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NSW Metropolitan Transport Plan (Feb 2010)

Premier Kristina Keneally releasing the Metropolitan Transport Plan: Connecting the City of Cities. February 21, 2010 announced: "The NSW Cabinet decided to:

• Stop work on the $5 billion Stage 1 CBD Metro;
• Reallocate resources and funding to a range of other projects and transport plans over the next 10 years;
• Move swiftly to support the tenderers for the major construction contracts affected by the decision to stop the CBD Metro – saying they would be reimbursed for reasonable costs incurred; and
• Put processes in place to assist property owners and tenants who have incurred legal, valuation and other costs relating to property acquisition."

and affecting Annandale...

• $500 million expansion of the current light rail system (Road works and infrastructure; 4.1 kilometres of light rail from Circular Quay via Barangaroo to Haymarket; and 5.6 kilometres of light rail from Lilyfield to Dulwich Hill.
• Improvements to bus services – costing $2.9 billion – which includes: Roll out of 1,000 new buses in Strategic Bus Corridors in Sydney, Newcastle,Wollongong and the Central Coast; Bus priority measures such as GPS traffic light priority; and New STA and private bus depots.
• Creation of Sydney Metropolitan Development Authority to drive future transit-oriented development and urban renewal.
• $158 million in cycleways – completing many of the city’s high priority missing links;
• More than $400 million in commuter car parks; and
• $57 million Commuter Infrastructure Fund for local transport partnerships – such as improved and easy access for people with disabilities and more awnings and shelters at rail stations;

Request for Comment

"The NSW Government is keen to hear your views and comments on the Metropolitan Transport Plan." more at www.nsw.gov.au/shapeyourstate

Comments on Transport

• "The inner west is well serviced by buses I don't need the Light Rail extension to Dulwich Hill, even though one of the proposed stations will be near me"
• Twitter: Great honesty in the new #Sydney bus route brochure. (ie. We heard yr feedback, but weren't LISTENING) #cityfail
• Twitter: #cityfail
• Twitter: #CityRail
• Twitter: sydney buses
• Sydney Lord Mayor welcomes light rail(23 Feb 2010)
• Sydney Lord Mayor Allen Taylor (1905-06 and 1909-12) "was far more interested in demolishing what he believed to be uneconomic slum areas, in building factories and warehouses in the City and in improving urban transport facilities than with housing displaced people" - The Accidental City - Planning Sydney since 1788
• Light rail would revive faded suburbs (Feb 2010)
• Another transport scheme, another dream (August 2009)
• Minister, a monkey could have 'hacked' secret transport site (February 2010)

This page www.ramin.com.au/annandale/NSW-Feb-2010-Transport-Plan.shtml Last Updated: 26 February 2010.