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Arncliffe
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New South Wales
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Secretary, Department of Planning and Environment,
NSW Department of Planning and Environment,
GPO Box 39, Sydney NSW 2001
Dear Sir/Madam,
Re: WestConnex New M5 EIS, project number SSI 14_6788
I object to the WestConnex New M5 for the following reasons:
DESTRUCTION OF BIODIVERSITY
I object to removal of most of the Critically Endangered Cooks River Ironbark forest at Kingsgrove, to the destruction of the habitat of the Vulnerable Green and Golden Bell Frog population at Arncliffe, and to the removal of the trees that provide food for the Vulnerable Grey-headed Flying-fox, which has a camp of substantial size in the Wolli Creek Valley. The construction of a massive new road must not come at the expense of our bushland; our flora and our fauna.
DEGRADATION OF RECREATIONAL GREEN SPACES
I object to the loss of green recreational spaces at Kingsgrove, Bexley North, Kogarah Golf Course at Arncliffe, and at St Peters. As the density of Sydney increases and the associated urban heat island effect intensifies, our green spaces must be increased and enhanced, not decreased and degraded.
TRAFFIC IMPACTS ON LOCAL ROADS
I object to the increased traffic the NewM5 will bring to local roads. When complete, King Georges, Stoney Creek, Canterbury, Forest and Moorefields Rds. will carry increased traffic as motorists avoid the new tolls. These roads, already carrying numerous diesel-fuelled dangerous goods vehicles, will not cope with additional traffic, posing dangers for all using such local roads, in particular school children.
TRAFFIC MODELLING
I object to the failure of the Sydney Motorway Corporation to publicly reveal the peer review of the traffic model and their failure to reveal the assumptions on which it is based so that independent traffic planners can test its results.
URBAN DESIGN
I object to the building of new roads without considering the effects these roads will have on our urban environment. Where will all the new vehicles be parked when they get from the suburbs to the centres? By 2031, the New M5 is predicted to accommodate 81,500 vehicles per day, which will require lots of new carparks to be built on land in our city centres.
AIR QUALITY
I object to the three new unfiltered, emissions stacks proposed for Kingsgrove, Arncliffe and St Peters. These will negatively affect air quality in all surrounding suburbs. This is compounded for the densely populated suburbs of Wolli Creek and Arncliffe, which are already affected by the unfiltered M5 stack at Turrella; they will now also be affected by the new stack on the Kogarah Golf Course at Arncliffe. The planners of the road admit that any new developments proposed after the stacks are built will need to carefully assess where the exhaust pollutants are going because they do not know. More and more of these pollutants are diesel particles which in 2012, were upgraded by the World Health Organisation to the highest cancer warning level because they are particularly dangerous for the lungs of growing children.
POOR ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVES
I object to the bias of the project objectives towards road infrastructure, and the exclusion of other potential solutions such as demand management or public transport infrastructure. The EIS confirms that the project will have significant societal, environmental and economic impacts and these could be avoided by pursuing other approaches. Sydney's population is forecast to increase but increasing private vehicle usage is not a sustainable solution to support this population growth.
Yours sincerely,
Sam Muglia
NOTE: I have not donated more than $1,000 to a political party in the current financial year. I confirm that my name and suburb but not my full address nor email address can be published on the Major Project website where all submissions will published.
NSW Department of Planning and Environment,
GPO Box 39, Sydney NSW 2001
Dear Sir/Madam,
Re: WestConnex New M5 EIS, project number SSI 14_6788
I object to the WestConnex New M5 for the following reasons:
DESTRUCTION OF BIODIVERSITY
I object to removal of most of the Critically Endangered Cooks River Ironbark forest at Kingsgrove, to the destruction of the habitat of the Vulnerable Green and Golden Bell Frog population at Arncliffe, and to the removal of the trees that provide food for the Vulnerable Grey-headed Flying-fox, which has a camp of substantial size in the Wolli Creek Valley. The construction of a massive new road must not come at the expense of our bushland; our flora and our fauna.
