I object to the WHT project for the following reasons. My objections and the rationale for them are listed under category of issue below:

Traffic
Reduced access points to/from the local area to the Warringah Freeway from both Ernest and Falcon St / Military Rd.
Local traffic will be adversely affected by the hundreds of truck movements each day during the construction phase.
Local parking will be eaten up each day by construction workers parking in the surrounding area.
North Sydney CBD intersections will have extended periods of gridlock in peak hours with intersections rated F (Fail) in the RMS own report.
The rerouting of B Line buses off the Warringah Freeway at Kirribillli to North Sydney Station, Victoria Cross Station, up Miller St to Falcon St and then Military Rd will cause massive traffic chaos in the North Sydney area. 

Pollution
With two exhaust stacks in this project (one at each end of the tunnel), the Northern Stack will be situated on or around the Warringah Freeway. This stretch of road already emits a disproportionate amount of vehicle emissions into the local area due to the volume of traffic daily. With the stack adding to that particulate emission level in the area it becomes completely unacceptable especially with schools in such close proximity.
The stacks are unfiltered. This is not worlds best practice. They need to be filtered to ensure the local community is not subject to undue levels of pollution via particulate matter.
The stacks are proposed to be 30m High. This is the equivalent of a ten story building and would be visual pollution.
Machinery sheds in Cammeray Golf Course will be above ground and will be visual pollution and add unacceptable noise pollution to the local area.

Green Space
There will be significant loss of green space in an area that already has low levels of open space for residents.
Cammeray Golf Course is will lose a significant piece of open space for machinery sheds. Why not locate these underground and maintain the open space above?
The Lake on the golf course which is part of a Council recycling initiative will be lost.
Tree canopy in any green space affected will be lost.

