Parramatta Light Rail (Stage 1) Westmead to Carlingford via Parramatta CBD and Camellia Project Overview August 2017 Contents Introduction to Parramatta Light Rail 04 Minister’s message About the Environmental Impact Statement 06 Project objectives and benefits 08 How was the Stage 1 preferred alignment chosen? 12 A journey on Parramatta Light Rail 14 Precinct map 16 Westmead Precinct 18 I am proud to serve as Minister for Parramatta Light Rail will provide high Transport and Infrastructure overseeing frequency services seven days a week, Parramatta North Precinct 20 the NSW Government’s continuing early morning to late at night. The light rail Parramatta CBD Precinct 22 record levels of investment and delivery vehicles will be modern, air-conditioned, of key transport projects. Over the next and fully accessible. There will be 16 24 Rosehill and Camellia Precinct four years, $73 billion will be spent on stops, connecting with bus, train and ferry Carlingford Precinct 26 infrastructure, including investment in services, and commuters will travel using major transport, roads, hospitals and their Opal card. Stops 28 stadiums. Extensive community and stakeholder 30 Stabling and maintenance facility Parramatta Light Rail is one of three new engagement on the project has been Powering light rail 31 light rail projects currently underway undertaken since early 2016 and feedback in NSW. Sydney Light Rail is more than has been largely positive. Building the Parramatta Light Rail 32 halfway through construction and work The Environmental Impact Statement 34 has begun in Newcastle. With Parramatta Property acquisitions is your last chance to influence what emerging as Sydney’s second CBD, we are Active Transport Corridor 35 Parramatta Light Rail will look like. delivering a world class public transport It includes details on the route, key Working with local communities 37 system to support its development. benefits, urban design, and the impacts This project will transform the way people Business support 38 of construction and operation. This is the move around the Greater Parramatta biggest public transport initiative Greater Managing construction and operational noise and vibration 40 to the Olympic Peninsula priority Parramatta has seen for generations, growth area. Construction and operational traffic management 42 and I invite you to be part of planning Heritage 44 tomorrow’s Sydney. Environment, biodiversity and sustainability 45 How to have your say on the Parramatta Light Rail EIS 46 Where to view the EIS 47 The Hon. Andrew Constance MP Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Parramatta North: Image Courtesy of UrbanGrowth NSW Introduction to Parramatta Light Rail CARLINGFORD B Proposed light rail stops Carlingford PARRAMATTA T B F Transport interchange locations ! Project overview Key features of the project STRATHFIELDSYDNEY include: Parramatta Light Rail Stage 1 (‘the project’) • A new light rail network connects Westmead to Carlingford via Parramatta of 12 kilometres in length, CBD and Camellia. including approximately Telopea Cumberland The alignment links Parramatta CBD and seven kilometres within Children’s Hospital Hospital at Parramatta’s Transport Interchange to the the existing road corridor Westmead and approximately five Westmead Health precinct, Parramatta North Urban Westmead Factory Street Transformation Program, the new Western Sydney kilometres within the Hospital Stadium, the new Powerhouse Museum existing Carlingford Line and Dundas and Riverside Theatres Cultural Hub, the private Sandown Line, replacing Fennell Street and social housing redevelopment at Telopea, current heavy rail services. Westmead • 16 stops that are fully T B Prince Alfred Rosehill Gardens Racecourse and three Western Square Rydalmere Sydney University campuses. accessible and integrated into the urban environment. Eat Street F Construction of the project is expected to • High frequency ‘turn-up- commence in mid-2018 (subject to planning and-go’ services seven days B T Camellia approval) with services commencing in 2023. a week from 5am to 1am. Parramatta Square Services will operate around every 7.5 minutes in the peak Harris Street Tramway Avenue Stabling and maintenance facility period between 7am and 7pm. • Modern and comfortable Project alignment air-conditioned vehicles, 45m long and driver- • Stabling and maintenance facility located in • Active transport corridors and additional urban operated carrying up to 300 Camellia for light rail vehicles to be cleaned and design features along sections of the alignment customers. maintained. and within stop precincts. • Interchanges with existing • New bridge structures along the alignment • Integration with the Opal card electronic rail, bus and/or ferry facilities