This project is unnecessary and unwanted. People want more public transport, not a toll road. The environmental impact to the surrounding Flat Rock Gully and Middle Harbour foreshore area will be devastating. Did you know that a seal has recently come to swim in the waters there as it’s so clean? Native birds and animals’ habitat will be destroyed and long-term impact is a polluting exhaust tunnel with unfiltered stacks because of more traffic to the area. The community should not have to endure this imposition on our area. I object to this project.

This is a good idea and project. I believe it will decongest roads, public transport, as well as create jobs.

There are high concerns about the environmental impact of this project. Public land and its natural surroundings should not be destroyed to make space for more vehicles. It’s disappointing it’s not a train line. However if we’ve learnt anything from the past year, people are no longer occupying city spaces and a greater appreciation for the environment and natural space around us. These spaces are incredibly important and becoming increasingly valuable as our world changes. As a young person I want future to be able to enjoy the beautiful green spaces around us (middle harbour, tunks parks and flat rock gully) for my whole life.

I object to the project on a number of fronts.
1. The investment of $14bn + should be in public transport infrastructure and not on building roads. The priority should be to build infrastructure to support public transport options to the northern beaches and not building more toll roads. The long term viability of public transport vs building more roads must be the priority. The tunnels, in their current design only funnel traffic from one bottleneck to another. There is no improvement in the road network to support the tunnels.

2. The unfiltered stacks. I live in Cammeray. We have no direct benefit of these tunnels. We have all the negative impacts of years of construction and then the ongoing impacts of unfiltered pollution in an area that has thousands of students within multiple schools between North Sydney and Willoughby. Our kids deserve better. Our community deserves better. Building infrastructure for future generations should not come at the health expense of future generations.

3. Environmental impacts to Flat Rock Gully. This area is significant to our community. It provides leisure options and enables physical activity for many. It is also home to flora and fauna. All of this is at risk, both short term during the build and long term. Our green space, essential to help manage pollution from already existing main arterial roads around our community, is significantly impacted. No guarantees this will be regenerated.

4. Traffic impacts due to the construction. With Cammeray in the middle of two significant tunnels sites, the traffic congestion due to the hundreds of trucks a day will be a significant impact on our community. I live on Miller St. The traffic that will by pass Flat Rock/Brooke St and travel down/up Miller to access the city on ramps during construction is concerning. Cammeray public school has hundreds of children and families navigating Miller st everyday. This additional congestion is a significant concern. The thoroughfare of the Miller St shopping precinct will be heavily congested with the additional traffic by passing the key construction site at flat rock. What plans are in place to minimise this impact on the Cammeray community and Miller st residents? With 24/7 tunnelling and construction, the noise and traffic congestion will be a significant impact to quality of life. What reimbursement or compensation is offered to local communities to minimise impacts and disruptions in our local streets and communities.

This is not a project for progress. This is a project to justify putting more cars on roads. Please consider building infrastructure that supports public transport.

Love a good infrastructure plan - especially for the beaches

I object to this project for the following reasons.

This is a misguided use of money. You are simply displacing traffic that occurs along Spit/Military Roads and putting this under ground. There are already pinch points around the Cammeray/Warringah Freeway area and this is simply going to be exacerbated with the proposed on and off ramps being located in the area.

People are not going to be willing to pay the toll so there will still be traffic issues above ground as well as below ground not to mention the tunnel will promote additional traffic to some of the back streets of Cremorne, Neutral Bay, Cammeray which will create safety issues for families.

Instead these funds/tunnel should be used for public transport which would benefit the wider community (ie. younger kids/teenages (who can't drive), older people (who are reluctant/can't drive) as well as everyone else in between who would prefer public transport than drive and hassle with finding parking) . Let's be like our overseas rivals and link it to the Sydney Metro....building a road for cars is so glib and short sighted.

Implementing a better public transport system would also have a greater impact on improving our environment. Has a public transport option to serve the Northern Beaches been considered?

