Jenny Leong’s office is soliciting comments from residents who will be impacted by the Baird government’s plan to reduce train services to St Peters and Erskineville Stations: http://www.jennyleong.org/train_services.
The agenda for Wednesday’s ARAG meeting (13/7) is:
1. Central to Eveleigh
Development along the rail corridor between
Central and Eveleigh stations.
Guest speaker: Matthew White, Program Director, UrbanGrowth NSW.
2. Update on Alexandria Hotel
Land and Environment Court proceedings have resumed.
There will be a ‘Mediation’ meeting between the developer, and Council,
and Residents: Aug 4, 9:30am, on-site
3. AGM.
Anyone who wishes to become more involved in the Residents Group is
encouraged to nominate to join the Executive.
Today (Monday 2/6) is the last opportunity to lodge a comment on the so-called Sydney Metro.
See our previous post for ways to object, or visit the majorprojects website.
The reason I say so-called Metro, is because this isn’t really a Metro. It has some of the features of a Metro, but not the good ones. Continue reading
Cities all over the world are converting from single deck trains to double deck trains. Why then, is Sydney going in the other direction?
Why are the Metro tunnels going to be just too small for conventional trains? Why is the Bankstown line being downgraded from double deck to single deck?
EcoTransit, the public transport advocacy group, aren’t impressed.
Submissions on the Metro close on 27 June – see our previous post on this topic.
EcoTransit have released a flyer and a pro-forma submission with more information which you may wish to draw if you are considering preparing your own submission.
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
As you probably know by now, the State Government has announced that the ‘Sydney Metro’ will have a station at Waterloo, immediately south-east of the intersection between Botany Road and Raglan Street.
The first Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the project has been released, and is available here. 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
Things you need to know about the new DA for the Alexandria Hotel:
Floor-to-space ratio massively exceeds Council’s clearly-stated limit of 2.5:1;
Building height massively exceeds Council’s clearly-stated height limit;
Building size and bulk, and overshadowing of the heritage-listed Alexandria Hotel;
Lack of an approved plan to build over the Redfern-Erskineville rail tunnel;
Lack of approval to access property belonging to the Australian Technology Park;
Lack of off-street resident parking, and
Lack of clear waste-management processes.
For more information, visit savethealexpub.tumblr.com.
To lodge an objection to a Development Application (also known as a DA), you need to 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
Alexandria Residents' Action Group 