I am writing to express my objection to the WestConnex St Peters interchange.

As proposed, the interchange will enormously increase the number of vehicles onto already congested roads such as Euston Rd, King St.

The interchange will severely compromise the amenity, air quality and functionality of Sydney Park. This is a vital regional recreational area for residents in Erskineville, St Peters, Newtown and Alexandrea, and the anticipated increase in traffic volume will greatly affect the park. The proposed construction compound on the south side of Sydney Park will encroach on areas which are currently open recreational space . The increased flow of traffic is also of concern to cyclists, families and pedestrians who use the park and its adjacent streets.

The WestConnex business case admits that many drivers will avoid toll charges by rat running through the narrow back streets of nearby St Peters, Newtown, Alexandria and St Peters and this extra traffic will compromise the pedestrian safety of residents and greatly worsen air quality.

With a 5 billion dollar price tag, money from the proposed New M5 could be used to fund huge investment in public transport. This would greatly improve productivity in the area, reduce air pollution, and maintain the integrity and amenity of green spaces such as Sydney Park

More cars??? We need more public transport, no more cars in an already too busy area. Please think about the people living around and think public transport rather than just coming up with always the same solutions: more roads. It won't work in the long term and I am sure you know it.
Open your mind to new solutions... People are sick of cars, whether they do not have one or do have one and sit in their cars hours every day.
Sick of noise and pollution cars bring around as well!
Think new guys! Open your mind to new solutions and cut your ties with car lobbies!

The proposed M5 St Peters Interchange is a shameful policy proposal that will be both an economic and an environmental burden for NSW citizens for a generation.

The proposed investment is bad policy. It will not solve transport problems. It will contribute to them. As has been demonstrated repeatedly in Sydney and around the world, the new infrastructure will actually increased traffic flow. The State Government decision is therefore a shameful waste of taxes, serving only to enrich corporations and their lackeys without providing a sustainable transport solution to citizens.

Not only will the proposed Interchange actually create more the problems it is purportedly intended to solve, it will be environmental catastrophe for citizens in the inner city. This generation will live with the environmental and health burden and a future generation will also live with the associated economic burdens.

Do not make this unnecessary and wrong-headed investment. Our taxes should be devoted to supporting truely equitable and sustainable solutions. Your target as policy leaders should be to find ways to make the current investment in roads more than adequate for future needs. This will mean new approaches to where employment happens, to where services are delivered, to how people travel in the city, and to how goods are transported.

These are massive challenges, but building the M5 St Peters Interchange will not bring one iota of solution to these problems. Instead it will contribute to and compound them.

Do not use my taxes in this shameful way.

I am strongly opposed to the planned M5 St Peters interchange. It will be a disaster for the inner-west. It will dump thousands of additional vehicles onto already congested local roads, clogging local streets and worsening local air quality. The tangle of flyovers right next to Sydney Park will severely detract from the amenity of the park. Build more roads and you encourage more people to drive their cars. The money allocated to the interchange should be diverted to improving public transport.

Please do not destroy our historical area of Sydney with this excessive overdevelopment in St. Peter's. This will ruin one of our limited green spaces inSydney park which is one of our few green spaces in an increasingly developed suburb. Please put the money into public transport rather than more useless roads. After the Paris climate talks ,it must be obvious that we need to use and build roads less not more.

Please don't destroy the history of Sydney.

Please do not destroy the history and integrity of the inner west.This obscene interchange at St Peters will ruin our suburbs. We are already fighting for space with the many new apartments in the area. I do not object to the new residences but I do object to the lack of public transport solutions and extraordinary number of additional vehicles that will pile into our already crowded narrow streets.

I oppose the proposed WestConnex on a two major grounds.
1. Sydney Park, one of the few large green spaces in the City of Sydney will surrounded by high-volume roads, ultimately decreasing the size of the park and reducing air quality.
2. The final stage of WestConnex is unfunded. There is a real possibility with governmental change/lack of foresight that the Interchange will dump cars into the surrounding suburbs with no further action to reduce congestion in the already crowded inner city suburbs.

I wish to oppose the proposal, and in particular the fact that traffic will be channelled into King Street, which can barely cope with existing traffic flows.

This secretive public work will wreck the character of surrounding suburbs. The money would be better spent on public transport getting bogans and breeders addicted to cars off roads resulting a better environment. I have not seen any accurate or properly disclosed information on this abysmal project to date, just the usual 'progress is good' smokescreen by a redundant State government.

Dear Sir/Madam

I am writing to strenuously object to the proposed St Peters Interchange for Westconnex. We should be embarrassed to be pursuing a 1950s planning solution to our transport problems in 2015.

- The streets around St Peters, Newtown, Erskineville and Alexandria are already struggling to cope: dumping more cars into this area is no good for the new traffic, nor for existing road users.

- King Street is one of the rare urban gems of Australia. What next? Will the NSW Dept of Planning insist on removing on-street parking to turn it into an ugly highway like Rockdale? There goes the neighbourhood.

- Even the Westconnex business case admits that drivers will try to avoid tolls by using nearby streets as a rat run.

- Sydney's inner west is already densely populated and suffering from air pollution. Bringing more cars into the area will only damage the health of more and more people.

- It's clear the NSW Dept of Planning is struggling to manage this project efficiently: the secrecy about the project was for a good reason, and it's already suffering a significant cost overrun. We can only imagine there'll be more of these as time goes on.

With climate change already bringing us year after year of record hot weather, it's a retrograde step to be investing in roads. Instead let's invest in a transport solution that will really serve us well into the future. That's rail, in case you're wondering.

Yours sincerely
Elizabeth Weiss