ARAG today submitted its objection to the westCONnex ‘New M5’ Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).

Submissions to the Planning Department in relation to this debacle of a project – $16.812 BILLION of your taxpayer dollars – close today.

ARAG’s PDF submission is enclosed here for you to download here: ARAG Submission – westCONnex M5 EIS.

Here’s hoping that somebody is listening.

If you’re quick, you can still submit your own objection. Feel free to copy / adapt from the information here, or visit A People’s M5 EIS on the embedded link.

Both our site and the M5EIS.org site contain links to direct you to the Department of Planning’s submission portal.

Vanessa and I have just submitted our objection to the westCONnex M5 EIS. It is based largely on the NOwestCONnex template but raises additional points.

The enclosed PDF may be of interest to others still preparing their submissions.

20160126 – M5EIS Submission – Speechley – Knight

We’ve had confirmation from WestConnex that they do not plan to allow right hand turns from Euston Road into Sydney Park Road, except for buses. So the diagrams showing two right hand turn lanes are wrong – there will only be one right hand turn lane, and it will be buses only.

The New M5 EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) has been released. The impact on Alexandria will be devastating.

Alexandria Residents’ Action Group will be running a workshop on the EIS, at:

7pm on Wednesday 13 January
Alexandria Town Hall (73 Garden St).

Please come along and:

• Hear more about what the impact will be on Alexandria
• Get advice on how to submit an objection
• Learn what more you can do to save your suburb

We only have until 29 January to submit objections.

The M5 East EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) has been released. Comments on the EIS are being accepted until 29 January.

The impact on Alexandria is every bit as bad as we had feared. If anything, it’s worse than expected.

From about 2019, the M5 will terminate at Sydney Park. When complete, it will dump over 100,000 cars into our suburbs, much of which will end up on local streets. This is not by accident – it is intentional.

60,000 vehicles are expected to use Euston Road. This is more traffic than uses Victoria Road. It is almost ten times the traffic that Euston Road currently handles.

An extra lane in each direction will be added to Euston Road. The north-bound lane will go as far as Maddox Street, where it becomes a new left-hand turn lane, channelling traffic off Euston Road and into Maddox Street. Continue reading →