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Northern Rivers Rail Ltd are excited about the news that a potential local development includes an offer to help extend train services towards Mullumbimby.

Michael Hunter, who owns the property at 29 Buckleys Road, Tyagarah, wants to provide housing, including low cost, with a special section for women. He has a vision that is community and environment-focused. He will provide a

‘Tyagarah Sanctuary Peace Train’ station near his property for local access to the train services we are working towards providing.

If you support these initiatives please write a note of support on the Byron Shire Council website by Monday, 6 November. The link is: tinyurl.com/TyagarahHousing.

This can help to bring flood-free housing, in a beautiful environment as well as a climate-friendly train service, to the Byron Shire.

We are also holding an information evening at Bangalow Bowlo on Thursday, 16 November from 6pm. Please come along if you support trains returning.

Lydia Kindred, NRRL Secretary


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7 COMMENTS

  1. a huge housing development on seriously bushfire prone and is also land locked by flooding…and right next to important ecosystems….how is this sustainable at all just because its near a rail line ?

  2. So good that Northern Rivers Rail Ltd with Lydia Kindred and Northern Regional Railway Pty Ltd with Neale Battersby getting big housing subdivision developers into building beside the rail corridor. This is what has occurred between the Gold Coast and Beenleigh over the past 35 years and has given them a twin track electrified line with maximum speed of 160kmh.
    Developers and train lines go hand in hand

    • The plan now for the Beenleigh to Gold Coast railway is to duplicate the tracks out to four to facilitate limited stop express services on separate lines.

  3. This community vision appears to be vastly beyond the pay-scale and professional scope of optometry correction.
    Maybe there are mirages playing tricks again.

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