2. CBD CBD means Central Business District. It became the most accessible part of a town or city. Most of the rail routes met there so that is why it could easily be reached by people living throughout the urban area.
3. In Sidney CBD is the main commercial center. Its north-south axis runs from Circular Quay in the north to Central railway station in the south. It is the largest and busiest central business district in Australia.
4. Geography The Sydney CBD is an area of very densely concentratedskyscrapers and other buildings. The streets run on a slightly crooked grid pattern in the southern CBD, but in the older, northern CBD the streets form several intersecting grids. The CBD runs along two ridge lines below Macquarie Street and York Streets.
5. Governance The Sydney CBD falls under the authority ofthelocalgovernmentareaof the City of Sydney. TheNew SouthWales state government also has authority over some aspects of the CBD. This is a body charged with managing development of certain foreshore areas of Sydney.
6. Mainproblems the rail system is at capacity and the bus network is inefficient, noisy and slow long queues of crowded buses lack of the rail link between Parramatta and Epping, and the north-west and south-west end
7. FriendlySydney CBD make it safer and easier for pedestrians slowing down traffic to 40 km/h and light rail will go to the city centre people willmove around shopping, do their business, visit the city a make it a good place to be
8. Evaluation Goodpoints Bad points goodplansfor solutions good idea of using extensivemodelling to test a range of scenarios and identify the best solutions not enoughmoneyin the budget to start the project planschangedtoooften too much disscussion on newprojects make impossible to start them
