Autumn 2019

Sydney Gateway Community Update

We are moving forward with planning Airport for Sydney Gateway - a new toll-free connnection from the Sydney motorway network at St Peters Interchange to ’s International and Domestic terminals. It will make journeys from west and south-west Sydney to Sydney Airport easier, faster and safer.

This community update provides information about: • why we need Sydney Gateway • how you can provide feedback during our consultation period • how it will improve travel on Sydney roads • the planning processes required.

Your feedback matters Why we need Sydney Gateway Over the past nine months we have met with local communities about this city The NSW Government’s vision for Sydney is shaping project. one of an integrated road and public transport network that gives you the freedom to choose We are now inviting your feedback on how and when you get around, no matter where Sydney Gateway’s concept design from you live and work. To achieve this vision, we 27 May to 21 June 2019. Come along to our are building Sydney Gateway, to complete the various information and drop in sessions missing links in the motorway network, improve in Mascot, Tempe and Wolli Creek to have traffic flow and reduce travel times. your say, and questions answered. This high capacity motorway network is vital To find out more about Sydney Gateway for supporting the growth of our communities, and where to meet the project team, or to places and economy. Sydney Gateway will submit your comments online please visit: greatly improve the way you travel to Sydney rms.nsw.gov.au/sydneygatewayportal Airport. Importantly, it will also return local Your feedback is important and will help us streets to the communities in Mascot by to deliver a project that helps address your allowing 10,000 trucks and up to 100,000 needs and supports future growth. vehicles a day to travel on Sydney Gateway. NORTH WEST PRIORITY LAND RELEASE AREA

Penrith Travel time savings during the morning peak Benefits for Sydney M7 M2

Ryde to Fast facts Easier M4 International terminal Travel time saving of Chatswood • Easier journeys to and from Sydney Airport M4 up to 27 minutes via New M4 sets of traffic lights and improved connections between WESTERN SYDNEY Rozelle to 26 EMPLOYMENT Ryde Domestic terminal bypassed from Parramatta the terminals AREA Silverwater to Silverwater Travel time saving of • New roads to Sydney Airport to transport Travel time saving of up to 19 minutes to Sydney Airport’s 100,000 vehicles a day to cater for forecast up to 30 minutes via New M4 Domestic precinct via New M4 growth in passenger and air freight Haberfield to using the Sydney motorway network International terminal Rozelle • Reduced congestion by widening Qantas Drive Travel time saving of Haberfield

from two to three lanes in each direction M12 up to 30 minutes Sydney via New M4 CBD • Improved access to all airport terminals Bankstown to for over-height vehicles with an increased Western A dedicated Sydney Domestic terminal 500 Travel time saving of clearance of up to 5.1 metres (from 4.3 metres) Airport ED metre ‘flyover’ road M7 up to 22 minutes Bankstown • Improved traffic flow in Mascot. WESTERN SYDNEY via New M5 to Sydney Airport’s PRIORITY GROWTH AREA Domestic precinct Moorebank M5

Mascot Faster Moorebank to SOUTH WEST Port Botany • Improved travel times to the airport precinct PRIORITY GROWTH AREA Travel time saving of and Port Botany. up to 20 minutes via New M5 Port Botany Enabling 10,000 heavy Safer vehicles per day to Around 50% • Reduced cars and trucks on local roads – travel on Sydney of port-bound returning local streets to local communities Campbelltown to Domestic terminal Gateway rather heavy vehicles • Reduced heavy vehicles and cars on major Travel time saving of up to 22 minutes than through local will use Sydney roads including: via New M5 Cronulla Mascot roads Gateway by 2036 àà

àà King Georges Road Campbelltown àà M5 East tunnel.

