My grandmother caught the 500 series buses along Victoria Rd to Ryde, and the Top Ryde mall is opposite the former tram terminus. She also liked to shop at Gladesville and Campsie, both easily reached by bus from Drummoyne. I think she’d be gobsmacked by Campsie these days - she wouldn’t be able to decide if she was in Beirut, Seoul or Saigon.
With Roselands, I haven’t been there since I was a kid, shortly after it opened (I tend to avoid malls if possible), so I don’t know what services are running there now, but I think the trip back then involved train to Beverley Hills and a bus up King George Rd from there.
Tony G
On 20 Feb 2017, at 1:59 pm,prescottt@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:
> There are seven bus routes serving Roselands, each at typically 30 minute, no worse than 60 minute headways. A tram or train would never cover this spread:
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> http://www.punchbowlbus.com.au/pdf/networkmap.pdf
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> Although the progress to low floor buses has been minimal in Australia, most are now at least low-entry (part low floor), which means you can walk on and off with a pram or shopping trolley with completely level access.
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> Top Ryde is even more intensely served by a network of buses. Trams are better at inter-regional connections in this context.
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> Tony P
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> ---InTramsDownUnder@..., <matthew@...> wrote :
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> On 20/02/17 12:37, Tony Galloway arg@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
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> > My grandmother loved the Top Ryde shopping mall, which I think was the
> > first in Sydney, and anyone who was alive in Sydney in 1965 couldn’t
> > forget the torrent of gushing hype that announced the opening of the
> > Roselands mall, almost entirely car dependent as it's difficult to reach
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> Depends on definition of difficult. As a child my Grandmother would
> often take me to Roselands in the school holidays - by bus from Campsie.
> (I can't remember if it was train + bus or just bus).
> I'd then get a ride on the roof top garden railway.
> route to Tempe depot.
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