Plus, the damn noisy, smelly and smoky diesel buses which once ran the entire length of George St until the light rail project commenced construction in 2015.
@@meganpaull6140 stay home....for your own good. Sydney it's becoming a "BIG" city, full of highways, bridges, underpass with an overpass turning right and four ways each way ...driving around today is a job. Go to Alexandria and see the Soviet Union apartment blocks in grey and white boring colours
Merivale & Mr John in the basement, corner of Hunter & George streets. Best clothes in Sydney in the 60’ & 70’s. now Justin Hemmes owns half the pubs & bars in Sydney. His old man would be pleased😂
Gradually all the architectural heritage of Australia it's being either demolished or bastardized by " contemporary" architecture. In the inner city, ancient by now, houses are ",modernized" inside and outside, some of the front of the house is "left" and behind a shoe box colored grey and black, or black and white, it's built fence-to-fence with no much backyard left and the same next door and in the blocks behind the monstrosities. I remember during the bicentenary, in 1988, we were all into "colonial" colors and preserving the interior plaster works....etc. Today history means nothing ( around the world) new pragmatic generations can't give any less of a shit about Australia's heritage. Welcome dystopia. My humble workers cottage of a semi, will be demolished when we kick the bucket, and some contemporary ugliness will be built, which will be dated ten years after. Like those pink houses of the 80's and early 90's which look older and certainly uglier than any humble house in Newtown, and near suburbs. And I'm a wog ...the destroyers are mostly true Blue dyed in the wool sort of affluent Anglo Aussies....allow me to lough in Spanish ..🤣🧉
I COULD NOT AGREE MORE ! This is precisely why I can't stand the television program " Grand Designs " where magnificent structures are defaced with incongruent and tasteless additions . 😒
It's progress. The buildings you want to preserve are built on top of older buildings that weren't preserved. In the near future it will all happen again. When do you think it should stop ? Of course it's a shame, but we can't just keep saving old structures for no real reason other than sentiment. Everyone alive today will be dead in 120 years from now and the newer generations will care less and less. I think a big problem now is that the newer buildings don't have the character that we're used to and that's a change that some of us aren't ready for.
RIP … the Sanitarium Health Food Restaurant… the first 🥗 vegetarian food outlet in Sydney that served yummy sandwiches , beautiful yoghurt and honey , along with other treats also their own grocery line… happy memories glad they kept that heritage building on the corner but they knocked down the one next door that had the green louvred shutters old colonial building ,😢down below was the famous Hunts menswear…😢
My dad used to work in the former P & O building at 55 Hunter Street, which I believe has now been demolished and is being replaced by part of the new Hunter Street Metro station.
From the artists rendition the new building doesn’t seem sympathetic to the old building on the corner at all. It literally looks what it is. Two different buildings joined together, the new one reluctantly built around an old one that can’t be demolished. Yes it’s heritage, but it just looks silly jammed up next to a steel and glass modern building. It’s such a shame to see George St, once the bustling heart of the city, so dead and lifeless. It has been ruined.
Is Rosehill metro station still in consideration? Sorry if this gets asked many times but I'm just concerned they may not confirm Rosehill metro station in time before the tunnel boring machines reach where Rosehill metro station would be located and it would risk delaying the Sydney Metro West Line's opening even further just to add Rosehill metro station.
That’s just dumb. If you live in Western Sydney then you would demand more public transport as reaching the CBD is slow and tortuous. Old obsolete buildings had to be demolished to make way for the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Opera House, Darling Harbour precinct and so on. You cannot have it both ways.
Why do they have to destroy the city history, just for a metro station, do we really need it??? Sydney had trams and they ripped the tracks up, now lets put them back!!
That’s just dumb. If you live in Western Sydney then you will demand more public transport as reaching the CBD is slow and tortuous. Old obsolete buildings had to be demolished to make way for the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Opera House, Darling Harbour precinct and so on. You cannot have it both ways.
Tokyo also decommissioned their streetcar (tram) network by the 1970s. For the same reason why Sydney did so a decade earlier by the early 1960s: trams were making the roads grossly inefficient as the volume of cars rapidly increased after the war. There are only 2 remaining streetcar lines in Tokyo. These only exist as these lines have virtually an entire dedicated track corridor.
@@murraykitson1436 Avoid King St, Newtown by car at all costs. The NSW Government was totally right in the 1950s to make the hard decision to decommission the obsolete tram network. It is just not feasible for many thousands of cars to share the same stretch of road with a tram, which essentially needs its exclusive right of way to operate efficiently. And this is what the modern Sydney light rail systems were built with as their foundations when they were introduced in the 1990s, 2010s and 2020s.
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Happy New Year mate, appreciate everything you do for old Sydney and the trains
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing. George Street has certainly changed a lot since I was last there.
Not for the better
I appreciate your work and hope you keep it up. Best wishes for the new year.
George St is so much nicer since the cars were removed.
Plus, the damn noisy, smelly and smoky diesel buses which once ran the entire length of George St until the light rail project commenced construction in 2015.
They should have put the tram up Pitt Street which would have created a pedestrian mall from circular Quay to the shopping area
Wow it has changed so much I haven’t been to the city for ages
@@meganpaull6140 stay home....for your own good.
Sydney it's becoming a "BIG" city, full of highways, bridges, underpass with an overpass turning right and four ways each way ...driving around today is a job.
Go to Alexandria and see the Soviet Union apartment blocks in grey and white boring colours
RIP the great (cheap) selection of food in the Hunter Arcade food court.
Cockroach and rat infested dump.You are right, cheap. Cheap slope.