The proposed location of the ventilation stacks is shocking given the proximity to houses and numerous schools and the notion that any decrease on air quality will be "negligible" or "imperceptible" is wrong. These stacks MUST BE VENTILATED and also why not spread them out....why should residents located at either end of the tunnel be subject to the pollution being spewed out by all the traffic rather than venting it out at various points along the tunnel. I presume this is the save money? Given the health implications this does not seem at all equitable. At its very core ANY decrease in the air quality should be grounds for not allowing this project to go ahead.

The traffic and congestion caused during both the operation and construction of this development will cause safety issues given the number of young children living in the area as well as as they travel to and from school/preschool etc. around the Cammeray area. There is a very high number of young children moving about in the area given the number of schools and this is cause for concern.

The development will encroach on the green spaces available to locals diminishing the liveability of the surrounding neighbourhoods.

Thank you for considering the above. I really would like to see some alternative ideas and feasibility undertaken around how better to allocate these funds....surely public transport is a better alternative.

I object to the project unless and until measures are implemented to mitigate the impact of construction traffic and noise on the students of Balgowlah Boys High School. The school is directly opposite the Balgowlah Golf Course construction hub which is forecast to have 495 heavy vehicles a day travelling to and from it. This will pose an unacceptable interruption to students and will have a very detrimental impact on their learning and academic results. A commitment must be made to ensure that the impact on students is mitigated by adequate acoustic insulation and other appropriate solutions.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Notice of Exhibition
Beaches Link and Gore Hill Freeway Connection (SSI-8862)

Thank you for notifying Fire & Rescue NSW (FRNSW) of the exhibition of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the above State Significant Infrastructure project, and request for agency review and comment.

It is understood that the EIS has been prepared by Jacobs Group (Australia) and Arcadis Australia Pacific on behalf of Transport for NSW (the Proponent) to address matters identified in the Secretary’s Environmental Assessment Requirements (SEARs) that were issued in regard to the construction and operation of tunnels and roadways, including; a western bypass of the Sydney CBD, and an alternative to the Military Road/Spit Road and Warringah Road corridors.

It is understood that the Proponent (or representatives thereof) will be required to undertake consultation with FRNSW throughout the design process in regard to the fire and life safety aspects of the project. As such, FRNSW submit no specific comments or recommendations for consideration given that agency specific requirements can be addressed at this time.

If you have any queries regarding the above please contact the Fire Safety Infrastructure Liaison Unit, referencing FRNSW file number BFS20/4064. Please ensure that all correspondence in relation to this matter is submitted electronically to [email protected].

Regards,

Flat Rock Gully turning into a Dive site
Like many residents in the Willoughby area, we are mentally & emotionally stressed about the demolishing of the bushland know as Flat Rock Gully. Thousands of trees are going to be knocked down and the area is going to be turned into a dirty dive site for the so called "Northern Beaches Link".

I would like to discuss how is it possible for the NSW Govt to allow an area classed as a "Wild Life Protection area" that is home to over 30 threatened species to be demolished, polluted and ruined?

The NSW Health quoted on national TV last week "the cricket must go ahead as it's good for people's mental health"

Yet most of us who care about the environment are still very mentally scarred from the bushfires, and now we are going to witness this beautiful area demolished for a very unnecessary reason, 'a dive sit' probably just to save a few dollars.

This area was used by thousands of people in the Covid lock down for walking and destressing, not only is it housing many threatened species, it is one of the few left bushlands that people can access to 'escape' the hustle and bustle of inner city living.

I would like to understand how them Environmental Minister is standing by and letting Gladys B, John B and Andrew C getting demolish a Wildlife Protection Zone.

Flat Rock Gully SHOULD be classed as a National Park. This lazy attitude of the NSW Govt that treats trees and nature as something that's "in their way" is backwards and these so called leaders are stuck in their 1950 ways. We need innovative and intelligent solutions where infrastructure works with nature NOT against it.

I urge you take this matter seriously and ask the NSW Govt leaders to find another place for their dive site that does not destroy bushlands, kill more native animals, (including the 30+ threatened species that live there), PLUS the outstanding contribution this tunnel will add to Sydney's pollution issues, air and water, not to mention how this effects climate change, and they will be digging up toxic waste and old asbestos materials from the last time the government was dumb enough to destroy this area use it for a tip.

Please reconsider the placement of this dive site.


Thank you for your time.

Please proceed with this project