Sydney Port Botany Mascot Investing in the future Airport Freight volumes in NSW and Botany By 2056, there will be more than 12 million A key element of the broader transport strategy will increase by 28 per cent Currently more than The suburbs and people that call home. This is Sydney Gateway. by 2036. 150,000 people visit communities surrounding growth means there will be more motorists Sydney Airport is Australia’s busiest airport and Sydney Airport every day, o 50 per cent increase in Sydney Airport are and commuters on our roads travelling to Port Botany is one of the highest frequency with around 75 per cent Greater Sydney changing, with major new destinations throughout Sydney CBD and the travelling by road. residential apartment freight terminals, serving state, national and o 12 per cent increase in Greater Sydney area. buildings, commercial sites international markets. Sydney Gateway will It is expected the number regional NSW and hotels. Transport for NSW’s Future Transport Strategy greatly improve access to this important precinct. of visitors will increase NSW Ports forecasts that 2056 provides a 40-year vision for our transport from 44.4 million in 2018 This development has Sydney Gateway will strengthen Sydney’s container freight handled by system. The strategy outlines a vision, strategic to 65.6 million by 2039. added more vehicles onto position as a global city, providing more efficient Port Botany will increase by directions and customer outcomes, with the busy roads around connections to major business hubs, key Air freight will also grow by 77 per cent, from 14 mega infrastructure and services underpinning the Sydney Airport and commercial centres and freight terminals across 58 per cent to one million tonnes per annum (mtpa) delivery of these directions across the state. Port Botany. Greater Sydney. tonnes by 2039. All air in 2016 to 25 mtpa in 2036. The strategy focuses on the role of transport freight cargo carried to Currently eight out of 10 in delivering movement and place outcomes and from Sydney Airport containers are carried to that support the character of the places and travels by road. Port Botany by road. communities we want for the future.

2 Community Update 2019 Community Update 2019 3 Sydney Gateway concept design M4-M5 Link Tunnels Sydney Gateway will provide toll-free connections to Opening 2023 Sydney Airport’s Domestic and International terminals. M4 City West Parramatta Blacktown

Sydenham

Alexandra Canal Sydenham St Peters Interchange Opening 2020

M5 Liverpool Campbelltown

New M5 Tunnels Canal Road Opening 2020

4 Gardeners Road Bellevue Street 1 4 Alternative shared cycle and Connection to St Peters pedestrian pathway Interchange and beyond

Bourke Street New alternative cycle and pedestrian A four-lane raised road in each pathway to connect from Alexandra direction with bridges to cross Canal Canal to Mascot at Coward Street. Tempe Mascot Road and the freight rail line. Alexandra Canal Coward Street

Botany Street Tempe 2 5 Connection to the Widening of Qantas Drive 2 International terminal Widened from two-lanes to three-lanesMascot in each direction to A four-lane road in each 1 Qantas Drive reduce congestion. direction with two bridges over Nigel Love Bridge 5 Alexandra Canal. Tempe Wetlands 3 Airport Drive Mascot Tempe 3 dog park 6 New Link Road New elevated road or ‘flyover’

This new airport freight access route Tempe The ‘flyover’ will separate vehicles will provide connections to Link Road Reserve travelling to the Domestic terminals O’Riordan Street following closure of Airport Drive. from traffic heading towards Port Sydney Airport Botany and Southern Cross Drive. This will enable travel from St Peters Interchange to the Domestic SYDNEY Joyce Drive

DOMESTIC terminals without stopping at a Existing Link Road Link Existing SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT single traffic light. Wolli Alexandra Canal AIRPORT Terminals 2 & 3 6 Creek Terminal 1

Giovanni Bridge 0 1km

Proposed road route shown.

