June 2018 F6 Extension Stage 1 New M5 Motorway at Arncliffe to President Avenue at Kogarah Project overview 1 Contents About this document 4 The tunnel entry and exit at President Avenue Kogarah 18 Project overview 5 Shared cycle and Strategic need 8 pedestrian pathways 20 Our transport future 9 Primary construction sites 23 Further stages of the F6 Extension 10 Location of ventilation facilities 25 Community consultation 14 Stronger measures on Project cost 15 tunnel emissions 26 Next Steps 15 Meet the project team 28 F6 Extension Stage 1 proposed design 16 2 Facts and benefits The F6 Extension Stage 1 will deliver the missing link from Sydney’s south to the wider motorway network, making your journey easier, faster and safer. up to trac lights The four kilometre bypassed underground motorway 23 tunnels will connect President Avenue at minimum surface impact Kogarah to the New M5 metres Motorway at Arncliffe, average depth 70 underground removing more than 2,000 trucks a day from surface roads. The F6 Extension Stage 1 over will ease congestion, metre meaning less time in traffic , . clearance and faster trips to the CBD 2000 5for higher3 vehicles and across Greater Sydney. It will contribute to a more accessible, more liveable and productive Trucks per day Greater Sydney. removed from nearby surface roads Newshared cycle Improving and pedestrian pathways travel times Improving trac flow fewer vehicles and less stopping on surface roads Cover: F6 Extension tunnel Stage 1 (artist’s impression). Inside cover: Princes Highway and President Avenue intersection. 3 Future Transport Introduction reserved corridor between Kogarah and Loftus to help Strategy 2056, the NSW The F6 Extension Stage 1 is determine the most appropriate Government’s 40 year a key element of the NSW alignment and design for further Government’s transport vision stages of the future motorway. vision for transport for NSW. As NSW continues to outcomes in NSW, grow, our transport challenge About this document also increases, and congestion has identified the F6 impacts our economy. This is why This project update provides Extension Stage 1 as the NSW Government is investing community members and a priority project for $41.5 billion on roads and public stakeholders with more detailed transport projects over the next information about what Roads connectivity in Sydney’s four years alone, to deliver an and Maritime is proposing for the south, and to the integrated transport solution to F6 Extension Stage 1 and provides make it easier, faster and safer an opportunity to give further Illawarra. to get around. Projects include feedback on the project. Australia’s first Metro, Light Rail This document contains: and improvements to rail services. • The indicative alignment for In October 2017, the NSW the motorway tunnels Government announced it will proceed with the F6 Extension • Information about the Stage 1 to provide a new locations of motorway motorway connection between construction sites and the New M5 Motorway at permanent facilities Arncliffe and President Avenue • Information on the new at Kogarah. The project will be intersection at President Avenue the first stage in completing • Information on the proposed the missing link from southern shared cycle and pedestrian Sydney to the Sydney motorway pathways. network. At present there is no efficient connection to Sydney’s The project is still subject to motorway network from the south. change and further refinement Roads and Maritime Services is as it progresses through the also continuing with investigation planning approval process and work along the existing F6 detailed design. Want to learn more about the F6 Extension Stage 1? Visit the website rms.nsw.gov.au/F6 to watch our animation or leave your comments about the project on our online interactive map. Left: Brighton-Le-Sands beach. 4 Project overview F6 Extension Stage 1 • Twin tunnels linking the New • Tunnel stubs for a future M5 Motorway at Arncliffe to connection south to extend The project includes new President Avenue at Kogarah the F6 Extension underground tunnels around four kilometres in length. The scope of • Ramps between the motorway • Provision of new shared cycle work includes: tunnel and the surface and pedestrian pathways. intersection at President Avenue Map: F6 Extension Stage 1. Turrella WOLLI CREEK Bardwell Park M4 WestConnex International Airport City West Parramatta Marsh Street South Western Mot Blacktown M5 WestConnex orway Underground Liverpool connection to Arnclie Campbelltown New M5 Motorway ARNCLIFFE Ventilation facility CONNECTING WITH constructed as part of EXISTING SHARED PATHS TO ALEXANDRIA, SYDNEY the New M5 Motorway ay AIRPORT AND CBD Forest Road Street any BANKSIA Barton M5 East Princes Highw Park Gardiner