The NSW State Government is building the WestConnex toll road*: a 33km road around Sydney that will destroy neighbourhoods, waste taxpayer funds, cost families money, increase pollution and not fix our city’s traffic congestion problems!
The WestConnex proposal involves:
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Duplicating M4 lanes from Parramatta to Homebush (Stage 1: construction from early 2015)
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Constructing a tunnel from Homebush to Haberfield (Stage 1: construction from mid-2016)
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Duplicating the M5 East (Stage 2: construction from 2016) and
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Constructing a tunnel between Haberfield and St Peters (Stage 3: construction from late 2018).
The WestConnex toll road is the latest incarnation of the previously shelved M4 East and M5 expansions which the local community fought so hard to stop.**
We must stop the WestConnex toll road from carving up our communities and streets and harming our quality of life.
The WestConnex toll road will:
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waste more than $60 billion on roads, when $10 billion could create enough public transport to meet all of Sydney’s needs for decades
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increase traffic on local feeder roads
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Increase traffic on local roads as drivers circumvent tolls.
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increase toxic air pollution and smoke stacks in suburbs
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increase truck movements through the inner west to Port Botany
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create havoc for years during construction
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increase the tolls you pay by 4% every year
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delay long overdue investment in better integrated public transport
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induce traffic, locking Sydney into decades of car dependence
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increase greenhouse gas emissions contributing to climate change
- do nothing to reduce traffic congestion in the medium to long term
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