Stop the Sydney Metram: Cutting a swath through Surry Hills

Monday, 16 December 2013

Cutting a swath through Surry Hills

The tree loppers set to work in Devonshire Street on Saturday as scheduled. You can see the huge crane they were using in the pictures. It did not take them long to lop off branches then chop the trunk into segments.

The wood of the cottonwood poplars was perfectly fine as you can see, but it was chopped into segments and lifted into dumpsters. What a waste.

The wood could have been turned into timber and used to construct rickety pedestrian overpasses connecting the two Surry Hills ghettos; so the residents would not pollute the tramway of the superior race goers of Randwick with their corpses.

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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.