Mary-Jane Morgan
9 Neridah Street
Chatswood NSW 2067

Re: Western Harbour Tunnel EIS

I object to the WESTERN HARBOUR TUNNEL.
The following explores a few of my concerns. By introduction a summary: By releasing separately, EIS’s on the Western Harbour Tunnel & the Beaches Link Tunnel confuses the issues. The WHT EIS is a complex 9000-page document and requires considerable expertise to analyse. North Sydney is the LARGEST EDUCATION DISTRICT in Australia, I have grave concerns for the effects on the children attending these preschools, schools & colleges. Problems of unfiltered tunnels are not resolved. Does another road toll project stack up – NO! As traffic engineers will report over and over again, more roads equal more cars equal more congestion. Therefore, I recommend that there needs to be a proper analysis of PUBLIC transport verses potential vehicle use before there is any more work on the WHT & BLT.
1. The separately released EIS’s on the Western Harbour Tunnel & the Beaches Link Tunnel confuses the issues. Effectively both WHT and BLT are arguably for the benefit of the Inner West, Seaforth, Balgowlah and beyond to the northern beaches. However, the great detriment will be to the suburbs of Cammeray, North Sydney, Northbridge, Willoughby and Rozelle & Lilyfield. And this does not mention or consider the effects of the thousands of daily truck movements through our suburbs removing the excavated, probably toxic, soil from the tunnels during the five-year building process. I do not see how the project meets the Greater City Commission Objectives. Access to the Harbour Bridge is difficult and complex to understand and inadequately covered in the WHT EIS. As I read the EIS, there will only be one way to move from Neutral Bay to North Sydney, Crow’s Nest & Naremburn. Instead of the current three crossings at Berry St, Miller St and Falcon Street, there will only be Falcon St. What sort of congestion will this create? I cannot see the benefits for Chatswood, North Sydney and Macquarie Park, which are presently well served with good public transport. I cannot see the advantage or justification for increasing and speeding up freight movements (Western Harbour Tunnel & Warringah Freeway: Scoping Report, Oct 2017).
2. The WHT EIS is a complex 9000-page document and will take more than 9 weeks to fathom to non-engineers with limited knowledge of transport issues. Thank you for the short extension. This objection probably covers only some of the issues raised in such a multifaceted document. As I read the EIS, it appears, the devil is in the appendices. The WHT EIS does NOT appear to give a proper account about the local and permanent impact the WHT & BLT will have on my local traffic area, for example, we make a twice daily vehicle movement from Roseville &/or Chatswood to Naremburn, there will be an implosion of traffic congestion through this area. Other issues arise, for instance, I cannot see the justification for keeping the sediment report ‘commercial and in confidence’ unless you have already discovered the degree of toxicity of the western harbour seabed. As I often feel with the consultation process, the project managers have decided what they are proceeding with, regardless of public opinion. A complex EIS just means the public shake their heads and say: ’This is too hard’. I sense this current government have made up their minds. I reiterate: YOU ARE NOT LISTENING to your constituents, GLADYS.
3. And we ALL know how this government values education, perhaps, more than any other issue. North Sydney is the LARGEST EDUCATION DISTRICT in Australia, I have grave concerns for the effects on the children attending these preschools (including our own granddaughter) schools & colleges. This project creates a further loss of 7.29 hectares of green space (WHT EIS, Chapter 19, Table 19-12) and over 600 trees will go (Appendix W-17). Trees and open space are essential for healthy, positive growth and are an absolute necessity in the benefits to the diverse learning styles of children. Yet another detail, arising from the appendices, is the projected 480 daily movements of diesel fuelled trucks passing Cammeray Public School during the build process, just to name one issue affecting the children of the area.
4. Problems of more unfiltered tunnels are not resolved. In Sydney 800 people die every year of air pollution (Medical Oncologist, Dr Jonathon Page, 12 Feb 2020). This project will release an additional 1,035,968 CO2e tonnes per year (Appendix X, Table 3-26). On top of our polluted air from our extended bush fire periods, how many more children and adults do you want to die annually from asthma unnecessarily? All because you think the State Infrastructure will benefit from more vehicles on yet another tollway. I do not think you are aware of the complex medical implications for children and residents, in the effected suburbs, let alone the tunnellers. Note also my concerns about toxic soils the tunnellers are involved in removing.
5. Another road toll project does not stack up! Press releases indicate the M2 has gone broke, the Lane Cove Tunnel went broke and the Trans Urban was under costed. Like every transport project of this Liberal-Coalition Government, the risk assessment is totally inadequate. I OBJECT TO PAYING MORE ROAD TOLLS and it appears this project will introduce bridge tolls both ways (again) to part fund the Northern Beaches Link. Have you asked all the tradies who drive to yours and other sites what cost the road tolls will add to their weekly income?
6. There needs to be a proper analysis of PUBLIC transport verses potential vehicle use. Where is the indicators of the success of the recently implemented public transport system of the B-Line Buses? Have you analysed the demographic of under-40-year-olds that are far greater uses of public transport than their predecessors? I have concerns that your WHT EIS has included out of date, 2016, traffic modelling in its 2037 projections. I also observe that already this year, the Premier has attended two funerals of four children caused by a private vehicle. This project just puts more cars on the road to run into innocent children and parents enjoying a social engagement. I remember the 1950’s, Sydney had a magnificent tram system, one of most extensive in the southern hemisphere. It provided an excellent public transport network. Focus on public transport if you insist upon building a poorly conceived, environmentally unsound tunnel across Sydney Harbour. It is not too late to STOP THE TUNNELS for vehicles.
Yours sincerely,

Mary-Jane Morgan

This is another poorly planned and conceived massive infrastructure project based on assumptions (at best). Nobody has asked for this project. Public transport alternatives not considered. The Westconnex was the opening punch that has the community on its knees, and now the Western Harbour Tunnel is the knockout blow that will destroy us. I honestly don't know how you sleep at night ruining the environment and peoples lives for no proven benefit. My objections are below:

Impacts at Victoria Rd, Rozelle construction site
The former Balmain Leagues Club site will be used as a tunnel excavation site. Construction at this site will place the community under unacceptable pressure due to:
● Excessive construction noise 208 homes will be impacted by noise including 27 homes which will be ‘highly noise affected’ by rock-hammering during site establishment. In addition, 210 properties will be impacted by noise at night. Excessive noise can cause stress, impact sleep and reduce quality of life while ongoing noise can seriously impact people’s health. Extensive noise monitoring and noise mitigation should be required at all impacted homes.

