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The WestLine Partnership LIGHT RAIL FOR SYDNEY’S OLYMPIC CORRIDOR RESPONSE TO DELOITTE REPORT WESTMEAD – STRATHFIELD Restarting Sydney’s Heart Light Rail the Engine of Change Restarting Sydney’s Heart Light Rail the Engine of Change Examination of a Proposed Light Rail through the Olympic Corridor February 2015 THE OLYMPIC CORRIDOR Carlingford A40 A28 Westmead A40 WESTMEAD UWS HOSPITAL A40 VICTORIA ROAD UWS Meadowbank Rydalmere Parramatta A6 A3 Rosehill Camellia M4 Wentworth Rhodes The Situation ROSEHILL Point RACECOURSE The Western Sydney Light Rail network aims to provide Duck River an uplift in public transport capacity to help develop employment centres close to the homes of people in Western Sydney, and improve accessibility to emerging IKEA Newington growth centres. The NSW Government is currently considering Clyde A44 four new Western Sydney Light rail routes: ANZ STADIUM & RAS SHOWGROUND 1 — Parramatta to Olympic Park Concord West (along the Olympic Corridor) M4 PARRAMATTA ROAD 2 — Parramatta to Macquarie Park Carter St Olympic via Carlingford Park 3 — Parramatta to Castle Hill via Old Northern Road 4 — Parramatta to Bankstown FLEMINGTON MARKETS Flemington EAST—WEST ROUTE NORTH—SOUTH ROUTE A44 The Olympic Corridor Benefits of Light Rail Costs LIGHT RAIL Strathfield • Represents the geographic and • Contains hospitals, a central POTENTIAL• ROUTECould provide up to • A light rail trip from Parramatta to • For the purposes of the study, Deloitte • Even using the most conservative demographic centre of Sydney. business district, business parks, 108,000 jobs in The Corridor. Olympic Park will be around twice examined the possible development of application, if the State Government Begins at Westmead and Olympic legacy facilities, major as fast as existing public transport. a 7 km light rail link between Camellia were to apply this same Voluntary connects the Greater Parramatta foreshores, four university • Provides the ‘missing link’. and Olympic Park, using standard Planning Arrangement across the area with the Olympic peninsula, campuses, major stadiums, The current rail network does • Will service an area that has industry cost measurement, and wider Olympic Corridor it has the including Rhodes and Strathfield. national entertainment venues, not support a journey from already been earmarked for estimated it at between $210 m – capacity to raise $1.1 billion in private Legend and significant recreational Parramatta to Sydney Olympic development, including two of $420 million in capital costs. sector contributions. • Home to more than 120,000 open space. Park via Camellia. Sydney’s 13 Priority Precincts, Olympic Light Rail Corridor workers and two of Australia’s Carter Street and Wentworth • Deloitte also reviewed the developer/ • This would cover 100% of the capital top 20 economies. • Expected to deliver 6000 • The Corridor has the ability to Point. RMS partnership model employed cost for this light rail route as well as North South additional dwellings at Sydney accommodate almost a fifth of recently where the private sector make a significant contribution to the Corridor Olympic Park and 21,000 new required infill and a third of all • Is aligned with the NSW funded the entire development and cost of remediation of the Camellia Motorway dwellings in the Camellia precinct new jobs in Western Sydney Government’s strategic planning forward maintenance costs of the industrial precinct – making it a ‘no Major Road over the next 20 years. by 2036. policies, including its recent Plan Homebush Bay Bridge between cost to government’ infrastructure Sydney Harbour for Growing Sydney. Wentworth Point and Rhodes. project. Regional Parkland Why build the Olympic Corridor route as part of Stage 1 of the Western Sydney Light Rail Network? • Has the potential to accommodate almost a fifth • Will deliver significant and sustainable ‘smart jobs of required infill and a third of all new jobs in of the future’ to Western Sydney and attract global Western Sydney by 2036. investment to the region. • Through private sector support there is potential • Will deliver more potential jobs and new dwellings for two Western Sydney Light Rail lines to be built than Barangaroo, Bays Precinct, Green Square for one cost – because of the capacity to raise over and Central to Eveleigh combined. $1 billion from a Voluntary Planning Arrangement with private developers. • The Olympic Corridor is the only region in Metropolitan Sydney where high density residential • The light rail project is estimated to support development will be welcomed by the community 1800 to 4200 jobs during construction. and has the capacity to stimulate tourism, urban regeneration and environmental repair. • The Olympic Corridor link will see Camellia and Parramatta River foreshore cleaned up, Rosehill • The light rail could have the capacity to move Gardens Racecourse and Convention Centre 5000 passengers per hour in both directions upgraded, the Olympic Park legacy completed and through the Corridor. This is equivalent to University of Western Sydney campuses linked. 40 light rail services in place of 200 buses. The WestLine WestLine Partnership acknowledges the following supporters: AECOM, GJS, FDC Construction, Strathfield City Council, Partnership University of Western Sydney, Graf International, McCollough Robertson LIGHT RAIL FOR SYDNEY’S OLYMPIC CORRIDOR WestLine Partnership AUBURN CITY COUNCIL Many Cultures One Community is project managed by Taylor Street Advisory Contact Christopher Brown 0418 555 077 Taylor Street Advisory PO Box 218 Rozelle NSW 2039 taylorstreetadvisory.com STRATEGY | COMMUNICATIONS | ANALYSIS | ADVOCACY.
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