Transcript – Western Sydney Infrastructure Plan – M12 Preferred Corridor
Time Visual Voice Over 00:03 Map of Sydney, camera moves across (Background music) the map from East to West. Key locations are marked on the map: “Sydney CBD”; “Sydney Airport”; “Parramatta”; and “Liverpool”
00:04 A box out lines the project area and the As part of the Australian and NSW governments' $3.6 title “Western Sydney Infrastructure billion Western Sydney Infrastructure Plan… Plan” appears.
00:10 A blue area appears on screen between Roads and Maritime is planning the M12 Motorway the M7 and The Northern Road; Suburb Project. names are shown for North to South: Penrith, Eastern Creek, Badgerys Creek, Leppington, Narellan and Campbelltown. The camera zooms in on the labelled “M12 Motorway, study area”
00:16 The roads on either side of the study Connecting the M7 Motorway near Cecil Hills to The are glow; onscreen labels appear Northern Road near Luddenham, this proposed locating: “M7 Motorway, near Cecil motorway… Hills” and “The Northern Road, near Luddenham” The area glows and a label stretches across it reading “New motorway”
00:22 On screen info graphic showing traffic …would deliver vital direct access and traffic capacity and label “Vital access and capacity for for the proposed western Sydney airport at Badgerys the planned airport”; The boundary for Creek, as well as providing increased road capacity for the airport is shown and labelled: future growth and development in western Sydney. “Plannedwestern Sydney airport at Badgerys Creek”
00:34 Info graphics showing the project life As part of early investigations, a general study area was cycle are shown, all fade away except established and presented to the public in July 2015. the first icon: a magnifying glass titled: “Scoping and investigation”; the study area glows and is labelled: “A general study area was established”
00:40 The label changes to “Long list of route Based on community feedback, input from options shortlisted to most feasible” government agencies and further investigations, Label fades and each option is Roads and Maritime developed a long list of fifteen highlighted on screen in corresponding corridor route options. We refined this list to eight option ‘colours’ from right to left: shortlisted corridor route options and presented “Aqua, Blue, Green, Orange, Pink, these to the community for feedback in February White and Yellow” 2016.
00:59 The highlighted route colours fade on During the consultation period, Roads and Maritime top of one another. A new label received more than 120 submissions from the appears with a ‘speech bubble icon’ community with the majority indicating a preference which reads “120+ community submissions”; all options fade leaving for the orange route option. the orang option on screen
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01:10 The label fades and all options reappear In consideration of the feedback received and in on screen. The camera pushes in on the consultation with Australian and NSW government western side where the new M12 and agencies, Roads and Maritime made a number of The Norther Road would connect in refinements to the eight shortlisted corridor route future. The possible connections are options which included new connections to The highlighted. Northern Road to better cater to current and future land uses and connections with future transport projects in the area.
01:32 Labels and tick boxes appear reading The modified options were then assessed against a “Assessment criteria including: set of criteria such as community impact,
community impact, environment and environment and heritage impact, land use,
heritage impact, land use, connectivity and constructability.
connectivity, constructability”
01:42 The label remains and all options fade Based on this assessment, six of the eight options leaving only the ‘Modified yellow & were discarded, leaving the modified orange and orange options’ visible. Both highlight yellow corridor route options. and glow.
01:50 The camera pushes on the eastern side To finalise the process, a number of design changes of the proposed alignment. The were recommended to minimise impacts to the footprints are highlighted and labels recreational facilities located in the Western Sydney are shown: “Wylde Bike Trail” and Parklands. “Sydney International Shooting Centre” (tree icon and parkland footprint appears on map).
02:00 The camera pulls out to reveal the full These changes were then assessed against the same option length. The yellow option fades set of criteria used to evaluate the modified route away and the Orange remains with the options. Based on this assessment, the modified label “Modified orange option | orange option was selected as the preferred corridor
Preferred corridor route” route.
02:11 Additional labels appear “16km in The modified orange corridor route is 16km in
length” and “300m alignment length and falls within a 300-metre wide corridor corridor” inside the project study area.
02:20 This would be reduced to 100-150 metres during the The labels fade and are replaced with preliminary design process, which would reduce “100-150 metres during impacts to the community and the environment. preliminary design”; labels fade again
and are replaced with “reduced
impacts on the community and
environment”
The motorway would include key interchanges and The label fades and is replaced with 02:31 connections, including: “Key connections along the
motorway”
…a new interchange location for the M12 and M7 The label fades and new labels appear 02:37 motorways south of Elizabeth Drive, and an at-grade at the eastern “Connects with the M7 connection to The Northern Road; at a new interchange south of
Elizabeth Drive” and the western “a
new at grade connection to The
Northern Road“ side of corridor.
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02:43 The labels fade and new marker and … a new grade separated interchange allowing label appear “New grade separated direct access to the planned western Sydney airport interchange for direct access to at Badgerys Creek. airport site.”
02:49 The labels fade and new marker and …a possible future grade separated interchange label appear “Possible future near Mamre Road and Devonshire Road. interchange near Mamre Road and
Devonshire Roads.”
The labels fade and the ‘zones’ glow for The modified orange corridor route would pass to 02:56 right to left across the screen the north of the Elizabeth Drive landfill facility and highlighting each. A label appears avoid existing established areas where possible. marking the “Passes north of the land
fill site” and “Passes north of Blackford
Hill”
The on screen labels change tor the 03:06 The M12 Motorway will improve road safety by following with supporting infographics providing a wide central median to separate A traffic light: “improve road safety” A opposing traffic flows, increase pedestrian and separated median: “Wide central cyclist infrastructure and improve freight movement median to separate traffic” A to key commercial centres. pedestrian and cycle icon: “Increase
pedestrian and cyclist infrastructure”
and A heavy vehicle icon: “Improve
freight movement
The icons and text change to the 03:18 It would provide increased road capacity for future following: An intersection icon: growth and development in western Sydney, with “Improved connectivity”, A city icon: capacity for up to six lanes and reduce the cost “increased capacity for future impact of congestion to the community and growth” Three arrows pointing north and there pointing south: “Capacity businesses. for up to six lanes” and several car icon: “Reduce the cost impact of congestion”
03:41 The camera pulls back from the map to reveal the map on a laptop viewing the For the latest project information you can download Roads and Maritime website. the community update, M12 Preferred Corridor On screen graphic “Community update Route Summary Report and a detailed report from newsletter” On screen graphic changes the Roads and Maritime Services website. to “Have your say”
03:53 Full screen info graphics appear: a calendar titled “Must be built by the The M12 Motorway must be built by the mid-20's to mid 2020s”; an airplane titled “Vital for make sure our road infrastructure is in place and ready connecting to planned airport”; and a to support the new airport, employment areas and increasing bar graph titled “Planning residential development… now for future demand”
End logo screen a box out lines the project area and the title “Western as western Sydney continues to grow. Sydney Infrastructure Plan”
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