please see attached document containing my submission of objection to this proposal

The issue with this project is the lack of associated works to improve key strategic routes at the entry and exit points in Alexandria. There is an urgent need to complete the widening of the Euston Road, McEvoy and Lachlan Street corridor and additionally Botany Road from Henderson Street to Gardeners Road.

That construction of the New M5 can proceed without a single mention of the need to complete these long overdue road widening programs speaks much of the lack of consultation and integration and the holistic management of the road network. Indeed, these projects should have been completed years ago however with the imminent construction of the New M5 failure to complete them will result in almost total gridlock in Alexandria, Zetland and Green Square.

Nowhere in the entire New M5 planning documentation is there any mention of the need to upgrade the road network in Alexandria, Zetland and Green Square. Furthermore, these road improvements were identified long ago as vital and indeed in 2003 were given the go ahead by the then minister Carl Scully (Attachment 1) and supported by Randwick City Council (Attachment 2 & 3)

The City of Sydney refuses to acknowledge that this widening scheme is needed and believes that public transport, in particular its plan for light rail extension from Green Square, through Victoria Park, should take precedence over any road widening proposals.

While key public transport projects should be undertaken the fact is that without the completion of the road projects I have identified the proposed light rail too will be victim to the very same traffic congestion that inhibits the free flow of buses through the area.

Therefore, the only practical way to make the New M5 work is to include a number of long delayed road widening schemes I have detailed and call them "enabling works" like those being undertaken around Sydney Airport.