Transport Proposals
EcoTransit Sydney have developed a number of proposals for transport as solutions to the problems of congestion on the roads and crowding on public transport. Many of these solutions have social and health benefits for everyone in the greater Sydney area.
- Nine Point Transport Plan
- A collection of measures that taken together provide an alternative to the $4.5 billion M5 duplication project.
- City West Cycle Link
- The City West Cycle Link is a proposal for a new cycling facility that would provide a grade-separated connection between Charles St at Lilyfield and the Anzac Bridge cycleway at White Bay.
- White Bay Green Link
- The White Bay Green Link (WBGL) concept is a combined light rail route and cycleway running from Lilyfield light rail stop to the Barangaroo precinct and the northern CBD via the existing, now unused, White Bay rail corridor and a tunnel beneath the Balmain Peninsula and under Darling Harbour.
- The Bay Light Express
- The Bay Light Express is a light rail proposal consisting of two links: Bay Light East and Bay Light West. The two would skirt the neighbourhoods of the
Botany Bay Region, providing fast, comfortable and convenient access between residential and commercial areas that are now difficult to access by public transport.
- Light Rail West
- A proposal for extending light rail to serve communities in the Inner West
- Better alternatives to the CBD Metro
- As an alternative to the poorly integrated $5.4 billion CBD Metro project, the September 2009 edition of EcoTransit News outlined cost effective options for improving public transport services in Sydney.
The proposals from EcoTransit Sydney focussed on light rail and the CityRail network, which is the result of 150 years of social investment in the public good, serving the entire Sydney basin, and beyond.
The Sydney Morning Herald's comprehensive Independent Public Inquiry into a Long Term Public Transport Plan for Sydney also detailed extensive, and long overdue, improvements in the existing City Rail network that could be funded by the CBD Metro's nominal $5.4 billion price tag.
EcoTransit Sydney has also outlined proposals for improvements to some of Sydney's overcrowded heavy-rail lines. See our solution for the congested roads and lines of the southern sydney area.