DEGRADATION OF RECREATIONAL GREEN SPACES
I object to the loss of green recreational spaces at Kingsgrove, Bexley North, Kogarah Golf Course at Arncliffe, and at St Peters. As the density of Sydney increases and the associated urban heat island effect intensifies, our green spaces must be increased and enhanced, not decreased and degraded.
TRAFFIC IMPACTS ON LOCAL ROADS
I object to the increased traffic the NewM5 will bring to local roads. When complete, King Georges, Stoney Creek, Canterbury, Forest and Moorefields Rds. will carry increased traffic as motorists avoid the new tolls. These roads, already carrying numerous diesel-fuelled dangerous goods vehicles, will not cope with additional traffic, posing dangers for all using such local roads, in particular school children.
TRAFFIC MODELLING
I object to the failure of the Sydney Motorway Corporation to publicly reveal the peer review of the traffic model and their failure to reveal the assumptions on which it is based so that independent traffic planners can test its results.
URBAN DESIGN
I object to the building of new roads without considering the effects these roads will have on our urban environment. Where will all the new vehicles be parked when they get from the suburbs to the centres? By 2031, the New M5 is predicted to accommodate 81,500 vehicles per day, which will require lots of new carparks to be built on land in our city centres.
AIR QUALITY
I object to the three new unfiltered, emissions stacks proposed for Kingsgrove, Arncliffe and St Peters. These will negatively affect air quality in all surrounding suburbs. This is compounded for the densely populated suburbs of Wolli Creek and Arncliffe, which are already affected by the unfiltered M5 stack at Turrella; they will now also be affected by the new stack on the Kogarah Golf Course at Arncliffe. The planners of the road admit that any new developments proposed after the stacks are built will need to carefully assess where the exhaust pollutants are going because they do not know. More and more of these pollutants are diesel particles which in 2012, were upgraded by the World Health Organisation to the highest cancer warning level because they are particularly dangerous for the lungs of growing children.
POOR ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVES
I object to the bias of the project objectives towards road infrastructure, and the exclusion of other potential solutions such as demand management or public transport infrastructure. The EIS confirms that the project will have significant societal, environmental and economic impacts and these could be avoided by pursuing other approaches. Sydney's population is forecast to increase but increasing private vehicle usage is not a sustainable solution to support this population growth.
Yours sincerely,
Sam Muglia
NOTE: I have not donated more than $1,000 to a political party in the current financial year. I confirm that my name and suburb but not my full address nor email address can be published on the Major Project website where all submissions will published.
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Alexandria
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New South Wales
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21.1.2016
Name: Joanna McCulloch
Address: BG02/ 3 Brennan St Alexandria
I strongly object to the proposed New M5.
The roads around the St Peters interchange are already at an unacceptable Level of Service and are getting worse because of in-fill developments not allowed for by the EIS:
* Green Square: 61,000 residents
* Ashmore: 6,000 residents
* Waterloo Estate: 30,000 residents
* Central 2 Eveleigh: 56,000 residents, 25,000 workers
Already we have seen an increase in the road usage along McEvoy Street, drivers frustrated with traffic delays are using local roads to take short cuts to looking for a way through. Speed and safety for pedestrians has now become a problem around Alexandria Park. This will be amplified if the M5 EIS is built.
If clearways are imposed on McEvoy Street or Kings Street Newtown to address the Euston street lane expansion, local small businesses will greatly suffer and may be forced to close with job losses. If cars are expected to park off the main roads to access businesses, parking in Alexandria/Newtown is already stretched now without adding to the stress.
All because outer Sydney have to drive through the area to get to the other side of Sydney. Tax payer money from this project would be better spent on addressing the short fall in Public transport - increase trains/ commuter parking. In regards to Port Botany rail usage should be encouraged instead of large truck to move cargo.
