Muna Zarka
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Muna Zarka
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ALEXANDRIA
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New South Wales
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I wish to object to the proposed Westconnex St Peters interchange. I am astounded at the Westconnex plan to widen Euston Road to seven lanes at the intersection of Sydney Park Road.
Myself, my husband and my two small children are resident/owners of 1/125 Euston Rd, Alexandria. We are ground floor residents. All our bedroom windows are at street level facing the round about intersecting Sydney Park Road. The proposed road will be an arms length (less than one metre) from our bedroom windows.
The major reasons for my objection are:
1. We will literally have 7 lanes of traffic at our front door and windows with virtually no `buffer' zone between us and the widened road. How can we live a normal existence with this amount of traffic, associated noise and pollution?
2. Our building was NOT designed, nor built to cope with the level of noise or high volume of traffic coming past our front door and windows 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Westconnex has NOT proposed a suitable distance/buffer between the building and the road/traffic.
3. How is it safe, or even legal to propose traffic so close to a residential building? What happens if a vehicle collides outside our window? Where is the safety margin between the traffic and our windows? Would you put your 3 year old and 5 year old to bed at night knowing a vehicle accident could impact their walls and windows throughout the night?
4. The extra traffic that is proposed will increase pollution levels substantially. Both noise pollution and exhaust pollution pose a danger to my family. The road will carry a high volume of traffic and massively increased levels of exhaust emissions. How could we even consider opening our windows for fresh air?
I have attached photos of how close this major 7 lane road will be from our bedroom windows and front door. The pavements, grass, plants and trees you see in the photos will removed and NO longer exist. We will literally have nothing but 7 lanes flush up to our windows and front door.
Myself, my husband and my two small children are resident/owners of 1/125 Euston Rd, Alexandria. We are ground floor residents. All our bedroom windows are at street level facing the round about intersecting Sydney Park Road. The proposed road will be an arms length (less than one metre) from our bedroom windows.
The major reasons for my objection are:
1. We will literally have 7 lanes of traffic at our front door and windows with virtually no `buffer' zone between us and the widened road. How can we live a normal existence with this amount of traffic, associated noise and pollution?
2. Our building was NOT designed, nor built to cope with the level of noise or high volume of traffic coming past our front door and windows 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Westconnex has NOT proposed a suitable distance/buffer between the building and the road/traffic.
3. How is it safe, or even legal to propose traffic so close to a residential building? What happens if a vehicle collides outside our window? Where is the safety margin between the traffic and our windows? Would you put your 3 year old and 5 year old to bed at night knowing a vehicle accident could impact their walls and windows throughout the night?
4. The extra traffic that is proposed will increase pollution levels substantially. Both noise pollution and exhaust pollution pose a danger to my family. The road will carry a high volume of traffic and massively increased levels of exhaust emissions. How could we even consider opening our windows for fresh air?
I have attached photos of how close this major 7 lane road will be from our bedroom windows and front door. The pavements, grass, plants and trees you see in the photos will removed and NO longer exist. We will literally have nothing but 7 lanes flush up to our windows and front door.