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3 unusual facts about Northern Suburbs


Northern Suburbs

The Northern Suburbs (also known as Central North, Inner Northwest, Macquarie District, Ryde District and Northern District) is the metropolitan area on the northern bank of the Parramatta River in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia east of West Pennant Hills and west of the Lane Cove National Park, south of Hornsby.

Landmark churches and cathedrals in the area include St Annes in Top Ryde (Australia's third oldest) and St Andrews in Eastwood.

Ryde Bridge

The Ryde Bridge, which is in fact two bridges, is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia that crosses the Parramatta River, linking the suburb of Ryde in Sydney's Northern Suburbs to the suburb of Rhodes in Sydney's Inner West.


Dennis Ferguson

In September 2009, in response to public anger at Ferguson living in the Ryde area in the Northern Suburbs region of Sydney, the Government of New South Wales under Premier Nathan Rees and the Housing Minister David Borger moved to introduce legislation to allow the government to evict child sex offenders from public housing.


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Adelaide Plains

The dark dotted areas in the background are the northern suburbs of Adelaide, corresponding to the City of Playford centred around Elizabeth and the mid-area of the Adelaide Plains are further in the background.

Agios Antonios metro station

In front of the station is Panagi Tsaldari Avenue, one of the important avenues of Peristeri, which links west Athens with Kifissou Avenue (to Piraeus harbor, southern and northern suburbs of city and National Road 1 to Lamia, Larisa, Thessaloniki, generally North Greece and Balkans) and city centre.

Athens Airport–Kiato railway

The railway from Athens Airport to Kiato is a 135-kilometre long railway line in Greece, that connects the International Airport of Athens with Kiato in the Peloponnese region, via the northern suburbs of Athens and Corinth.

Blackley Cemetery

Blackley Cemetery is a large, municipal cemetery situated within the northern suburbs of the city of Manchester, and is owned, operated and maintained by Manchester City Council.

Brighton Transport Hub

These delays occur in addition to long travel times south of Bridgewater, where the main north/south railway line follows the River Derwent through Hobart's northern suburbs, across 21 level crossings which require slow train speeds to minimize the risk of accidents.

Central Avenue

Minnesota State Highway 65 is known as Central Avenue in Minneapolis and some northern suburbs

City of Playford Library Service

The City of Playford Library Service is the public library service of the City of Playford which is located in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia.

Derwent Park Road

Derwent Park Road is a major link road that connects the Brooker Highway to the Main Road, in the northern suburbs of Hobart, Tasmania.

Division of Pearce

It is located to the east and north of Perth, taking in several rural areas in the Wheatbelt adjoining the Perth metropolitan area to the south-east, east and north-east, then sweeping around to the Indian Ocean where it includes several outer northern suburbs of the metropolitan area.

Electoral district of Kedron

Both districts were based in the northern suburbs of Brisbane and named for the suburb of Kedron.

Electoral district of Sandgate

It is located in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, covering Sandgate, Shorncliffe, Deagon, Brighton, Bracken Ridge, Fitzgibbon, and Taigum.

Electoral division of Fannie Bay

It is located in the inner northern suburbs of Darwin, with its current boundaries including the suburbs of Fannie Bay (from which it derives its name), Parap, East Point, The Narrows, The Gardens and parts of Stuart Park.

Elizabeth Street, Melbourne

The Elizabeth Street drain runs from Carlton in the north to the Yarra River in the south, carrying stormwater from the inner northern suburbs and city centre.

Elmdon, West Midlands

The northern suburbs of Solihull as far as the Coventry Road, and the entire Land Rover factory, are built on land once part of the estate.

Epinay Congress

The Epinay Congress was the third national congress of the French Socialist Party (Parti socialiste or PS), which took place on 11, 12 and 13 June 1971, in the town of Épinay-sur-Seine, in the northern suburbs of Paris.

Eslamshahr

(The old, historic name of Bahramabad is now applied only to a small northern suburbs of Eslamshahr, or the "village of Bahramabad")

Europa City

The project location was determined to be in the northern suburbs outside of Paris, in Triangle de Gonesse.

Glenorchy Football Club

New Town changed its name to Glenorchy in 1957 after absorbing the already established club Glenorchy Rovers and relocated its headquarters to KGV Oval at Glenorchy in Hobart's northern suburbs in the same year, playing its first match at the venue on 4 May 1957 against Hobart.

Hafod

Neath Road is a busy thoroughfare used by buses and cars to travelling between central Swansea and the northern suburbs in and around Morriston and Llansamlet.

Hecale

One of today's Athens northern suburbs, Ekáli, an affluent and very exclusive residential community on the western foot of Mount Penteli, is called by that name.

