Western Harbour Tunnel and Beaches Link Fact Sheet Flat Rock Drive
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Fact sheet September 2018 Beaches Link Flat Rock Drive Beaches Link is an integrated Should the NSW Government decide The sites aim to: transport solution that will make to proceed further with the proposal, it will be subject to a rigorous and • Minimise private property impacts it easier, faster and safer to get extensive environmental assessment • Minimise impacts to the around Sydney. – including more community community and the environment • Have good main road or water This new tunnel from the Northern engagement. access – keeping trucks off local Beaches, under Middle Harbour, streets Northbridge and Willoughby will Construction sites are • Maintain functionality of open connect with the Warringah and Gore temporary space as much as possible Hill Freeways – delivering widespread Temporary construction sites are • Provide opportunities for traffic benefits and improving journey needed to deliver this project and we improvement of the sites times. will be working with councils and local after construction It will reduce pressure on key routes communities to identify their future • Ensure the works can be including Willoughby Road, Reserve use when work is complete. delivered safely and efficiently. Road, Flat Rock Drive, Eastern Valley Construction sites have been These measures ensure the project Way and Ourimbah Road. This will carefully selected taking into account can be delivered effectively while improve these routes for users and community and industry feedback. minimising construction times and will also reduce rat running, returning levels of impact to communities, the local streets to local people. road network and the environment. Beaches Link benefits public transport across the Northern Beaches, the Davidson Northern Beaches North Shore, North Sydney and Hospital Warringah Road around the CBD by opening up new Frenchs Forest Dee Why express bus connections between the Frenchs Forest Northern Beaches, North Sydney, the Mona Vale Narrabeen Terrey Hills CBD, Macquarie Park and Chatswood. Forestville Brookvale Wakehurst Parkway It also offers the opportunity for bus Allambie Heights interchanges with Sydney Trains and Curl Curl Sydney Metro at North Sydney. Killarney Heights Manly Brookvale Freshwater Dee Why We also expect improved efficiencies Lindfield Queenscli to surface bus routes when traffic Roseville North Balgowlah is redirected off surface roads and e Castle Cove ridg B ation nt evi r D Condamine St into the new Beaches Link Tunnel via u k B e e r C Middle Cove an upgraded Wakehurst Parkway at Middle Chatswood Harbour Manly Seaforth and the Burnt Bridge Creek Sydney Road Castlecrag Deviation at Balgowlah. Seaforth Balgowlah Lane Cove Tunnel Spit Bridge Beaches Link will be in deep tunnels M2 NorthConnex M7 (75 metres beneath Bicentennial Balgowlah Heights Artarmon Reserve at Willoughby and over 100 Gore Hill Freeway Northbridge metres beneath Northbridge). There Reserve Sydney CBD Road North Sydney Airport will be no permanent facilities such as Parramatta tunnel ventilation outlets away from Royal North Cammeray Shore Hospital the tunnel entry and exit points. Ernest St St Leonards Mosman Falcon St Crows Nest Cremorne The proposed reference design is t Legend Neutral Bay currently available for community Miller S Beaches Link Motorways Berry St 0 1km 2km N input until Friday 9 November. Berry St Wakehurst Parkway Upgrade Major roads North Watsons Bay Sydney Northern Beaches Hospital roadworksCremorneHigh St Point High St Waverton Legend 0 1km 2km Beaches Link Northern Beaches Hospital roadworksSydney Motorways N Birchgrove Harbour Wakehurst Parkway Upgrade Bridge Sydney Major roads Harbour Tunnel Proposed Flat Rock Drive construction site options ad y Way o Shore School e Playing Fields Alpha R EasternSailors Vall Bay Road Artarmon Road d d a o S R t r a y y t b h h Hallstrom a g l l u G Park e o o n r l e l H i ill A F W Option r Option v e A e ew B n u a F e y l a t R o c k D N r i v e e Munro Park t e e r t S k Beaches Link (tunnel) o Proposed construction site option A o r Proposed construction site option B B We need a primary (temporary) Reducing our impact - Option A Reducing our impact - Option B tunnelling site south of Middle • We will work with Willoughby • Impact on bushland is limited to an Harbour to tunnel north, south Council and local sports clubs to area that has been re-vegetated by and west from the site. minimise the impact on sporting Willoughby Council over the past activities in the area while the 20 years The options are: baseball diamond is unavailable • Old growth bushland will not be Option A is at the current Flat Rock during construction impacted Baseball Diamond, west of Flat Rock • No impact to Willoughby Leisure • Shared user path to be Drive. Centre indoor facilities, netball re-routed and remain open courts or car park Option B is east of Flat Rock Drive in during construction an area re-vegetated by Willoughby • Shared user path remains open for • Opportunity to provide new Council over the past 20 years. the