Building more roads is a short sighted option to benefit a few at the expense of local communities. Alexandria and Newtown are vibrant communities, driving major roadways through us is a way to destroy any sense of community we have left. Is this government happy to sacrifice thriving communities to increase profits for developers, and create new bottle necks of traffic in small local areas?
I call for the M5 EIS not to proceed. As a NSW taxpayer, I want better value for money.
NSW government should be more forward thinking, public transport should be the investment not road building
Yours sincerely
Joanna McCulloch
Taxpayer and Voter
Name: Joanna McCulloch
Address: BG02/ 3 Brennan St Alexandria
I strongly object to the proposed New M5.
The roads around the St Peters interchange are already at an unacceptable Level of Service and are getting worse because of in-fill developments not allowed for by the EIS:
* Green Square: 61,000 residents
* Ashmore: 6,000 residents
* Waterloo Estate: 30,000 residents
* Central 2 Eveleigh: 56,000 residents, 25,000 workers
Already we have seen an increase in the road usage along McEvoy Street, drivers frustrated with traffic delays are using local roads to take short cuts to looking for a way through. Speed and safety for pedestrians has now become a problem around Alexandria Park. This will be amplified if the M5 EIS is built.
If clearways are imposed on McEvoy Street or Kings Street Newtown to address the Euston street lane expansion, local small businesses will greatly suffer and may be forced to close with job losses. If cars are expected to park off the main roads to access businesses, parking in Alexandria/Newtown is already stretched now without adding to the stress.
All because outer Sydney have to drive through the area to get to the other side of Sydney. Tax payer money from this project would be better spent on addressing the short fall in Public transport - increase trains/ commuter parking. In regards to Port Botany rail usage should be encouraged instead of large truck to move cargo.
Building more roads is a short sighted option to benefit a few at the expense of local communities. Alexandria and Newtown are vibrant communities, driving major roadways through us is a way to destroy any sense of community we have left. Is this government happy to sacrifice thriving communities to increase profits for developers, and create new bottle necks of traffic in small local areas?
I call for the M5 EIS not to proceed. As a NSW taxpayer, I want better value for money.
NSW government should be more forward thinking, public transport should be the investment not road building
Yours sincerely
Joanna McCulloch
Taxpayer and Voter
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SURRY HILLS
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New South Wales
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Benjamin Goh
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Alexandria
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New South Wales
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Development of the West Connex road impacts the community we live in negatively.
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tempe
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New South Wales
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This attached submission is on the destruction of the Cooks River Clay Plain Forest - aka Cooks River Castlereagh Forrest of the Sydney Basin.
The M5 widening from King Georges Road towards the airport will destroy 1.4 hectares (78%) hectares of the best part of the 1.8 hectares of the critically endangered Cooks
River Clay Plain Forest at Kingsgrove, also known as the Cooks River Castlereagh Forest of the Sydney Basin (CRCIF).
The time available for the public to comment on the thousands of pages of WestConnex EIS, until 29 January 2016, over the Christmas holiday period is a dubiously short target set by the government for such a questionable project.
Sydney was once well known as the big bush town. As remnant forests disappear and developments 'bomb' our landscape Sydney which was once well known as the bush capital of NSW will be but just a barren landscape of concrete and pollution.
Thank you NSW government for not allowing the public to have their say.
The M5 widening from King Georges Road towards the airport will destroy 1.4 hectares (78%) hectares of the best part of the 1.8 hectares of the critically endangered Cooks
River Clay Plain Forest at Kingsgrove, also known as the Cooks River Castlereagh Forest of the Sydney Basin (CRCIF).
The time available for the public to comment on the thousands of pages of WestConnex EIS, until 29 January 2016, over the Christmas holiday period is a dubiously short target set by the government for such a questionable project.
Sydney was once well known as the big bush town. As remnant forests disappear and developments 'bomb' our landscape Sydney which was once well known as the bush capital of NSW will be but just a barren landscape of concrete and pollution.
Thank you NSW government for not allowing the public to have their say.