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Transport Plan 2010
I got a letter
in today's Herald about my lack of faith in the delivery of this
North-West metro the NSW government is promising. The bit they
chopped off was: You'd be hard pressed to find Action for Transport
2010 on any NSW government web site. Now why do you think that might
be?
Thanks to the legends at the National Library of Australia,
I've managed to find it. That's right, you can see Action
for Transport 2010 in all its undelivered glory.
A quick run through press
release confirms what I said.
- AIRPORT RAIL LINK
- Opened on time, but due to exorbitant prices, patronage has been
well down. If you live anywhere in the inner West, it's much faster
and cheaper to catch a cab.
- BONDI BEACH RAIL LINK
- Killed. Bondi NIMBYs didn't want bogans from the Western
Suburbs competing for space with Eastern Suburbs bogans, plus the
important point that it was going to be a privatised railway, with
associated huge ticket increases
- PARRAMATTA RAIL LINK
- Only got halfway, Chatswood to Epping, which completely defeated
the purpose of allowing passengers from the Western Suburbs to get
to major trip generators like Macquarie University and the growing
North Ryde technology parks.
- EPPING TO CASTLE HILL LINE
- Never built. This new promised metro effectively re-announces
it, but work won't start until 2010 which according to this press
release was when it would be open.
- HURSTVILLE TO STRATHFIELD RAIL LINK
- Sunk without trace.
- LIVERPOOL 'Y' LINK
- Never heard of again.
- LIVERPOOL TO PARRAMATTA TRANSITWAY
- Built. But just remember, this is a glorified bus lane.
- BLACKTOWN - WETHERILL PARK TRANSITWAY
- Still on the drawing board, despite the touted 2006 opening
date.
- PARRAMATTA - BLACKTOWN TRANSITWAY
- Still on the drawing board, despite the touted 2004 opening
date
- BLACKTOWN - CASTLE HILL TRANSITWAY
- Still on the drawing board, despite the touted 2009 opening
date
- PARRAMATTA - ROUSE HILL (MUNGERIE PARK) TRANSITWAY
- Opened in March 2007, which is actually ahead of the
schedule they set
- PARRAMATTA - STRATHFIELD TRANSITWAY
- Still on the drawing board, despite the touted 2002 opening
date
- PENRITH TO ST MARYS TRANSITWAY
- Still on the drawing board, despite the touted 2008 opening
date
- EASTERN DISTRIBUTOR
- Built.
- M5 EAST
- Built.
- WESTERN SYDNEY ORBITAL
- Built.
- M2 TO GORE HILL
- Built.
- METROAD 7 (CUMBERLAND HIGHWAY)
- Built.
- CROSS CITY TUNNEL
- Built, gona broke.
- PARRAMATTA ROAD
- Built, still a nightmare road.
- PRINCES HIGHWAY
- Built, still a nightmare road.
- VICTORIA ROAD
- Built, still congested.
- MILITARY ROAD
- Partially built
- TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
- Built. Didn't help congestion.
So do you see the pattern? All the road projects got built. A
couple of the public transport project got built, partically, and
mostly with private money.
20 Mar 2008 11:40 [category: /politix]
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