duration of construction recreation facilities, or re-vegetate • Opportunity for major the site after construction refurbishment of the area following Construction site activities • We will work with Willoughby construction Council on the final form of the site • Entry site for roadheader • Single large site in a strategic in consultation with residents and tunnelling machines tunnelling location reduces the need for the community north, south and west additional intermediate sites • Tunnel fit-out • No impact to baseball diamond, • Allows safe, signalised road access Willoughby Leisure Centre indoor • Tunnel spoil removal by truck directly onto Flat Rock Drive to facilities, netball courts or car park directly onto Flat Rock Drive to keep trucks off local streets the Warringah Freeway • Single large site in strategic • No direct impact to private location reduces the need for • There would be a large noise and properties additional intermediate sites dust acoustic shed with all tunnel • Acoustic shed for tunnelling works • Allows safe, signalised road access spoil management contained to contain noise and dust. inside it. This is standard practice directly onto Flat Rock Drive to There will be strict controls on trucks on modern major tunnelling sites keep trucks off local streets travelling to and from the site. Truck • No direct impact to private • Parking and amenities for movements will generally be limited properties construction workers would be to 7am - 6pm Monday to Friday and contained on-site, with no worker 7am - 1pm Saturdays. No trucks on • Acoustic shed for tunnelling works parking on surrounding streets. Sundays or public holidays. to contain noise and dust. Environmental safeguards Environmental Impact Local benefits of Beaches The project team understands Statement Link and Western Harbour community concerns and Once we have received community Tunnel environmental sensitivities and stakeholder feedback on the Taking traffic off some of Sydney’s associated with the Flat Rock Creek proposed reference design we will most congested roads will have local and surrounding bushland. refine the design and prepare the benefits: EIS for public exhibition. In regards to the two options: • Less traffic on key local roads – The EIS exhibition and the • The creek and downstream areas Flat Rock Drive, Eastern Valley accompanying community Way and Miller Street will be protected submissions process will be • Greater resilience to incidents and • Site works will be controlled conducted independently by DPE. delays on North Shore roads through well-understood, best The EIS will include a comprehensive practice environmental procedures • Reduced rat-running on local assessment of key environmental including water run off, erosion streets issues, including a description of the and sedimentation controls • Improved travel times via surface existing environment, assessment of road network • Site will be limited to the regrowth potential direct and indirect impacts area located on man-made landfill of the project from construction • Better amenity of Naremburn, • Old growth areas will not be through to operation. Northbridge and Crows Nest impacted and will be specifically • Continuous southbound bus lane This assessment will include any and protected – for example the on the Warringah Freeway to all impacts on local flora and fauna, steeper slope running to the east rail and Metro stations at North water quality, traffic, spoil transport, of the existing creek Sydney and for the Sydney noise and vibration, air quality and Harbour Bridge providing faster, • Access off Flat Rock Drive will community impacts. be via a new intersection with more reliable bus trips Should the proposal be approved by turning bays and controlled by • Western Harbour Tunnel takes the Minister for Planning, DPE will traffic signals pressure off existing crossings – impose a series of conditions which faster and more reliable trips • High level screening of the site will require us to eliminate, manage • Under Option A, future from a biodiversity and heritage or mitigate impacts. perspective has been undertaken opportunity for major and further studies would refurbishment of the area be conducted as part of an • Under Option B, opportunity to Environmental Impact Statement leave a permanent, positive legacy (EIS) − We will work with Willoughby • Major activity and spoil transfer Council on possible plans for will be inside the acoustic shed – this site in consultation with the greatly reducing noise and dust local community • Any contaminated materials in − The impact on bushland is existing man-made fill will be limited to the area re-vegetated assessed and treated via stringent over the past 20 years environmental management − We could leave our acoustic methods shed on site to be re-purposed • Should the project receive as an indoor multi-use sports planning approval by the facility – with extra outdoor Department of Planning and sports areas such as netball Environment (DPE), there would courts or an open playing field be stringent environmental − Construction site parking could safeguards to protect these areas.