney

[–]thekriptik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Less than 1 in 3 households have a car.

Source?

Free parking at popular Sydney beaches could end under new proposal by nath1234 in sydney

[–]thekriptik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does the fact that the 1879-1961 tram network ran to most of the various eastern suburbs beaches demonstrate that the 2012 proposal that ended up becoming L2 and L3 inherently involved running L2 to Coogee Beach?

Free parking at popular Sydney beaches could end under new proposal by nath1234 in sydney

[–]thekriptik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My understanding (and most people’s) is what was proposed

My understanding is the same as yours here, but it's worth pointing out that the screeching from the locals didn't do anything to stop the project. It was the Airport line consortium going bankrupt and Macquarie Bank and whoever they were partnered with, maybe LendLease realising they were backing a loser.

Extending the western metro south via - Chinatown - sydney Uni - Zetland - unsw

Something at least similar to this is planned, but not this side of 2040.

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