Stop the Sydney Metram: Not In My Back Yard

Tuesday 11 June 2013

Not In My Back Yard

The route of the tram lines quite literally passes through the back yards of the three-storey apartment block called Olivia Gardens. A resident was mowing his back lawn when I took these photos. The Deputy Director General of TfNSW Chris Lock told the Surry Hills forum that the Department was still working on alignments and he would not say if all the apartments would be demolished. If they were not demolished they would presumably be added to the large stocks of public housing in this area of Surry Hills. The future of Surry Hills remains in the balance to this day.

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"It is our view light rail down George Street does not work remotely well as a mass transit activity."

Infrastructure NSW was able to make an expert assessment of the proposed light rail route and made that damning assessment.

The modeling disclosed in glossy brochures for the Proposal is infantile and deliberately deceptive.

Alternative routes for light rail were not mathematically modeled and were set up to fail. These were presented to a "Round Table" of "stakeholders" who did not have the qualifications to assess them and were dismissed for spurious and trivial reasons.

We are asking the State Government to set up an Expert Group to properly assess the light rail alternatives for the Sydney CBD before embarking on a project that will have irreversible consequences, and to publish the results.

There is one, at least one, route for light rail (the most obvious route of all) that was not even put up for consideration by the "Round Table" and which ticks all of Nick Greiner's boxes. The Government has been made aware of this route.

This blog will expose the obvious flaws and the devastating consequences of the "Project".

The Blog will place the obvious route for extending light rail in Sydney in the Public Domain and will open up discussion on this and other alternative routes.