Moorebank Intermodal Precinct West - Concept & Stage 1

The proposed intermodal at Moorebank suggest the movement of 1.5 million containers a year at its full capacity. This if achieved would mean that Moorebank will handle more containers per hour than Port Botany at its busiest. It also means that there will be 4109 container movements per day /171 per hour/ or one container every 2.85 minutes. Saying that most movements will two container equivalents per truck that equates to an extra 2055 trucks at a minimum every day using roads that are not designed to cope witrh this extra traffic flow.
This doesn't take into account the extra traffic coming from workers at the site.
The second concern is that this traffic is going to severly affect tesidents in the Moorebank, Liverpool, Wattle Grove, Hammondville and Holsworthy residential areas. It will also affect those people using the M5 motorway that wish to exit at the Hume Highway with trucks using the M5 verging across the M5 to either link up with the M7 or travelling further south along the M5.
It is also more likely than not that truck drivers will use Anzac Rd and Wattle Grove Drive as away around peak hour problems entering the M5 at Moorebank Ave.
If they use Anzac then the residents between Anzac and the M5 who currently risk crossing Anzac in peak periods will have little to no chance of exiting their residential area to access shopping facilities, schools and other facilities.
The proposed site is between other residential suburbs where an increase in any significant heavy vehicle movements will affect numerous other people by increased traffic, incresed noise levels, and danger to the most vunerable in our community.
The EIS is flawed in its statement that it wont affect residents or community, it is flawed in its projected noise levels, it is flawed in its projected traffic impact. It is not an industry that should be placed near any residential area

No Intermodal at Moorebank please.
I feel it will be better at Badgerys Creek

I object to the o the proposal on the grounds of increased traffic, pollution and noise in the Moorebank area.

I do not think that Moorebank is the correct location for the Intermodal. There are already many days per week where the roads are gridlocked. This occurs when there is an incident on the M5 and all of the traffic comes off the M5 and onto Nuwarra and Newbridge Roads. There is no where to go when this happens and a 10 minute drive becomes a 2 hour drive to work. An accident on either Nuwarra or Newbridge Roads and you might as well ring your boss and not go the work that day. The increase of trucks on this very busy and fragile road system is too much to consider.

I think it is a bad idea to have it because it is under cause a lot of traffic in our area.

Our organisation objects to both proposed Intermodals in this vicinity and is alarmed that their cumulative impacts have not been assessed.

In regards to this particular Moorebank Intermodal we are very concerned about the social and traffic impacts. Residents will in some instances be less than 400 metres away and this is an insufficient protective buffer from noise and emissions. We believe heavy truck movements will be in excess of an extra 8000 per day, and an additional 5000 car movements. This will have a massive gridlocking impact on south-west Sydney. We resent the dumping of this unwanted development on this neighbourhood, opposed by councils as well as residents, and its inequitable burden on local people.

Our greatest concern if for the Georges River, this development, compounding on the other intermodal, will ruin it in a fragile, impounded stretch where its low and slow flows will turn it into an industrial cesspool.

There is an alternative location, and that is near the new Sydney second airport site, at Badgery's Ck.

I am writing to ask that consideration is given to salvaging some or all of the sandstone structure of the Royal Australian Engineers Chapel and Museum currently on the site of the proposed MIC within the grounds of the Army's School of Military Engineering (SME).

The SME and the buildings mentioned above are a key part of the spiritual home of current and former members of the Royal Australian Engineers, a branch of the Australian army, which has a proud history of serving this nation in war and peace since federation. Soldiers of the corps have served in every conflict, most peacekeeping activities and in hundreds of nationbuilding activities during peacetime in Australia and overseas. The home and the heart thousands of sappers has always been in the confines of SME in Steele Barracks since the 1940s and the chapel and museum buildings are at its centre.

The Chapel has been a place of worship for many, a place where members of the Corps and their families have celebrated ANZAC and Remembrance day, numerous births, deaths and marriages for over 60 years. The museum holds thousands of documents and items reflecting the proud history of the Corps from ANZAC Cove to today.

Fortunately a new chapel and museum facilities are being provided when the SME is relocated in the near future and certain important components of the chapel and museum will be relocated such as the cross and bell.

However, the old sandstone structures are likely to be demolished unless their significance is recongnised. That significance derives from the 60 year history of the SME site. It also derives from the origin of the sandstone which was sourced from the original site of the first Holsworthy Army camp constructed during WW1 after being chosen by Field Marshal Lord Kitchener circa 1913. The camp housed thousands of soliders from all over Australia who came for training and were bound for the various theatres and battlefields of WW1. It also housed thousand of prisoners of war and other internees, including many of the survivors of the SMS Emden that was sunk by HMAS Sydney in the first great naval battle of the RAN.

Consequently these old and beautiful buildings have historical significance in their own right, and also to thousands of Australians, particularly past and present members of the Royal Australian Engineers and their families. It would seem appropriate to at least salvage the sandstone and store it at Holsworthy Army camp for potential further use in appropriate manner, at some future time.

South Western Sydney already has enough air pollution from existing infrastructure and vehicles travelling past/to/from this area. I strongly object to the inter model as it will only increase problems for this area. Badgers Creek is great for this proposal because it has plenty of land for the expansion of this freight terminal and will do well next to the new airport that is going to be built nearby. I hope you will reconsider.