Increased truck movements
The Project will generate 420 heavy vehicle movements and 230 light vehicle movements per day at the Victoria Rd, Rozelle site which is already subject to capacity traffic movements at both Darling St and Victoria Road. Increased traffic on local roads and truck stack parking decreases existing residential amenity and lessens land value.

Construction workers taking on-street parking and truck stack parking
Local experience with WestConnex demonstrates that despite efforts by the contractor to bus in workers or encourage public transport usage, workers suck up on-street parking around major construction sites. The contractor should be required to provide parking for 100% of workers on site to protect resident amenity


Impacts at White Bay construction and sediment treatment site
White Bay will be used to construct and transport immersed tunnel tubes as well as for the treatment and transfer of sediment and spoil dredged from the harbour floor. The site will also be used for worker parking for other construction sites like Rozelle Rail Yards and Yurulbin Point. Work at this site will place the community under unacceptable pressure due to:
● Possible health risks Dredged sediments excavated from White Bay and from the immersion tube tunnel (from Birchgrove to Waverton) contain the toxic contaminants including dioxins, tributyl tin, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, and heavy metals. While the EIS provides the volumes of sediment that will be dredged, it does not provide the concentrations of these compounds meaning that the risk to human health and to the marine ecosystem of Sydney Harbour cannot be adequately assessed. The dioxins are of special concern because they are the contaminants that led to prohibition and limits of fishing in Sydney Harbour west of the Harbour Bridge. Tributyl tin is especially toxic to marine life and was widely used to prevent growth on the hulls of vessels until banned from use.
● Unacceptable odour impacts The EIS does not adequately address odour impacts which will occur during the transport and processing of toxic dredged materials at White Bay and for the immersed tube tunnel. The EIS states that odour impacts will be minimal because materials will be wet and lists no significant measures to mitigate the impact on residents. Sediments in Sydney Harbour and estuaries are known to be odorous and excavated sediments will likely require treatment.
● Excessive noise and vibrations The EIS lists 92 properties that will be impacted by noise with five properties to be impacted by noise at night. These figures seem to refer to entire stratas rather than individual homes which is misleading. Excessive noise can cause stress, impact sleep and reduce quality of life while ongoing noise can seriously impact people’s health. Extensive noise monitoring and noise mitigation should be installed in all impacted homes.


Impacts at Yurulbin Point cofferdam Yurulbin Point will be used as a tunnel excavation site. Temporary wharves will be constructed as well as land based construction activities on Yurulbin Park. Construction at this site will place the community under unacceptable pressure due to:
● Loss of greenspace and destruction of trees Trees in Yurulbin Park will be felled to make way for a large acoustic shed and other site works which will lock this park up for four years. The EIS does not describe precisely how many trees will be destroyed or detail the plan to replace them or rehabilitate the area. If trees are felled, the contractor should be required to replace them with mature trees, not seedlings.
● Closure of Birchgrove Ferry Wharf The Birchgrove ferry wharf will be closed for up to 2.5 years which would affect existing ferry services and recreational use of the wharf. No additional bus services will be added to timetables during the wharf’s closure and the EIS suggests residents walk the 1.7km to Balmain Wharf to access ferries. The EIS states that opportunities to relocate the Birchgrove Ferry Wharf will be ‘investigated’ but makes no commitment.
● Unacceptable noise and vibrations The EIS lists 229 homes that will be impacted by noise during site establishment with 2 properties to be 'highly noise affected' by rock-hammers, chainsaws and mulchers. In addition, 79 homes will be impacted by noise at night from barges unloading concrete. Excessive noise can cause stress, impact sleep and reduce quality of life while ongoing noise can seriously impact people’s health. Extensive noise monitoring and noise mitigation should be installed in all impacted homes.


