Crows Nest Metro
The station has entrances on Clarke Street and on the Pacific Highway. Clarke Street is usually easier for a car to pull in, so tell us which one you are using.
North Sydney Council · NSW 2065
Taxi Crows Nest: Cabs for Willoughby Road, the Metro and RNSH
Five main roads meet at the Crows Nest shops, the Metro runs underneath and the North Shore's main teaching hospital is a few blocks away. We know which corner to wait on.
Book a taxi in Crows Nest
Crows Nest is small, only a few blocks each way, but it is boxed in by big roads. The Warringah Freeway runs along its northern side and the Pacific Highway down its western edge, and the village itself sits where Willoughby Road, Falcon Street and the highway come together. A two minute trip can take ten if you end up facing the wrong way on Falcon Street.
Most of our Crows Nest bookings are short and practical: appointments at Royal North Shore, dinner on Willoughby Road, a ride from Crows Nest Metro with too much luggage to walk, or a car to North Sydney for a meeting. The longer ones are airport transfers and the occasional cruise terminal transfer to Circular Quay.
Sedans and SUVs take four passengers. Anything bigger goes in a maxi taxi seating 7 or 11, and every fare is a fixed quote with tolls and GST included.
A day of Crows Nest trips
From the first flight to the last round
Crows Nest keeps us busy at every hour, just for different reasons. This is roughly how a day goes.
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Early morning
Flights and early shifts
Before six the Warringah Freeway is clear and the airport run is at its quickest. It is also when hospital staff start and finish shifts at Royal North Shore, a few minutes away.
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Daytime
Appointments and the Metro
Outpatient visits, scans and discharges at RNSH, and people coming up from Crows Nest Metro who would rather not drag a suitcase any further. Offices in North Sydney and St Leonards book cars for visitors.
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Evening
Willoughby Road fills up
Restaurants along Willoughby Road and the pub on the Falcon Street corner get busy from about six. Parking disappears, which is when people ring for a car there and back.
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Late night
Home across the harbour
After a show in the city or a late dinner, we bring people back over the Bridge. The Harbour Tunnel sometimes closes overnight for maintenance, and your driver will already know.
Popular trips from Crows Nest
Off-peak times by road. Weekday peaks on the Warringah Freeway and Military Road can add plenty.
Call for a fixed quote| Crows Nest to | Typical time | Notes |
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| Royal North Shore Hospital | 5 to 10 min | Reserve Road, St Leonards |
| Sydney CBD | 15 to 25 min | Harbour Bridge or Tunnel, toll included |
| Sydney Airport | 30 to 40 min | Through the city and the Eastern Distributor |
| Chatswood | 10 to 15 min | North up the Pacific Highway |
| North Sydney Oval | 5 to 10 min | Miller Street, busy on game days |
| Taronga Zoo | 15 to 20 min | Military Road to Bradleys Head Road |
| Manly | 25 to 35 min | Military Road and the Spit Bridge |
Where to wait
Crows Nest pickup points
Give us one of these, or your own address, and a driver will meet you there.
Ernest Place
The green space just off Willoughby Road, beside the Crows Nest Centre at number 2. An easy landmark for a meeting point after dinner or a class.
Royal North Shore Hospital
On Reserve Road, with short-stay drop-off and pickup bays at the Main Entry and at Emergency. Name the building or ward and we come to the closest one.
Willoughby Road
Restaurants and cafes most of the way along. We meet out the front where the kerb allows, or around the corner on a side street.
The Crows Nest Hotel
On the corner of Willoughby Road and Falcon Street. Falcon Street is too busy to stop on, so we wait on Willoughby Road.
St Leonards station
On the North Shore line, beside the Forum. Handy if you are coming from Hornsby or Gordon by train.
Schools on the Pacific Highway
North Sydney Demonstration School and North Sydney Girls High both front the highway. Give us the gate and the time.
Before the Metro
A hospital, a cottage and a pyramid
Royal North Shore Hospital did not start at St Leonards. The foundation stone of a small cottage hospital was laid on Willoughby Road in 1887, and that site is now part of the Crows Nest shops. The hospital moved to its present campus in 1902 and has been growing ever since.
The suburb takes its name from Edward Wollstonecraft’s cottage, the Crow’s Nest, built on his 1821 land grant. The gates of the later Crows Nest House still stand at the Pacific Highway entrance to North Sydney Demonstration School.
Round on West Street, St Thomas Rest Park was the first burial ground on the North Shore. Alexander Berry lies there with Wollstonecraft in a pyramid-shaped tomb, and the old Sexton’s Cottage is now a small museum. It is a quiet place to visit, and we can drop you on West Street.
Maxi cabs, baby seats and wheelchair access
Hospital visits often mean a walking frame or a wheelchair, so book our wheelchair accessible vehicle ahead. We also fit baby capsules and boosters on request, and maxi cabs handle groups of up to 11.
Crows Nest to Sydney Airport
Crows Nest is one of the easier North Shore suburbs for an airport run: onto the Warringah Freeway, across the harbour and down the Eastern Distributor. Off-peak that is 30 to 40 minutes.
The catch is the morning peak, when the freeway approach to the harbour crossings backs up. We allow for it. Flying in, add your flight number and the pickup follows your real landing time. More on our Sydney Airport taxi page.
- The fixed quote already includes the harbour crossing toll and GST
- No surge pricing on a Friday evening or a public holiday
- Pay by card, Cabcharge, Apple Pay, Google Pay or cash
- Bags loaded at your door and unloaded at the terminal kerb
Questions from Crows Nest passengers
Still unsure? Call 02 7265 1227, any hour.
Ring 02 7265 1227. We take bookings around the clock for Crows Nest, St Leonards and the streets around them.
Nearby suburbs
Or browse the Lower North Shore taxi page.
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Need a taxi in Crows Nest?
Call for a car to Willoughby Road, the Metro or the hospital, with a fixed quote before you travel.