Collective Exhale Detected as Commuters Cross Como Bridge, Officially ‘Home’ Even if Still 20 Minutes From Driveway

Sandy Shores | Editor-in-Chief | Sutherland Shire Gazette

12 September 2025

COMO - Sydney scientists have confirmed what Shire locals have known for decades: the precise moment a commuter’s soul re-enters their body is the instant their train touches Como Bridge.

Whether headed to Cronulla, Engadine or the noble roundabouts of Sutherland, every weary traveller is united by the ritual - turning their head toward the Georges River, spotting the sun bleeding orange over the water, and exhaling like they’ve just survived six weeks in a CBD cubicle farm.

“It’s basically a religious experience,” said one Kirrawee accountant. “I could still be another twenty minutes from my actual house, but the second I cross Como Bridge, I’m home”

Locals insist the moment is accompanied by an invisible boundary line where Sydney’s chaos dissolves into Shire smugness. “I call it the serenity checkpoint,” explained a Kareela commuter. “Beyond Como, craft beers taste colder, park runs feel shorter, and even your barista finally spells your name right.”

Meanwhile, a local train driver has quietly acknowledged that delayed trains often pause on Como Bridge deliberately. “It’s not a timetable issue,” a he admitted. “We just like to give people a moment to remember why they live there before we cancel the next service.”

Until then, Como Bridge remains the Shire’s unofficial welcome mat: part engineering feat, part group therapy session, and part smug sigh reminding the rest of Sydney that not all commutes end in despair.