Impact of tunnelling under homes
● Potential for damage to homes The construction of this tunnel has the potential to affect hundreds of homes above the tunnel corridor and in proximity to the tunnel through vibration, ground movement and settlement. The EIS does not adequately address these impacts and fails to address critical details such as the zone of influence (which identifies the area of potential impact), compensation measures, and methods of vibration monitoring. Instead of risking damage to people’s homes, the government should be investing in transformational public transport which poses less risk to property.
● Potential for changing tunnel depths The EIS emphasises that tunnels are expected to be built up to 70 metres deep under the inner west, implying that this reduces the risk to homes. The WestConnex EIS stated that the majority of tunnels would be under 35 metres. While this EIS was approved by government, when the contractor took on the project and released the detailed construction design tunnel depths were reduced to as shallow as 6 metres below homes in Annandale and under 10 meters in Rozelle. If tunnel depths change significantly, the EIS should be placed on public exhibition again to allow for detailed review by the community.


Impacts on air quality
● There is no safe level of particulate matter Research demonstrates that there is no safe exposure level to particulate matter generated by traffic. The EIS fails to fully evaluate the long-term health impacts of the Project. It especially neglects the increased susceptibility of children, the elderly and people with chronic disease who are particularly at risk of the health effects of traffic related particulate matter.
● No filtration of exhaust stacks With two-thirds of people in NSW living in metropolitan Sydney relatively close to major roads, vehicles are one of the most important sources of particulate matter (PM) exposure in NSW and are a significant contributor to negative health impacts including increased mortality, respiratory and cardio-vascular disease, and adverse birth outcomes. The EIS proposes to install a double exhaust stack at Cammeray and vent pollution to the exhaust stacks already planned for Rozelle Goods Yard. These stacks should be filtered according to the world's best practice to reduce the impact on air quality and human health.


Impact on Sydney Harbour and marine life
● Dredging of toxic sediment will pollute the harbour 142,500 cubic metres of contaminated sediment will be dredged from the harbour floor and processed at White Bay. This sediment was stated in the EIS to be contaminated with dioxins, tributyl tin and heavy metals as a result of the harbour’s industrial past. Dredging threatens to contaminate harbour waters by creating a toxic plume that will be difficult to contain. While some minimisation measures are proposed like shallow floating silt curtains, these measures may not be sufficient to prevent plumes of contaminated sediments escaping to the harbour.

Most importantly we WANT as CONDITIONS on this project if it does proceed you are considering the following ?

There are lots of lovely artist’s impressions in the EIS about how things might look at the end of any major construction project: you know the ones – happy pedestrians on wide sunny boulevards in the CBD (but the footpaths are never widened); beautiful scenic vistas from lookout points (which unfortunately are never built) etc.

To safeguard against these sorts of initiatives being ‘forgotten’ along the way over the next 6 years of construction, the technique is to get them specified as CONDITIONS in the approval by the relevant Minister for the project to proceed.

SUGGESTED CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL

Listed below are the CONDITIONS we would ask you to SPECIFICALLY mention in closing your submission. Please include any which you support.

As a formal CONDITION of any approval for these projects we insist on the following:

• full air filtration on all ventilation stacks;
• placing the machinery for the ventilation stacks underground in Cammeray;
• EXPANSION of open, green spaces from the construction of this project
• agreed plans before commencement of the work and dedicated budget for the repair of all nominated construction sites at the end of the project ;
• the addition of a dedicated underground bypass of the North Sydney CBD to handle vehicles going south onto the Bridge and going north onto the Western Harbour Link and going north on the Warringah Expressway ( that is, instead of using Berry St for this purpose);
• a dedicated bus lane in Blue and Miller Streets.”
• the creation of land bridges at multiple locations across the Warringah Freeway to facilitate ‘green grid connectivity’ and provide for new walking paths, cycle ways, sports fields and parklands;
• the construction of a steady angle cycleway from Falcon St/Military Rd to Milson’s Point (the ‘Harbour Link’ proposal).

