westconnex won’t work! public transport will!
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WestCONnex won’t work! PUBLIC TRANSPORT WILLNoW Public Transport: www.westconnex.infoMap explaination: Blue lines are the proposed WestConnex tunnels and roads (as of March 2015).Purple lines are roads which will be expanded to carry many more cars. The orange lines are the proposed Rozelle to Lane Cove tunnel to the north and the proposed F6 (M6) to Loftus in the south.Exit ramps, which expel the heaviest polluting particles, will occur at intervals of approximately 3.5 kilometres. The location of the polluting vents or smoke stacks with a polluting radius of between 1–2 kilometres will be determined by the contractors, based on cheapest cost and usually sited in parks and on hills. There would be a minimum of 5 smoke stacks, one in Bexley, one in Wolli Creek Valley Park, one in O’Dea Reserve or Camperdown Park, one in Lilyfield/Haberfield and one in Five Dock.WestCONnex is not the future we want!Authorised by Chris Elenor, NoWestCONnex PublicTransport Inc.,http://westconnex.info128 Chalmers St Surry Hills 2010. Printed by EnviroPrint Australia Pty Ltd, 8 Ilma Street, Condell Park NSW 2200.TRANSCRIPT
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NoW Public Transport: www.westconnex.info
WestCONnex wont work!PUBLIC TRANSPORT WILLWestCONnex wont work!PUBLIC TRANSPORT WILL
NoW Public Transport: www.westconnex.info
WestCONnex is not the future we want!Authorised by Chris Elenor, NoWestCONnex PublicTransport Inc.,http://westconnex.info128 Chalmers St Surry Hills 2010. Printed by EnviroPrint Australia Pty Ltd, 8 Ilma Street, Condell Park NSW 2200.
Blue lines are the proposed WestConnex tunnels and roads (as of March 2015). Purple lines are roads which will be expanded to carry many more cars. The orange lines are the proposed Rozelle to Lane Cove tunnel to the north and the proposed F6 (M6) to Loftus in the south.Exit ramps, which expel the heaviest polluting particles, will occur at intervals of approximately 3.5 kilometres. The location of the polluting vents or smoke stacks with a polluting radius of between 12 kilometres will be determined by the contractors, based on cheapest cost and usually sited in parks and on hills. There would be a minimum of 5 smoke stacks, one in Bexley, one in Wolli Creek Valley Park, one in ODea Reserve or Camperdown Park, one in Lilyfield/Haberfield and one in Five Dock.
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WestCONnexONE BIG CON!NoW Public Transport: www.westconnex.infoTolled Tunnels to Traffic Jams
The two independent reports into the proposed $15.6 billion, 33 kilometre WestConnex City of Sydneys Strategic Review of the WestConnex Proposal (Feb 2015) and the Auditor Generals WestConnex: Assurance to Government (Dec 2014) both express serious concerns about the ability of the WestConnex tollway system to achieve its stated aims or meet Sydneys transport challenges. There will be no safe level of pollution from the exhaust stacks across the Inner West, and Governments own reports show Parramatta Road will get more traffic once tolls are reintroduced.It is residents of western Sydney who are most likely to be short-changed, with toll and parking costs of up to $48 predicted for a single trip. Thats $240 per week for a commuter who has no reliable access to public transport alternatives (City of Sydneys report).And then there are the tolls. Someone who currently drives from Penrith to the airport for free, using WestConnex, will pay $9 each way. Similarly, someone who currently drives from Campbelltown to the city and pays the $4.41 M5 toll, when WestConnex is built, will be paying about $10 a trip (Sydney Morning Herald 14/3/15).
What can you do?Does your local State politician or candidate support WestCONnex? Contact their office and let them know you dont!NSW Minister for Roads & Freight, Duncan Gay [email protected], T: 9230 2329 Member for Balmain, Jamie Parker jamie.parker@ parliament.nsw.gov.au, T: 9660 7586Labor candidate for Balmain, Verity Firth [email protected], Member for Heffron, Ron Hoenig [email protected] T: 9699 8166Member for Strathfield, Charles Casuscelli [email protected] T: 9747 1711Member for Drummoyne, John Sidoti [email protected], T: 9713 2999Labor candidate for Strathfield, Jodi McKay [email protected] candidate for Newtown, Jenny Leong [email protected], T: 9099 1077Labor candidate for Newtown, Penny Sharpe [email protected], T: 9230 2741Greens candidate for Summer Hill, Max Phillips [email protected], T: 0419 444 916Labor candidate for Summer Hill, Jo Haylen https://www.facebook.com/jo.haylen, T: 0417 114 404
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What are the positions of Liberal, Labor and the Greens on WestConnex?POLITICAL PARTY LIBERALS LABOR GREENS
Build the WestConnex Tollway using taxpayers money
YES YES NO
Bring Back Tolls to the M4 YES YES NOBuild Stage 1A Widening of M4 (Parramatta to Homebush) without the release of the detailed Business Case and without a Parliamentary Inquiry
YES YES NO
Extend WestConnex from Parramatta through to the CBD
NO YES NO
Cancel compulsory acquisitions of local homes and businesses
NO NO (only on
hold until route
finalised)
YES
Build the WestConnex M5 Duplication
YES YES (new route
to Port Botany
and Airport)
NO
Build the M4 to M5 tunnel YES NO NOBuild the St Peters Interchange YES NO NOSell the States electricity poles and wires to fund part of WestConnex
YES NO NO
Generate significantly more traffic congestion on Parramatta Rd, Victoria Rd, most main arterial roads, CBD and bring more traffic onto local roads by building Stage 1A.
YES YES NO
Bring stacks with 2km pollution radius to the Inner West
YES YES NO
Support transparency, public scrutiny of the detailed business case and an immediate Parliamentary Inquiry into WestConnex before any more taxpayers money is spent on it.
NO NO YES
Will proceed to override local planning controls and rezone parts of the Parramatta Road to higher densities without local council and community agreement
YES ???? NO
WestCONnex is not the future we want!Authorised by Chris Elenor, NoWestCONnex PublicTransport Inc.,http://westconnex.info128 Chalmers St Surry Hills 2010. Printed by EnviroPrint Australia Pty Ltd, 8 Ilma Street, Condell Park NSW 2200.