EIS IS SEVERELY FLAWED
The EIS lacks rigour and sound analysis, despite the huge volume of documentation. This lack of rigour and analysis is consistent across all chapters and appendices. The project objectives are biased towards a motorway solution, so that any proposed alternative falls short of the proposed solution. Similarly, the work undertaken in the EIS is highly compliance driven, and fails to take into account opportunities or strategic impacts, and the assessment of cumulative impacts is almost negligent.

SHOULDN'T THE GOVERNMENT BE ACTING TO REDUCE GREEN HOUSE GASSES??? IT WOULD IF IT CARED
The whole WestCONnex system will increase greenhouse gas emissions in Sydney at a time when we should be doing all we can to reduce them. We are not convinced by a method of analysis which does not look at alternatives but instead compares the New M5 project against a `do nothing' scenario to claim a reduction in Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
Just many more reasons to object to the westconnex

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I strongly object to the unacceptable impact the project to the people our health and amenity, our future, our heritage, habitats, endangered animals, and a critically endangered forest. It is disgraceful that all this and more will be sacrificed for a project that can't even be justified.
Another huge reason to object to the westconnex

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NOTE: A submission has been accidentally published in my name by a friend, Josie Evans, using my computer via the submission page at http://www.jennyleong.org/m5_eis.

The city needs much more public transport. This will move people around more quickly and conveniently. This should be prioritised over roads.

You build more roads, you get more traffic. Wider roads always lead to narrower roads.

In the next few years, much more quickly than we can imagine, we will go through massive disruption where electric vehicles (EVs) will replace internal combustion engine cars (ICEs) and vehicles will become autonomous. This will mean a change in the transport model which is already happening with rideshare services such as Uber. Young people are buying cars less. We should not be spending vast amounts on monolithic structures when we're about to undergo great disruption.

The new structures can only lead to permanent clearways in Newtown which will be absolutely hideous.

This feels like yet another snow job by the NSW government. Lack of transparency, no vision, the usual.