The next meeting of the Alexandria Residents Action Group is 7pm this Wednesday, 10 February, at Alexandria Town Hall, Garden St.
On the agenda:
The Australian Senate has called for an audit of WestConnex.
You can too. Continue reading
Just how much money is involved in paying for westCONnex?
The original business case for westCONnex stated a project cost of $10 billion.
An updated business case for westCONnex was released in November 2015.
So now, the stated project cost for westCONnex is $16.812 billion. That’s a massive cost blowout of 68.12%, and that’s before any project milestones have been achieved.
Expect the cost to blow out much further during the course of the project.
But how much, really, is $16.812 billion? Continue reading
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.
Contributed by one of our co-ord group members.
On my reading of the EIS chapters, there are impacts on Alexandria both on the noise and vibration front, but the main impact on us is noise. The EIS generally dismisses vibration as an issue that won’t cause us problems. ( EG See, Vol 2D, App J Page 149 5.5.2 ).
There are a couple of points worth making Continue reading
WestConnex, if it goes ahead, will be devastating for Sydney Park.
To see how to object, click here.
It will take a large chunk out of the south eastern side, for a ‘construction compound’ that will reach almost to the large lake.
It will take off the southern corner, to create a massive intersection between Euston Rd, Campbell Rd and the tunnel ramps. (See the black line on Continue reading
The State Government plans to spend $18 billion on WestConnex, an inner city tollway that is to connect the M4 to the M5 via a tunnel. The tunnel will be one of the world’s longest, and most expensive. The $18 billion bill for WestConnex dwarfs spending on other forms of transport infrastructure. Continue reading
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.
To lodge an objection to the WestConnex New M5 , please:
Or for other ways to object to the WestConnex M5 EIS, visit: http://m5eis.org/category/how-to-make-your-submission/
Submissions close at Midnight!
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