Stop the M5 Expansion
The Greens are campaigning against the State Labor government’s most recent motorway madness, the proposed $4.5 billion M5 Duplication project.
Lee is working both inside and outside of NSW Parliament and the Marrickville Greens councillors are working with the community, particularly in the Tempe area, to help fight this new motorway.
This project will:
· add new lanes to the M5 motorway
· duplicate the existing M5 tunnel
· create an additional four lane arterial road called the Southern Sydney Connection, which will crash through the $17 million remediated Tempe Lands including wetlands, and dump traffic into local streets in St Peters and Alexandria.
The government has learnt nothing from its failed tunnel projects and it is negligent for failing to invest in public transport, rail freight infrastructure and alternative transport options.
This monster road project will destroy communities, increase greenhouse emissions and air pollution, induce traffic and absorb funding that should go into public transport.
It will also make the controversial M4 East project inevitable.
The duplicated M5 tunnel will require emission stacks to get rid of pollution. If the RTA continues its current form they will not be filtered. This will leave nearby residents to choke on fine particles, carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide.
Labor, at both Federal and State levels, has created an enormous freight problem by expanding Port Botany and Sydney Airport. It is now now struggling to deal with the wash up.
NSW Labor is seeking funding for the project from the Federal Minister for Transport Anthony Albanese, through Infrastructure Australia.
In an age of climate change and peak oil this new project just doesn't make sense.
The billions that might be allocated to this project would be much better spent on public transport, freight rail infrastructure and active transport.
Submissions to the RTA's feasibility study closed on 12 March 2010. The original February date was extended after a community outcry over the short timeframe.
Read the NSW Greens' submission and the Marrickville Greens submission.
For more info
Marrickville Council has prepared a comprehensive report and voted to oppose the project.
The Marrickville Greens website also provides great detail, including maps.
Join Tempe 2020, a group of Tempe residents, on Facebook who are actively campaigning on the issue.
Have your say!
You can have your say on the RTA’s plans to expand the M5. Let the State government know you do not want this new road and the traffic congestion and pollution it will bring.
Email a submission to m5expansion@rta.nsw.gov.au or write to M5 Corridor Expansion, PO Box 609, Pyrmont NSW 2009
Phone, email or write to Roads and Transport Minister David Campbell telling him you oppose the M5 Expansion.
Mr David Campbell
Phone: (02) 9228 3777
Fax: (02) 9228 3722
Email: david@campbell.minister.nsw.gov.au
Phone, email or write to Anthony Albanese, Federal Minister for Transport and Infrastructure
Federal Member for Grayndler Mr Anthony Albanese
Phone: (02) 9564 3588
Fax: (02) 9564 1734
Email: A.Albanese.MP@aph.gov.au
Latest News
M5 Expansion: Keneally should use launch of transport plan to cancel: 19 Feburary 2010
Albanese should block funding for M5 expansion: 6 February 2010
