I Hate Chatswood

Where   : Chatswood Station, Sydney

When    : 9/10/07, 4-30 pm

Weapon : Sony Cybershot P72

Chatswood gives me the irrits !  The development (shown here in - many levels, horizontals, verticals and dimensions) is all around the station.

The opening of the over-capitalised, short-changed and truncated Chatswood-Epping Line (it should have included a station at Ku-ring-gai CSU Campus and go all the way to Parramatta), is scheduled for 2008.

Pigs.

In any case, Chatswood is a mess. It has no soul. It is getting worse.

Disembarkation at Chatswood, now means that after you descend from the train, there is a journey of adventure. You can  see a train stationary at platform here.

You are forced to descend a staircase to go under the track.

Then you go up the stairs into Help Street (yes, I know !). 

Then you have to walk around the site in Help Street.

After that, you now go up the stairs and then over the top of the track.

Now, you are at the point where this photograph was taken as you go down the steps and into the shopping precinct of Victoria Street, (Hay Street North as we call it). Hey, you are here. Then you are presented with a ribbon shopping strip - a series of mostly grotty unconnected precincts; yes, it's a mess.

I hate Chatswood; there are several shopping complexes, including the rather grubby and tired Lemon Grove, an even more grungey Wallace Centre - PLUS two typically lower-end Westfield meat markets called shopping centres.

However, to be fair, I do quite like the space and the quality shops in Chatswood Chase including DJs, but then I am snob.

Having got there and traversed the complicated complexes looking for the shops you need, it's then back to the snakes and ladders of Chatswood Station.  I hate Chatswood.