I object to this project and have attached a letter expressing my concerns.

As a parent of Anzac Park I am very concern about the Traffic issues for our area for North Sydney CBD and the whole LGA more generally, there will be immense permanent collateral damage from the WHT project as it is currently proposed.

1. I STRONGLY OBJECT TO THE NEGATIVE IMPACT ON PEDESTRIAN SAFETY and want to ENSURE THAT PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IS ADDRESSED before any approvals are given to this project.

The North Sydney LGA has the highest concentration of schools in Australia. We need to ensure we are creating a child-friendly and safe walking environment and not prioritising cars over people. The proposal to funnel more cars onto North Sydney streets reduces pedestrian amenity and safety for students and workers.

2. I STRONGLY OBJECT to the WHT EIS BECAUSE the TRAFFIC IMPACT ON LOCAL STREETS IS UNACCEPTABLE. The EIS shows the intersection performance of many key intersections along the Pacific Highway, Miller Street and Military Road will have an ‘F’ rating, the lowest rating there is meaning traffic can’t get any worse, at peak hours eg:
· Miller St and Falcon St intersection
· Miller St and Berry St intersection
· Miller St and Ernest
· Miller St and Amherst Street
· Pacific Highway and Bay Rd
· Pacific Highway and Berry St
· Military Rd and Ben Boyd Rd

SUGGESTED MITIGATION MEASURES

· Using a Tunnel bypass of Berry St to feed through traffic onto the Bridge and also onto the Western Harbour Link seems essential for the North Sydney city CBD to retain any sense of pedestrian friendliness.
· Using truck convoys so that individual streets can be opened (and closed) at reasonably predictable and nominated time, enabling local residents to plan accordingly.
· Providing shuttle bus transport to work site and designated off-site parking for workers so local businesses/ residents do not lose access to their on-street parking.
· Adding a dedicated bus lane in Blue and Miller Streets
· Creating land bridges to facilitate ‘green grid connectivity’ and new walking paths, cycle ways, sports fields and parklands.
• Constructing a steady angle cycle way from Falcon St/Military Rd to Milson’s Point
• Urgent review of the proposed traffic system flows detailed in the North Sydney Area particularly streets like Pacific Hwy, Miller St, Berry St, Falcon St, Ernest St
• More thorough,rigorous review and redesign to reduce the impending high levels of congestion on local roads under the EIS plans

I would also like to object to loss of parks and green space. Notwithstanding some lovely parks and headlands, North Sydney LGA has one of the lowest ratios of green, open space to developed area. We want to see a net growth in open, green space at the end of this project, not suffer a reduction.

I STRONGLY OBJECT because the EIS TAKES AWAY PUBLIC SPACE PERMANENTLY.

I STRONGLY OBJECT to the EIS due to the UNNECESSARY LOSS OF PUBLIC SPACE.
For example, I OBJECT because the CONSTRUCTION OF THE MACHINERY SHED for the ventilation stacks ARE NOT UNDERGROUND AT CAMMERAY as in Rozelle.

I STONGLY OBJECT TO THE LACK OF IMPROVED LINKAGES FOR PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS.

I STRONGLY OBJECT to the LACK OF PLANS and FUNDING for RETURNING CONSTRUCTION SITES and work depots to the community.

SUGGESTED MITIGATION MEASURES

As a CONDITION OF APPROVAL we suggest that the EIS includes:

• AGREED PLANS AND FUNDING for what construction areas and work depots throughout the LGA (Berry Bay, Cammeray Golf Course, Cremorne Point etc.) will look like once the construction is over.

• REMEDIATION PLANS AND COSTS so they are not left to North Sydney Council.

• CREATING MORE OPEN SPACE and IMPROVING PEDESTRIAN LINKAGES

• BUILDING LAND BRIDGES across the expressway accommodating pedestrians, prams, and cyclists - once the project is completed

• BUILDING A DEDICATED BUS LOOP to service both railway stations to create a more pedestrian friendly, healthy environment

• NEW OPEN SPACE and a GREEN GRID, a concept being pushed by the Greater Sydney Commission, for pedestrians and cyclists

• CONSTRUCTING A STEADY ANGLE CYCLE WAY from Falcon St/Military Rd to Milson’s Point and completing the Sydney HarbourLink https://www.sydneyharbourlink.com/).

