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Aircraft Noise Greater Blue Mountains 60 - >95 dBA World Heritage Area Authorised by: No Badgerys Creek Airport, Residents Against Western Sydney Airport, Blue Mountains Conservation Society, February 2016. our communities a high speed rail what can i do? Cafes, street markets, festivals, bushwalks, lookouts, is a better option Aboriginal and European culture, art, theatre. Western A high speed rail from Sydney to Melbourne can WRITE LETTERS Sydney and the Blue Mountains has it all. We all love our reduce travel times, noise impacts, promote homes and no one wants it ruined by 24 hour aircraft noise. Write letters to your local newspapers and federal politicians development in regional areas along the route, telling them that you do not want this airport and why. Tell and allow people to travel in comfort. our schools them their support for this airport is a lost vote. How will your children concentrate on their lessons with Darren Chester, Infrastructure Minister planes roaring overhead? How will your children sleep at The time to build the HSR Melbourne to Brisbane [email protected] night with planes roaring overhead? How will our teachers is now. If the Western Sydney Airport is built, no cope with noise disrupted lessons and being sleep deprived future governments will risk the financial impact of Greg Hunt, Environment Minister themselves? HSR on airports. [email protected] 24/7 planes Doug Cameron, Senator for NSW High speed rail can transport passengers between [email protected] Sydney airports stop at night yet this Western Sydney airpot Sydney and Melbourne or Brisbane faster than Mark Butler, Shadow Environment Minister is 24/7, no break for you! flying. It takes over 3 hours to fly to Melbourne [email protected] air pollution (transit to airport, arrive well before your flight, go through security, board the plane, taxi to the , Shadow Infrastructure Minister Will cause disease and death. The Draft EIS says that ozone [email protected] runway, take off, flight time, land, taxi to the emissions will kill people. Fine particulates will increase asthma and cancer. Interrupted sleep will cause heart terminal, collect your luggage, taxi or bus to the Malcolm Turnbull disease. city). The High Speed Rail [email protected] system will deliver you from Sydney Central Bill Shorten not needed now Station to Melbourne Southern Cross Station in 2 [email protected] not needed in the future hours, 44 minutes and is easy and comfortable. Kingsford Smith Airport at Mascot runs well below capacity Candidates for Macquarie at 61%. Growth in passenger numbers is being catered for On a high speed train you can walk around, make Catherine Lincoln by bigger planes, not more flights. Half of all passenger phone calls, use the internet, watch scenery roll [email protected] movements are to and from Australian East Coast by. Trains can be electrified, run on renewable destinations, including 24% to and from Melbourne, 20% energy, are sustainable. Why would we want to [email protected] to and from Brisbane and Gold Coast. We don’t need build another airport? Terry Morgan another airport! [email protected] world heritage Susan Templeman Our Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage area will be [email protected] destroyed and lost forever, with planes as low as 5,000ft overhead, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week! This World TALK Heritage area must be protected forever. Talk to your friends, family and neighbours and stop the airport.

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