This month’s meeting will be held on Wednesday 22 June, at 7pm, at Alexandria Town Hall. (Not our usual date!)
The meeting will be a Meet the Candidates for the Federal Seat of Sydney, and is being jointly organised by RedWatch, Friends of Erskineville and ARAG. Continue reading
At last Monday’s City of Sydney Council meeting, Lord Mayor Clover Moore made the following statement of opposition to WestConnex:
‘I can assure the City community that the City Government I lead will do everything we can to expose and stop this destructive project.’
The Lord Mayor recommended Continue reading
Alexandria Residents’ Action Group (ARAG) welcomes the decision by the Federal Auditor General to conduct a Performance Audit in relation to the “Approval and Administration of Commonwealth Funding for the WestConnex project”.
We are pleased by the decision to examine whether the Commonwealth’s involvement was properly informed by appropriate advice and followed the established processes as apply to nationally significant infrastructure investments.
The NSW Auditor-General’s Report into WestConnex in 2014 was damning, Continue reading
Alexandria Residents Action Group condemns yesterday’s approval of the New M5.
The New M5 will be a financial disaster for the NSW budget, and for motorists who currently use the M4 and the M5 for free.
The project will not reduce overall congestion.
Ministers Stokes and Gay are misrepresenting the New M5 EIS. Continue reading
Duncan Gay has said that WestConnex is a “magic tunnel“. It appears it’s also a time machine.
According to westconnex.com.au, using WestConnex to travel the 12k from Homebush Bay Drive to Parramatta Road, Camperdown, will take 15 minutes.
Obviously, that can only be true if WestConnex does manage to ‘cure’ congestion. But let’s suspend disbelief for a moment, while we travel another 3k along Duncan’s Magic Tunnel, beyond Camperdown, to the St Peters Interchange.
Now how long is the total journey?
That’s right, 12 minutes. We’ve travelled 3k in WestConnex, and we’ve gone backwards in time by 3 minutes.
It’s not just a Magic Tunnel, it’s a Time Machine.
This has been said before, but WestConnex does not add up, does not add up, does not add up.
The M4-M5 tunnel is supposed to cure congestion, and it’s supposed to carry 120,000 cars a day. Unless it truly is a Magic Tunnel, it can’t do both of those things.
WestConnex is going to cost $16.8B, or more.
It’s time the traffic modelling was released. And it’s time WestConnex was audited.
The Response to Submissions on the New M5 EIS has been released.
It is a mix of unjustified assertions, claims that are reversed in some other section, misleading statements, and statements and calculations that are outright wrong. Many objections to the M5 are not treated seriously, or are acknowledged but not discussed, or are not even acknowledged.
There are however two important admissions made Continue reading
Slides from tonight’s meeting are here: ARAG Meeting – 20160413
To email your local MP about WestConnex, visit http://www.westconnexactiongroup.org.au/federalmp
To object to the Alexandria Hotel DA, visit https://www.planningalerts.org.au/applications/643228 or https://online.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/DA/IndividualApplication?tpklapappl=124639. See also savethealexpub.tumblr.com.
Sample of an Objection to 9 Mitchell Rd here: Objection D 2016 329 – 9 Mitchell Road web version
Come to this month’s ARAG meeting at Wednesday 13th, 7pm, Alexandria Town Hall, for updates on:
To all those who came to Alexandria Sunday Fun Day today, a big thank you.
An extra thank you to those who dropped by the ARAG tent to have a chat or to sign the petition to the Auditor General or a letter to your local MP.
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The next meeting of the Alexandria Residents Action Group will be
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Alexandria Sunday Fun Day will have: jumping castle, Continue reading
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