I am a local resident of Naremburn/Crows nest for over 25 years. I have children in the local daycare and Anzac public school. There is huge impact to my children and my community

I OBJECT to the EIS because the proposed tunnel is TOO LONG for the TYPE OF VENTILATION proposed

Background: In the tunnel it is proposed to install longitudinal ventilation with Exhaust stacks more than 5km from the tunnel entrance - with no filtration of fine particles or gases before the air is dispersed. INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICE in tunnel and stack ventilation proposals sees diesel heavy vehicles banned from tunnels over 4.5km long unless filtration is used (Paris Duplex Tunnel, Istanbul’s Eurasia tunnel), or filters installed and extra air exchange designed ‘in tunnel’ (for example Madrid Calle 30, Tokyo’s Yamate tunnels, Italy’s Casena), or have more exhaust stacks at shorter distances and therefore greater air exchange (e.g. E4 Stockholm has 10 air exchanges on 18km route, an emergency smoke vent and no exhaust stack more than 5km apart).

By contrast the design for the WHLink has the exhausts for the North Sydney and Cammeray mainline exit all at Cammeray unfiltered (7.2km long) and seeks approval for the Beaches Link stack in the same area, which would add a further 8.5km of unfiltered road tunnel pollution from Seaforth to Cammeray out at the same location. The WHLink EIS ventilation design (Arup Report) shows 1 air exchange inlet only at Cammeray to add fresh air for the drivers continuing to Rozelle or Seaforth but this will do nothing to reduce the concentration of pollution collected in the WHLink tunnel to disperse at Cammeray or collected in the Beaches Link tunnel (if approved) for release at Cammeray.

I STRENUOUSLY OBJECT to the lack of air filtration in the tunnels and particularly the Exhaust stacks in the EIS because MONEY AND TRANSPORT OUTCOMES are being PRIORITISED OVER PEOPLE and HEALTH.

Background: Surely the lives of our children and residents are worth the same level of investment as decided and installed in similar projects in Madrid, Tokyo and Hong Kong ? A quotation from at least 2 suppliers for ESP and NOX filtration technology installation for the ventilation stacks must be obtained and made public before any approval of ventilation requirements is made. That cost should include the cost of constructing the stack, which is a cost of the project anyway, only the extra cost for the filters themselves. The operational cost is also a matter for separate costing and publication and not as part of the project: as the operating costs of the tunnel itself are not included in these capital costs.

As a related matter, note that in NSW the 2018 Joint Parliamentary Inquiry into WestConnex recommended we move to use international level exhaust stack filtration in all new projects.


I STREUOUSLY OBJECT to the EIS because it WILL BE MORE EXPENSIVE TO RETROFIT FILTRATION AFTER THE FACT than to incorporate it now.

Background: We already know we will need it as we are not at the Euro 6 vehicle emission and fuel standards, which is assumed in the EIS air pollution modelling. In fact the Federal Government has indefinitely suspended the adoption of this standard into Australia. All suburbs of the North Sydney LGA included in the EIS modelling are forecast to have increased air pollution levels, yet the background air pollution levels already exceed the NEPM national goal of 8mg/m3.

The proposed Ventilation Stacks, however high, do not allow the particulate material to simply ‘blow away’: due to the nearby clusters of tall buildings instead it will tend to fall over the surrounding suburbs, particularly within 200m to 2km of the ventilation stack. This pollution has known and severe health implications - The World Health Organisation has recently declared that outdoor air pollution is already a leading environmental cause of cancer deaths. This is a wilfully stupid approach when the surrounding suburbs are the location of a university, high schools, primary schools, and preschools, in Sydney’s largest education precinct- plus a major hospital


I OBJECT because there is NO ADEQUATE PLAN TO MANAGE the significant
‘UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES’ (noise, dust, etc.) during the construction phase.