I strongly object to Moorebank as the site for the Intermodal Terminal! This is a highly populated area which in no way will benefit from this. The area of Badgerys Creek is much better and closer to the proposed airport! A much better solution for everybody in Liverpool!!!

I strongly object to the Moorebank Intermodal Terminal! This is a ridiculous ideas to place a terminal in a highly populated area which in no way will benefit from this and cause an immense amount of traffic and congestion. Badgerys Creek is much better site that is close to the proposed airport! A much better solution for everybody in Liverpool!!!

I object to the Intermodal Terminal being built at Moorebank. It will turn a residential area/suburb into one that will be very congested and ruining the community it can be. The terminal should be located at Badgery's Creek where there will be more infrastructure available and would be more a logical area to establish such terminal, logistically it would be a better area.

I have major concerns regarding the current traffic around Moorebank and the expected future Intermodal traffic.
My concerns are with the way Nuwarra Rd is currently used. Nuwarra Road runs straight through Moorebank, dividing the new development of Georges Fair with the local school, Library & Community Centre and Moorebank Shops.
Nuwarra Road is residential on both sides but currently gets B double trucks and compression braking through the residential area. I believe the current amount of heavy vehicle traffic along Nuwarra Rd is excessive.
Any extra traffic resulting from an Intermodal would be unacceptable.
Nuwarra Rd currently has a 3 tonne limit at its northern end. I believe this should be extended the full length of Nuwarra Rd given that it is now residential on both sides.
I have concerns for the safety of children crossing Nuwarra Rd at Maddecks Ave - to go to Nuwarra Public School, Moorebank shops and the Library.
There are currently many trucks coming from Campbelltown and exiting the M5 at Heathcote Rd, avoiding the toll, and then travelling along Nuwarra Rd to join up with Newbridge Rd. There are a large number of truck repair / spare parts retailers on Governor Macquarie and Riverside Rd areas which contribute to this issue. This is unacceptable along residential streets like Nuwarra Rd. I believe the correct route for trucks is from the M5, along an upgraded Moorebank Ave to Newbridge Rd which is 3 lanes each way. They should not be taking a short cut from the M5 along Nuwarra Rd. A 3 tonne limit along the length of Nuwarra Road would improve it greatly.

As a resident of the South West Region of Sydney, I write to register my strong opposition to the location of the proposed intermodal freight terminal at Moorebank. I believe the logical place for the Intermodal is the new international airport your Government is building at Badgerys Creek. Here, it will be a true Intermodal for road, rail and air, run at its capacity with room for expansion (which the PAC has determined it cannot do at Moorebank), and will be profitable from its first day of operation. It will also create new jobs, growth and bring major industry to this part of South West Sydney.

I urge you to act and make the right decision for the South West Region and the Australian people - build the new intermodal at Badgerys Creek.

To whom it may concern,

I am writing to you today in regards to objecting to the Freight
Terminal in Moorebank.

My name is XXXX XXXX and I live at XXXX XXXX
Mooerbank. We live in the beautiful Georges Fair Estate.
We are new to the area and new to the Liverpool council. I pay all my
rates and taxes on time. I am married with 2 children, one 2.5 years of
age and the youngest will turn 1 in January.
We are so called living the dream. This Freight Terminal would be our
Nightmare.

I speak on behalf of my family to say we object to the governments plan
to have a Freight Terminal in our locality. We did not move into this
area to find out later, we would be subjected to 10,000 extra trucks per
day as well as 5,000 extra cars, spilling out extra pollution and noise.
It would also cause a major eyesore to our suburb.

There is already too much traffic to begin with. Every day on my commute
home I sit in congested traffic and that is just in my local area.

We do not want a Freight Terminal in Moorebank!

Regards

XXXX XXXX

The M5 motorway and surrounding roads in the South West Region are already suffering from chronic traffic congestion and this will significantly worsen with the 10,000 additional truck movements per day expected from the new Intermodal. Moorebank is no longer the right location for this and as a resident i am deeply concerned about the environmental impact.

As more and more residents move into the area, particularly with Georges fair expansion, Moorebank needs amenities of riverfront restaurants, parks, and leafy green walks along our beautiful Georges River.

I am opposed to the Freight Hub at Moorebank and would like to support the councils 'The Right Move' campaign for moving the terminal to Badgerys Creek.

Please make a logical decision and move the intermodal away from Moorebank. There are insufficient infrastructure in place to cater for the mass changes.
The area is much better served as a residential area with the great rail, road networks in place.
I would love to see the area developed for residential and the area around the Georges River opened up to cater for shops & cafes. The area would thrive.

To Whom It May Concern,

I write in opposition to the Moorebank Intermodal development proposal. While I do agree that an Intermodal is needed for Sydney, I do not agree with its current proposed position.

This position was a good idea when it was first proposed, but since then, NSW Governments have built up a high residential zone in this area and the current position is not an ideal location anymore.

I propose, as do man community leaders and other people within the area to build the Intermodal at Badgerys Creek near the new Airport.

This has many benefits, including:
* Planned Infrastructure Spending
* Closer to the proposed Airport
* Closer to M5/M7
* Land at the Moorebank Intermodal Site could be sold for housing or a Technology Park (helping pay for the Badgery Creek Infrastructure Upgrades)

Thank You

Daniel Nicholls

I believe this is the wrong location for the intermodal, it would be much better located at Badgerys Creek - plan for the future, not now!

I believe this is the wrong location for the intermodal, it would be much better located at Badgerys Creek - plan for the future, not now!