🚊 Woollahra Is Getting A Train Station And Thousands Of New Homes

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
New Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. Walara train station for
many years.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Are going to be reopened as a train station.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Mensi reckons it's going to happen. Chris mens has said
it's going to happen in twenty twenty seven. So if
you go back to the seventies, the Rand government they
completed that line to Bondi Junction from the city, the
Eastern Suburbs line, and the Wallara station was always going
to be there, and then it was decided it was
going to be too expensive, so it was going to

(00:28):
cost them three point four million dollars, which is laughable now,
but that's worth a bit if these days.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
I don't know what it's well, but it's all there
and it's not going to if they can do it.
Is that they're saying for the year after next to
have it up and running.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Well, no, no, they're going to start building it in
twenty twenty seven, so oh okay, help me a bit
of mounting around. I was just reading a newspaper article
from nineteen seventy six, the Battle of Wallara, one of
Sydney's Posha suburbs. We don't need it, we don't want it,
says the Preserve Valara committee led by attractive housewif and
former antique dealer Missus and Annette Proctor and surveyor David Sulman.

(01:07):
And so there was another lady, Lady Fradden, or of
Edgecliff Road.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
She wanted it to happen. So it's been going around
for some time.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
It is. But aren't they also proposing that a chunk
of that will be used for space for housing.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah? Yeah, so they build the build it, they will.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Come, infrastructure will all go around.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
And then young families move into the area. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
I was just looking on Google Earth. There's a few
tennis courts on that train track there.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Well at least they're not racecourses because that lobby would
not let anything happen. Then what happened at rose.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Hill exactly, So good luck. What that means you? I
like new infrastructure?

Speaker 2 (01:44):
She do.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
And it's like the Alfred's Point Bridge.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
You ever gone across the Alfreds Point Bridge When they
built that back in the seventies, they put the foundations
down for the.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Future of a new bridge, So it's foresight. I love
this stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Okay, well look watch this space.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
I know you're not in my No.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Instead of well, instead of not in my backyard, it's
going to be not in my lifetime because this is
this stuff takes a lot.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
I want everything in your backyard. I'm putting an airport
in your backyard.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Happy for it.