Background : It is crucial given the number of schools, childcare, hospitals and nursing homes in the area that all mitigation measures contemplated in the EIS actually be conditions in any approval. This means that additional conditions to specifically cover noise abatement for sensitive receivers are needed during construction, like restriction of truck movements near schools, trucks moving in convoys, trucks not idling outside schools or nursing homes etc. must be in place.

The EIS dust assessment has underestimated the population at schools as 100 each when most schools in the area have 1000 students - so clearly much more care needs to be done about controlling these details.

SUGGESTED MITIGATION MEASURES

As a formal CONDITION of any approval for these projects we suggest you add in the following concepts/limitations:
· Full air filtration on all ventilation stacks - every other developed country overseas filters exhaust stacks on long (5km or longer) urban road tunnels and/ or bans diesel vehicles in tunnels of this length completely ;

· Ongoing Air Quality Monitoring in the tunnel and at ambient sites as per the Brisbane Airport Link Tunnel – it is unacceptable to only monitor for 2 years after the tunnel opens as by that stage the tunnel will in no way be fully trafficked, ambient monitoring will also track impacts of exhaust venting from the tunnel in emergency or unexpected conditions;

· That the Ventilation facilities MUST be built with the sufficient capacity to install Filtration Equipment if it is not mandated in the approval conditions. A condition that he Government must pay for the installation and operation if local particulate air quality (PM2.5) near the ventilation stacks location is above 8 mcg/m3 as motor vehicle emissions are the greatest source of such pollution in Sydney;

· That there is NO provision in any Sale/Lease Clause of the eventual asset that limits in any way the development by the State Government or any other Party of mass transit or Public Transport options that would service any part of the project. By way of explanation, when the M2 expressway was built it had a clause preventing the development of public transport or mass transport options on routes serviced by/ parallel to the route. For 20 years this has stopped a North West Metro line being actioned. Make a comment that this type of limitation must NOT be repeated with this project (and the Northern Beaches Link when/if that is proposed).

· Dust Suppression Measures must be a Condition, as within the EIS Dust Analysis the EIS has presumed that schools only have a 100 pupils. There are over 18,000 High Dust Sensitive receivers identified already in the EIS just from the Cammeray Construction site without underestimating the school population by several thousand.

· Place the machinery buildings for the ventilation stacks underground in Cammeray, as is being done at the Rozelle site. We do not need to lose parks or golf courses.

· Build a dedicated bus lane in North Sydney CBD to service both railway stations (North Sydney and Victoria Cross). This ill speed up the B Line buses moving through the North Sydney CBD and exiting the city area.

· Use the international best practice filtration techniques (ESP and NOX filters) in the tunnel exhaust stacks needed to handle heavy trucks and diesel vehicles that are being diverted off existing roads. This is proven, stable technology.
· Ideally install tranverse treated particulate and NOX filtration through tunnels (not just at the end in the stacks) for the safety of drivers and motorcyclists or ban motorcycles from the tunnel (as is done in Istanbul’s unfiltered 6.5 km Eurasia tunnel) who are at particular risk using an unfiltered long road tunnel.

· Using truck convoys during construction where using local roads so that individual streets can be opened (and closed) at reasonably predictable and nominated time, enabling local residents to plan accordingly.

· Providing shuttle bus transport to work site and designated on-site parking for workers so local businesses and residents do not lose access to their on street parking.

· If exhaust fumes and particulates from the unfiltered smokestacks are added to the air on days where bushfire smoke is already raising the air quality index (AQI) to dangerous levels (as happened onver the last Spring and Summer period) the situation will be made significantly worse. Therefore when the AQI reaches its ‘danger level’ of 200, the WHLink tunnels should be closed to all traffic.

· The EIS suggests “noise reduction pavement” be included on the Freeway anywhere that lanes are regularly being changed by the vehicles, and at the entry/exit points of all portals.

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