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boulevarde

Placename
boulevarde
Layer
Poetry in Handard Test
Type
Other

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Latitude
-27.5173497
Longitude
153.2822444
Start Date
2000-06-19
End Date
2000-06-19

Description

parliament.no: 19
session.no: 1
period.no: 6
chamber: REPS
page.no: 17642.0
speaker: Mr BAIRD
speaker.id: MP6
title: Roads: F6 Link Road
electorate: Cook
type: Adjournment
state: Not Available
party: LP
role: Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business
incumbent party: True
poet: Not Available
poem: Not Available

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A corridor of land has been set aside for the last 30 years, part of the old 1948 plan for Sydney overall. The long-term need for an express road has been there for some time. The link road will join the Wollongong-Loftus expressway with the newly completed Eastern Distributor. It is ironic that $100 million has been spent on the Eastern Distributor, with benefits negated by bottlenecks down the road. The people of the Sutherland shire deserve to know what Labor's solution is to worsening traffic in the Sydney southern region. What we have got is not just frustrating but downright dangerous, particularly in wet weather. The Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales conduct regular travel time surveys in the Sydney metropolitan area. The NRMA's letter highlighted local traffic problems shown up in the RTA's 1997 survey, which indicated some congested sections of road in the Sutherland shire. In the morning peak times, these included the Princes Highway and Port Hacking Road intersection, Sylvania, and Acacia Road, Kirrawee. In the evening peak, congested sections included Acacia Road, Kirrawee, and Taren Point Road. The RTA's most recent travel time survey of October 1999 is an indictment of the state government's contempt for the people of southern Sydney. The state Labor government's focus on the west is clearly at the expense of southern Sydney. From the 1999 survey, data is available indicating various roads and their mean travel times at different times of the day—morning and afternoon peak periods as well as off-peak times. The RTA's Traffic Technology Branch feels that travel which is restricted to 25 kilometres per hour or less in both directions is too slow and needs to be addressed. I point out that 25 kilometres is a very low benchmark. At the northern end of the proposed link road in the member for Barton's electorate, the Grand Parade resembles a parking lot in peak times, particularly in the morning when, according to the official statistics, the average speed is eight kilometres an hour. Some people are abandoning the Grand Parade for other rat runs in sheer desperation at the situation. Unlike in Robert Frost's poem, taking the road less travelled does not make all the difference, as eventually everyone is funnelled through to the airport tunnel and onto the Eastern Distributor. People sitting on the Grand Parade contemplating the road not taken will be more familiar with Frost's imagining `somewhere ages and ages hence'. Further south on Taren Point Road in my electorate, driving between the Kingsway and the Boulevarde, traffic is bad in both directions—between 18 kilometres and 23 kilometres an hour in morning peak times. In the afternoon this improves marginally to between 21 kilometres an hour and 26 kilometres an hour. Other sections of this road hover around the low RTA benchmark. From my home in Cronulla, it often takes an eternity to reach the Princes Highway in the west of my electorate or major intersecting roads, with sections of the Kingsway hovering around the RTA benchmark region also. Even driving along the Princes Highway from Bay Street to President Avenue and vice versa, speeds are 23 kilometres an hour and 25 kilometres an hour respectively and 20 kilometres an hour and 26 kilometres an hour in the afternoon peak. Off-peak periods are no more enjoyable, with speeds of 24 kilometres an hour and 30 kilometres an hour, depending on the direction being travelled. Therefore, recognising the need for a solution, the F6 link road proposal should receive urgent attention. Tackling this issue would be a better way of spending transport finances in the area. A link road would provide a traffic cure in the long term. Addressing individual intersections seems to be focusing on the symptoms. The NRMA suggests the study could address the projected level of traffic usage, the estimated travel time saving and reduced traffic congestion as a result of the road's construction, the cost/benefit of the road, the priority of the road as compared with other roads yet to be constructed in Sydney from a cost/benefit perspective, the benefit of the road in encouraging local land use development, the potential environmental impacts of a surface route versus an underground option and the combination of the two and the value of building the road compared to small scale improvements to the existing road network.