Merivale & Mr John in the basement, corner of Hunter & George streets. Best clothes in Sydney in the 60’ & 70’s. now Justin Hemmes owns half the pubs & bars in Sydney. His old man would be pleased😂
So glad they kept the OLD building cnr George and Hunter streets..
Gradually all the architectural heritage of Australia it's being either demolished or bastardized by " contemporary" architecture.
In the inner city, ancient by now, houses are ",modernized" inside and outside, some of the front of the house is "left" and behind a shoe box colored grey and black, or black and white, it's built fence-to-fence with no much backyard left and the same next door and in the blocks behind the monstrosities.
I remember during the bicentenary, in 1988, we were all into "colonial" colors and preserving the interior plaster works....etc.
Today history means nothing ( around the world) new pragmatic generations can't give any less of a shit about Australia's heritage.
Welcome dystopia.
My humble workers cottage of a semi, will be demolished when we kick the bucket, and some contemporary ugliness will be built, which will be dated ten years after.
Like those pink houses of the 80's and early 90's which look older and certainly uglier than any humble house in Newtown, and near suburbs.
And I'm a wog ...the destroyers are mostly true Blue dyed in the wool sort of affluent Anglo Aussies....allow me to lough in Spanish ..🤣🧉
I COULD NOT AGREE MORE ! This is precisely why I can't stand the television program " Grand Designs " where magnificent structures are defaced with incongruent and tasteless additions . 😒
I fully agree with you.there will be nothing heritage left in our cities.just ugly eyesores.
It's progress. The buildings you want to preserve are built on top of older buildings that weren't preserved. In the near future it will all happen again. When do you think it should stop ? Of course it's a shame, but we can't just keep saving old structures for no real reason other than sentiment. Everyone alive today will be dead in 120 years from now and the newer generations will care less and less. I think a big problem now is that the newer buildings don't have the character that we're used to and that's a change that some of us aren't ready for.
RIP … the Sanitarium Health Food Restaurant… the first 🥗 vegetarian food outlet in Sydney that served yummy sandwiches , beautiful yoghurt and honey , along with other treats also their own grocery line… happy memories glad they kept that heritage building on the corner but they knocked down the one next door that had the green louvred shutters old colonial building ,😢down below was the famous Hunts menswear…😢
My dad used to work in the former P & O building at 55 Hunter Street, which I believe has now been demolished and is being replaced by part of the new Hunter Street Metro station.
what happened to the bass urinal?
It was much nicer when it was the cbd now it's just brutal architecture. Who cares about useless light rail everywhere
This new construction is the metro, that is a driverless train system. It isn't to do with the light rail.
From the artists rendition the new building doesn’t seem sympathetic to the old building on the corner at all. It literally looks what it is. Two different buildings joined together, the new one reluctantly built around an old one that can’t be demolished. Yes it’s heritage, but it just looks silly jammed up next to a steel and glass modern building. It’s such a shame to see George St, once the bustling heart of the city, so dead and lifeless. It has been ruined.
Is this the Metropolitan Hotel from way back?
Is Rosehill metro station still in consideration? Sorry if this gets asked many times but I'm just concerned they may not confirm Rosehill metro station in time before the tunnel boring machines reach where Rosehill metro station would be located and it would risk delaying the Sydney Metro West Line's opening even further just to add Rosehill metro station.
What the hell does sydney need a metro? Look what they are destorying in the process?
That’s just dumb. If you live in Western Sydney then you would demand more public transport as reaching the CBD is slow and tortuous.
Old obsolete buildings had to be demolished to make way for the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Opera House, Darling Harbour precinct and so on. You cannot have it both ways.
Is this really progress, I really despise change and the old buildings that fall victim to it. Looks nothing like I remember it back in the 80's.
Why do they have to destroy the city history, just for a metro station, do we really need it???
Sydney had trams and they ripped the tracks up, now lets put them back!!
The metro has been a resounding success. And desperately needed in a growing city. This is Sydney CBD , not an old village in the middle of nowhere.
The metro is a driverless train system. It is different to the light rail.
That’s just dumb. If you live in Western Sydney then you will demand more public transport as reaching the CBD is slow and tortuous.
Old obsolete buildings had to be demolished to make way for the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Opera House, Darling Harbour precinct and so on. You cannot have it both ways.
Tokyo also decommissioned their streetcar (tram) network by the 1970s. For the same reason why Sydney did so a decade earlier by the early 1960s: trams were making the roads grossly inefficient as the volume of cars rapidly increased after the war.
There are only 2 remaining streetcar lines in Tokyo. These only exist as these lines have virtually an entire dedicated track corridor.
@@murraykitson1436 Avoid King St, Newtown by car at all costs.
The NSW Government was totally right in the 1950s to make the hard decision to decommission the obsolete tram network. It is just not feasible for many thousands of cars to share the same stretch of road with a tram, which essentially needs its exclusive right of way to operate efficiently.
And this is what the modern Sydney light rail systems were built with as their foundations when they were introduced in the 1990s, 2010s and 2020s.
please do some coverage of Chinatown before it all disappears!
@@seaweedy7091 What Chinatown?....have you been in jail for these last years ?....🤣🧉
@@darioburatovich2240if anything it's expanded to George St and Ultimo to Thainatown
It's not disappearing ...... it's expanding at a rapid rate.
We need a Spanian/Abandoned Oz CBD colab.
spanian can't stand being around people he doesn't know
Let's ogg
I take it the Commonwealth bank is now gone?
Is it?!
nope, the bank stays where it is
Commonwealth Bank Wynyard, Australia Square and everything north of Hunter St is unaffected by the Metro West development for obvious reasons.
@@larrylongprong5219 Look at the video footage! Commonwealth Bank Wynyard is still most certainly there for January 2025. Happy New Year.