Hochschild Kohn's

Later expansion included stores at York Road and Belvedere Avenue in the northern suburbs of Baltimore in 1948, known as the Hochschild, Kohn Belvedere store, and at Harundale Mall south of the city.

Högna Sigurðardóttir

In 1967, together with the French architect Adrien Fainsilber, Högna Sigurðardóttir won the first prize for designing a large-scale university development at Villetaneuse in the northern suburbs of Paris.

Hutzot HaMifratz Railway Station

Hutzot HaMifratz Railway Station is a station on both the main North-South coastal line of Israel Railways (Nahariya – Haifa – Tel AvivBen-Gurion AirportBe'er Sheva Inter-City Service) and the suburban line serving Haifa's northern suburbs – The Qrayot (Haifa - Qiryat Motzkin Suburban Service), although only a third of all the Inter-City trains actually stop at the station.

Illawarra bus routes

Greens Northern Coaches operates services in the northern suburbs of Wollongong as well as the Royal National Park.

Interstate 684

The highway connects I-84 with I-287 and the Hutchinson River Parkway, primarily serving commuter traffic to and from the northern suburbs of the New York metropolitan area.

Johannesburg CBD

Many businesses and people fled the Central Business District and surrounding areas such as Braamfontein, Hillbrow, and Yeoville for more secured houses or offices in the Northern Suburbs.

KBPX-LD

The station began broadcasting in 1990 from One Shell Plaza on channel 33 under the call sign K33DB as a low-powered translator for KTFH (renamed KPXB in 1998), in order to improve KTFH's analog coverage in Houston since its full-power analog transmitter site was located in the far northern suburbs of Houston.

Kiryat Haim Railway Station

Kiryat Haim Railway Station is a station on both the main North-South coastal line of Israel Railways (Nahariya – Haifa – Tel AvivBen Gurion AirportBe'er Sheva Inter-City Service) and the suburban line serving Haifa's northern suburbs – The Kerayot (Haifa - Kiryat Motzkin Suburban Service).

Lev HaMifratz Railway Station

Lev HaMifratz Railway Station is a station on both the main North-South coastal line of Israel Railways NahariyaHaifaTel-AvivModi'in/Be'er Sheva Inter-City Service) and the suburban line serving Haifa's northern suburbs – The Krayot (Haifa - Kiryat Motzkin Suburban Service).

North Brisbane

The Norths Devils, a rugby league team representing Brisbane's northern suburbs.

Norths

North Sydney Bears, an Australian rugby league football club based in Sydney's Northern Suburbs

Norths Devils, an Australian rugby league football club based in Brisbane's Northern Suburbs

Oldfields School

The school's campus is situated in a section of the northern suburbs of Baltimore City and is located within walking distance of the Gunpowder River and the Northern Central Railroad Trail.

Parktown North

It is one of the older residential areas of the Northern Suburbs, having been created as a residential area for the poorer relatives of the Randlords who had built their mansions on Parktown Ridge during the early days of the Rand gold rush (during the 1890s).

Rail transport in Argentina

The light rail Tren de la Costa (Train of the Coast), which serves "tourist" and local commuters, runs from the northern suburbs of Buenos Aires to Tigre along the river for approximately 15 kilometres, the line connects directly to the Mitre line at Maipú–Bartolomé Mitre station in the northern suburb of Olivos for direct access to Retiro terminus in the centre of the city.

Sefyu

He comes from Aulnay-sous-Bois (“Cité des Emmaüs”), a city in the French department of Seine-Saint-Denis (Northern suburbs of Paris).

Stade de Paris

The Stade de Paris (usually called Stade Bauer) is a 8,000-capacity football (soccer) stadium in Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis in the northern suburbs of Paris.

Stalybridge railway station

The Micklehurst Loop also diverged from the original 1849 Huddersfield & Manchester main line here - it was closed in 1966, but the disused tunnel it used to pass below the town's northern suburbs can be seen alongside the original one that is still used today by trains heading to and from Yorkshire.

Union Pacific North Line

The route traverses Chicago's northern neighborhoods and its northern and far northern suburbs to Kenosha, Wisconsin, although most trains originate or terminate in Waukegan, Illinois.

United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, 2002

Incumbent Republican Congressman Johnny Isakson, elected in a 1999 special election to replace the former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, sought his third term in this highly conservative district based in the northern suburbs of Atlanta.

Urban decay

Some areas are experiencing increased drug trafficking, whilst some northern suburbs of Paris and areas like Vaulx-en-Velin are undergoing refurbishment and re-development.

Villa Torneamento

The Villa Torneamento is a historical building in Monza, northern Italy, in the Taccona Street, in the northern suburbs of the city, in the district of San Fruttuoso.