Park West Bot KYEEMAGH Cooks River Banksia Twin motorway Kyeemagh tunnels (indicative Reserve alignment only) Holmes Drive Bestic Street General Rockdale Ador Botany Bay Avenue Reserve BRIGHTON- LE-SANDS Provision for a future extension ROCKDALE McCarthey CA Redmond south Reserve Field New shared cycle and pedestrian Harrow Road pathways BEXLEY arade Ba Kings y Street Wetland Proposed ventilation facility in Rockdale y The Grand P a industrial area Kogarah Rockdale KOGARAH Bicentennial Park Tunnel entry and Princes Highw Princes Highway/ exit ramps President Avenue intersection upgrade President Avenue President Scarborough Avenue CONNECTING WITH intersection Park North EXISTING SHARED PATHS TO SUTHERLAND Legend F6 Extension Stage 1 – New M5 Motorway, Arnclie Existing shared cycle and to President Avenue, Kogarah pedestrian pathways N F6 Extension Stage 1 – Surface connection works New M5 Motorway 0 250 500 MetresMeters New shared cycle and pedestrian pathways Ventilation facility (indicative route only) 5 F6 Extension Stage 1 easier faster safer • Reduce traffic on General • Bypass up to 23 sets of • Less traffic to return local Holmes Drive by 10,000 traffic lights on the Princes streets to local communities vehicles a day Highway between St Peters and Kogarah • Improving pedestrian and • Built underground to minimise cyclist safety through the new disruption to the community • Less stop-start, more reliable shared cycle and pedestrian and property impacts travel times pathways • More direct access from • Travel time savings between • Tunnels designed for free- southern Sydney to the wider southern Sydney and the flow traffic at 80 kilometres Sydney motorway network Sydney CBD. per hour – means less vehicle emissions compared to stop– • Access to jobs, education and start traffic lifestyle opportunities • Reduce the number of trucks • Bypass Sydney airport traffic. on surface roads by over 2,000 per day. Below: Cooks River shared cycle and pedestrian pathway. 6 Improving Less time in traffic travel times more time for you Stage 1 would provide travel The project will give communities and businesses new time savings of: levels of access across the transport network. • Kogarah to ANZAC Bridge 15 It’s an integral part of the Future Transport Strategy 2056 minutes and will keep our city moving as we continue to grow. • Miranda to Macquarie Park 15 minutes • Kogarah to South Sydney 13 minutes • Taren Point to Mascot 12 minutes • Kogarah to the City 8 minutes. Below: Brighton-Le-Sands beach. Improving the amenity of the foreshore precinct at Brighton-Le- Sands and The Grand Parade through a reduction in traffic, returning local streets to local communities 7 Strategic need The southern Sydney road Eastern Harbour City – spans the South District network experiences daily North, Eastern City and South Around 16 per cent of Greater congestion and unreliable travel Districts including Sydney Airport, Sydney’s population resides in times. On the Princes Highway Port Botany and Kogarah. the South District, which includes between Kogarah and the Sydney Central River City – anchored by the centres of Kogarah, Miranda, CBD, peak hour travel speeds Greater Parramatta and Sydney Hurstville and Sutherland. It are amongst the slowest for a Olympic Park to the west. provides 10 per cent of the city’s major arterial road in Sydney. jobs. As Sydney’s population and Western Parkland City – an economy continues to grow emerging City focussed on Of the six districts, population so will the challenges to our Western Sydney Airport , growth is expected to be highest transport network. Greater Penrith, Liverpool and in the Eastern City and South Campbelltown-Macarthur. Districts growing by 325,000 This is why the NSW Government residents or 32 per cent in is investing $41.5 billion in roads The NSW Government has set Eastern City and by 204,100 and public transport projects strategic priorities for these residents or 28 per cent in the over four years to deliver an areas to support its vision for a South District by 2036. integrated transport solution. more productive, liveable and sustainable Greater Sydney, Together, the Eastern City and Motorways will become more including 30-minute access to South District are expected to important for moving people and jobs and services, and an efficient provide 53 per cent of jobs in goods around Sydney efficiently. freight network. Greater Sydney by 2036, with They form the backbone of our a large number of these jobs road transport system; providing For strategic planning purposes, located near the F6 Extension easier access to jobs and and separate to the ‘three cities’ Stage 1 project area, including services. vision, Greater Sydney has been divided into six districts. employment centres in