On 27 July 2016, City of Sydney council held a public meeting to update the community on WestCONnex and the Central to Eveleigh project. Here's the presentation made by Melanie Fyfe, Senior Project Manager, on the devastating impact WestCONnex will have on the city and surrounds.

1. City of Sydney
WestConnex
update
27 July 2016
Melanie Fyfe
Senior Project Manager

2. Stage 3 -
M4-M5 Link
Stage 2 -
New M5
Stage 1 -
M4 East
and
widening
Cost $16.8bn
Parramatta
Sydney
Olympic
Park
Concord
Haberfield Rozelle
CBD
Camperdown
St Peters
Sydney
Airport
Port Botany
Beverley Hills

3. Stage 1a: M4 Widening
$497m cost
In construction – opens early 2017
Concord
Haberfield
This shows
the M4
widening at
James
Ruse Drive,
Parramatta
Parramatta

4. Stage 1b: M4 East
$3.8b cost
In construction – opens 2019
Tolls reintroduced
Haberfield
Parramatta
Concord

5. Stage 2: New M5
St Peters
Airport & Port
$4.3b cost
In construction – opens 2019
Beverley Hills

6. Green Square
AlexandriaNewtown
St Peters
Rosebery
Beaconsfield
St Peters
Interchange
Sydney Park

7. Ventilation Stacks
(for Stage 3)
Ventilation Stacks
(for Stage 2)
To Euston & Campbell Roads
St Peters Interchange will
deliver 38,700 extra vehicles
per day
Princes Hwy
To Gardeners Road
New M5 tunnels

8. Ashmore
Where will the traffic go?
To the Eastern suburbs
To the CBD
To the CBD
and Green
Square
To Mascot
To Newtown
To the Eastern suburbs
Alexandria
Green Square

9. Where will the traffic go?EUSTON RD
Traffic now: 7,610
vehicles per day
WestConnex:
60,290
Extra: 52,680
O’RIORDAN ST
Traffic now:
38,360 vehicles
per day
WestConnex:
41,900
Extra: 3,540
BOTANY RD
Traffic now:
28,330 vehicles
per day
WestConnex:
36,800
Extra: 8,470

10. Euston Rd
Mature
paperbarks
cut down
Road widening from 2 to 6 lanes
Sydney Park

11. Euston Rd
That’s 8x more traffic than today
Traffic now = 7,610 vehicles per day
With WestConnex = 60,290 vehicles

12. Euston Road
traffic flows into
Ashmore &
Green Square
towards CBD &
Eastern Suburbs
WestConnex
widening
finishes
here
The traffic goes…?
Alexandria
Green Square
Ashmore
Redfern
Surry Hills
Rosebery
Moore Park

13. Baseline
screenline total
= 73,590
2021
Maddox St/Euston Rd
At 37,000 extra vehicles per day,
that’s over 2.5x more traffic
Traffic now = 23,000 vehicles per day
With WestConnex = 60,000

14. Euston Road near
Fountain Street

15. Campbell Rd
Traffic now = 11,500 vehicles per day
With WestConnex = ???
Volumes not known, but six lanes in design

16. Campbell Rd
Trees cut down
~100 properties demolished
Road widening from 2 to 6 lanes
New bridge over Alexandra Canal
Sydney Park

17. Stage 3: M4-M5 Link $7.25b cost
In planning – due to open 2023
Environmental Impact
Statement – early 2017
St Peters
Camperdown
Rozelle
Haberfield
CBD

18. Rozelle Interchange
An extra 50,500 vehicles per
day onto streets
Ventilation
stacks?
Victoria Rd
The Crescent

19. Anzac Bridge
An extra 56,450 vehicles per day on the bridge
with WestConnex
Current traffic = 142,710
vehicles per day

20. Camperdown portals
?

21. An extra 38,300 vehicles per
day from the portals
Portals facing CBD only
Arundel Street

22. Broadway and Parramatta Road (east end)
Place-making
transformation
is occurring
here right now
Traffic now = about 38,000 vehicles per
day
With WestConnex = about
76,000
That is almost double the
current traffic at Broadway

23. Western Harbour
Tunnel & Beaches Link
Sydney
Gateway to
Airport & Port
Southern
Extension
Future connections
Cost?
Opens 2023
Iron Cove
connection?

24. City of Sydney policies and
programs
• Sustainable Sydney 2030
• Connecting our City
• Liveable Green Network
• Car Share
• Cycling Strategy and Action Plan
• Green Streets
• Urban Forest Strategy
• Social Sustainability Strategy
• 100 Resilient Cities (member)
NSW Government policies and
programs
• City Centre Access Strategy
• Sydney’s Walking Future
• Sydney’s Cycling Future
• Sydney’s Bus Future
• Sydney’s Rail Future
• Travel Choices
• Active Transport Program
WestConnex Impact
Existing policies & programs to
improve liveability