4 Community Update 2019 Community Update 2019 5 How we have responded to your feedback Preparing planning approvals for Sydney Gateway

Based on your feedback we have refined Sydney shared cycle and pedestrian pathways while we Sydney Gateway passes through both Sydney The state process requires the document to be Gateway’s concept design, taking the following build Sydney Gateway. Airport land, owned by the Commonwealth, on public exhibition for a minimum of 28 calendar into consideration. and land under the jurisdiction of NSW. As a days. The length of exhibition is determined by We are also working with Transport for NSW result, it is subject to two planning processes DPE. Submissions are made to DPE. Parking – we will ensure parking spaces to look at opportunities to improve options for under NSW and Commonwealth legislation - an for construction vehicles are available within pedestrians and cyclists in the precinct. Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and a The Commonwealth process requires the Sydney Gateway construction sites. Major Development Plan (MDP). document to be on display for a minimum of Noise – noise walls will be explored in 60 business days. Submissions are made to Shared cycle and pedestrian pathways some areas of Tempe and Mascot. We will work The combined EIS and MDP will be placed on Sydney Airport. – we thank you for your feedback about the with residents to minimise impacts. public exhibition, where you will be able to need to keep a canal-side shared cycle and make a submission to the NSW Department of Advertisements will be placed in local Open space – we are committed to pedestrian pathway, and we have been working Planning and Environment (DPE), and newspapers with details of the exhibition, improving open space on Tempe Lands after closely with Sydney Airport to develop a Sydney Airport. including the consultation events and where practical option for a northern canal route. construction. We will work with the Inner West you can view the combined EIS and MDP. All Council and the local community to develop a The document outlines the key features of the submissions received will be provided to and We invite you to provide us with your feedback Landscape Plan. project and assesses its potential environmental considered by Roads and Maritime and the on this route to help further inform our design. and social impacts during construction and proposed project adjusted as required. We value your ideas and input into this process. operation. Details of how potential impacts will We will be providing temporary routes during be managed will be provided. For further information on the planning approval construction so you will still be able to use process visit: rms.nsw.gov.au/sydneygateway

NSW process

State Significant Infrastructure Application with scoping report

Secretary’s Environmental Assessment Requirements (SEARs) issued Commonwealth process

WE ARE Prepare Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Prepare draft Major Development Plan (MDP) HERE

Publicly exhibit EIS (28 calendar days) Publicly exhibit draft MDP (60 business days)

Prepare submissions/preferred infrastructure report (if required) Consider submissions and update draft MDP

Submit submissions/preferred infrastructure report to Department of Planning and Environment (DPE) Submit draft MDP to Australian Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development

Assessment by DPE and recommendation to NSW Minister for Planning Decision by Australian Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development

6 Community Update 2019 Community Update 2019 7 Have your say We would like to hear your feedback on the Post your comments Sydney Gateway concept design, and to discuss the issues that you would like us to on our online ‘have consider further. your say’ map via From 27 May to 21 June 2019, we will be door knocking, and hosting community information our portal drop-in sessions and information booths in Visit our interactive online portal to view Tempe, Mascot, Botany, and Wolli Creek. You Sydney Gateway’s key features at can find out more, meet the Sydney Gateway rms.nsw.gov.au/sydneygatewayportal team and provide comments at the sessions Our online portal will give you a snapshot detailed below. of Sydney Gateway, its new connections to Sydney Airport and how to use this new road. Where you can find us

Information sessions • Saturday 1 June 1pm - 4pm Clock On/Off Café, Tempe • Thursday 6 June 8am - 11am Patchett’s Pies, Mascot • Thursday 13 June 4pm - 7pm Rowers on Cook, Wolli Creek

Information booths • Friday 31 May 10am - 1pm East Village Shopping Centre • Wednesday 5 June 10am - 1.30pm Mascot Woolworths What to do when you login to the portal: • Saturday 8 June 9am - 12pm 1. Check out Sydney Gateway’s key features Wolli Creek Housing Complex 2. Plot your feedback on our online ‘have your say’ map. (opposite train station)

We look forward to meeting you and answering your questions about Sydney Gateway.

Community drop in session, Tempe Contact the Sydney Gateway team rms.nsw.gov.au/sydneygatewayportal rms.nsw.gov.au/sydneygateway [email protected] 1800 654 446 Roads and Maritime Services Locked Bag 928, North Sydney NSW 2059

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