including over James Ruse Drive and Clay Cliff ticketing system. at Westmead, Parramatta Creek, Parramatta River (near the Cumberland • Real time information will be provided on the CBD, and Carlingford. Hospital), Kissing Point Road and Vineyard light rail vehicle via visual displays and audio. • Creation of two light rail Creek, Rydalmere. and pedestrian zones (no • Alterations to the existing road network general vehicle access) within including line marking, additional traffic lanes the Parramatta CBD along and turning lanes, new traffic signals, and Church Street (generally changes to traffic flows. between Market Street • The heavy rail line between Camellia and Clyde and Macquarie Street) and will close permanently, meaning traffic will no Macquarie Street (generally longer be held up at the railway crossing on between Horwood Place and Artist impression of Parramatta North Urban Transformation Program: Parramatta Road, improving traffic flow on one Image Courtesy of UrbanGrowth NSW Smith Street). of Sydney’s major arterial roads. 04 Parramatta Light Rail Project Overview 05 EIS DEVELOPMENT STAGES Early Consultation and Scoping of Issues Oct 2014 ONSUL C TA Y T L I Early project consultation undertaken prior to the R O commencement of the formal approval process. A N About the Environmental Impact Statement E Project refined on the basis of the early project Stage 1 consultation. Initial scoping of EIS investigations undertaken on the basis of early project consultation. Environmental Impact Statement Feb 2017 Transport for NSW prepares and submits a State Significant Infrastructure application to the M AL I PAC Secretary of the NSW Department of Planning T T and Environment (DP&E), which includes a N S E T supporting document outlining the project and its M A T likely impacts. N E O M R I Stage 2 E Planning focus meeting with key government N V stakeholders and community consultation. T N E DP&E issues Secretary’s Environment Mar 2017 Assessment Requirements (SEARs) for the EIS with focus on key issues. Artist impression of Parramatta North Urban Transformation Program: Image Courtesy of UrbanGrowth NSW EIS prepared addressing the matters outlined in the SEARs. The Environmental Impact Some of the key areas the EIS considers are: Statement (EIS) is on public • Project definition and alternatives considered. Public Exhibition and Consultation Aug 2017 NSULTAT exhibition from 23rd August to • Community consultation. O IO DP&E exhibits the EIS for a minimum of C N We are here • Major construction work. 30 days and invites public submissions. 23rd October 2017 N & O R • Traffic impacts. I This document is an overview of key topics T E I Secretary may require proponent to respond V B I assessed in the EIS. You should also view a copy of • Construction and operational noise and I Stage 3 E to submissions and submit a preferred H W the complete EIS Assessment and/or the relevant vibration impacts. X infrastructure report outlining proposed changes Technical Papers before making a submission. E to minimise environmental impacts or address • Local business impacts during construction. any other issues raised during assessment of the The project must undergo environmental impact • Social impacts. application. assessment under the Environmental Planning and • Indigenous and non-indigenous heritage. Assessment Act 1979 (EP&A Act). Approval from • Visual amenity. Assessment and Determination the NSW Minister for Planning is required following 2018 • Sustainability. public exhibition before Transport for NSW can Assessment by DP&E with recommended D proceed with construction of the project. • Environmental management and mitigation. & ETE conditions or refusal. Agencies and councils NT R E M consulted by DP&E. I Transport for NSW is seeking the project to be • Biodiversity and trees. M N S A S declared by the Minister for Planning as Critical T E I O State Significant Infrastructure under section S N Stage 4 S DP&E recommendations are submitted to 115U(4) and 115V of the EP&A Act. A Minister for Planning. An EIS has been developed for the project to address design options and the associated Determination by the Minister, including if potential environment and social impacts arising approved, any conditions of approval. during construction and operation of the proposed project. Post-approval implementation and compliance (if project approved). 06 Parramatta Light Rail Project Overview 07 Project objectives and benefits By 2036, more than half of all Project objectives Benefits Sydneysiders will call Western Sydney What is GPOP? Parramatta Light Rail will deliver an integrated Key benefits flowing from the project include: The Greater Parramatta and the Olympic home, a population shift that is pulling light rail service that