Sydney Gateway Community Update

Spring 2018

Sydney Airport and Port Botany are critical international gateways helping to move people and goods around New South Wales. They are set to grow signifcantly over the next 20 years.

Supporting this growth requires efficient connections to the city and Sydney’s other major centres and freight terminals. Part of the solution is Sydney Gateway.

Sydney Gateway will provide a new alternative route to enhance connections and reduce travel times to Sydney’s ports. It will also help provide improved access to all airport terminals and cater for increased rail freight, which will take pressure off local roads.

 

Strengthening Sydney’s transport connections The NSW Government is addressing congestion, improving safety and providing more choice for how you move around all of Sydney.

Improvements to road, rail and public transport will ensure our transport network enables easier, faster and safer journeys. That’s why we are investing more than ever before on transport infrastructure over the next four years, helping to grow the NSW economy and create tens of thousands of jobs in the process.

To improve access to industry centres like the airport precinct, we are increasing train service frequency, introducing intelligent traffic management systems, expanding the Sydney orbital motorway network, and creating new links to major centres.

Sydney Gateway is a key part of this vision, providing new motorway access and improved port connections. It will link our international gateways to key commercial centres across Greater Sydney.

Future Transport Strategy 2056 The NSW Government’s Future Transport Strategy provides a 40-year vision for our transport system. It was developed in close collaboration with the Greater Sydney Commission, Infrastructure NSW, the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet and the NSW Department of Planning and Environment.

Planning and investment for Greater Sydney will focus around the three cities concept – the Western Parkland City, the Central River City and the Eastern Harbour City, where people can access the jobs, education and services they need within 30 minutes by vehicle, public and active transport.

The vision is for road and rail links to form part of an integrated and connected network across the Greater Sydney region with each of the three cities. Sydney Gateway is a key part of this strategy, supporting safe, efficient and reliable journeys for people and freight.

We encourage you to find out more at future.transport.nsw.gov.au

Sydney Gateway Sydney is a global gateway and by 2056, forecasts Ensuring Sydney’s strategic centres are connected by an indicate our transport network will need to cater for effective, integrated transport network is fundamental to 28 million trips a day and support double the current supporting growth – providing access to jobs, housing, metropolitan freight loads. As more people travel around recreation activities and business interactions. our city, access to key centres such as Sydney Airport and

Sydney Gateway will expand capacity and improve Port Botany are critical to keep Sydney moving.

connections to the ports to assist with growth in Every day over 150,000 people travel to and from the passenger, freight and commuter movements across the airport precinct, with about 75 percent travelling by road. region. It will strengthen Sydney’s position as a global city, This airport traffic, combined with freight trucks from expanding and improving the existing road and freight rail Port Botany and other road users, has caused congestion networks. around Sydney’s ports.

 Easier • Access to the airports for over-

height vehicles (up to 4.6m)

• Reduce congestion and cater for forecast growth

 Faster • Improved travel times to airport

terminals and Port Botany

• Connections to improve transport routes

 Safer • Take trucks and cars

off local roads in Botany and Mascot

Improving the network Sydney Gateway includes two key components:

An improved freight rail network works hand-in-hand with

Road Sydney’s target of reducing congestion on our roads. Every

one million containers moved by rail annually reduces the number of trucks on the roads around Port Botany by more

A new alternative route to the domestic and international than 900 trucks each day. Port Botany has a target to airport terminals from the Sydney motorway network at move three million containers by rail by 2045. St Peters Interchange will provide a dedicated flyover from Qantas Drive to the front door of the domestic Together these projects effectively extend the M4

airport terminal. This route will bypass all traffic lights corridor to Port Botany and increase capacity on the

along major Sydney motorway networks to the domestic M5 corridor, better connecting Port Botany and freight

terminal. This project will be delivered by Roads and precincts in Western Sydney.

Maritime Services. Sydney Gateway is subject to Commonwealth and State

Sydney Gateway will complement future upgrades taking Government approvals.

place in the airport precinct. It will also improve traffic flow and help reduce congestion on nearby roads.

What other works are happening in the area? The NSW Government has been progressively upgrading roads around Sydney Airport to help

Rail improve traffic flow and access around the airport and Port Botany. The key projects are:

• Airport West: (Marsh Street) construction Duplicate a three-kilometre section of the Port Botany completed December 2017 freight rail line to increase capacity and improve service

reliability. This project will be delivered by Australian Rail • Airport East: (surrounding General Holmes Drive Track Corporation (ARTC). and Joyce Drive) construction to be completed in

mid-2019 The duplicated section from Botany to Mascot will allow freight to be moved more quickly and efficiently, allowing • Airport North: (surrounding Robey Street and businesses to move goods to consumers sooner and O’Riordan Street) construction started July 2018 reducing the number of trucks on local roads. and will take around two years to complete.

Learn more: rms.nsw.gov.au/sydneyairport

Proposed new T2-T3 connection and flyover

Sydney Gateway delivery The estimated cost is $2.2 to $2.6 billion for the road component of Sydney Gateway. The rail duplication is being funded and delivered by the Australian Government.

Sydney Gateway will be toll free.

Efficient freight movements As demand grows, more goods are required to be moved by train. This is particularly true between Port Botany and freight terminals in Western Sydney, where demand is highest.

In the 2018 Federal Budget, the Australian Government announced a $400 million commitment to fund the Port Botany Rail Line duplication and Cabramatta Loop. Both projects, led by ARTC, are part of a wider strategy to enhance freight capacity and efficiency, moving more freight by rail and moving goods to people faster.

Other priority projects include investments in freight terminals at Moorebank and Enfield. Moorebank will have a direct rail line to Port Botany via the Southern Sydney Freight Line to help move more freight by rail and reduce trucks on local roads.

Sydney Gateway is key to improving the efficiency of major freight movements, providing connections into Sydney’s motorway network and access to strategic centres.

Better and more

reliable tripsfor people, business and freight

Investing in roads around Sydney Airport

Catering forSydney’s growthin passengers and freight

Improved journey times

Morning peak travel time savings using Sydney Gateway as an alternative faster route

Sydney Gateway facts and benefits

Privacy Roads and Maritime Services (“RMS”) is subject to the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998(“PPIP Act”) which requires that we comply with the Information Privacy Principles set out in the PPIP Act. All information in correspondence is collected for the sole purpose of assisting in the delivery this project. The information received, including names and addresses of respondents, may be published in subsequent documents unless a clear indication is given in the correspondence that all or part of that information is not to be published. Otherwise RMS will only disclose your personal information, without your consent, if authorised by the law. Your personal information will be held by RMS at 27 Argyle Street, Parramatta. You have the right to access and correct the information if you believe that it is incorrect.

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Next steps The Sydney Gateway team will be seeking community feedback throughout the project to help shape planning and delivery.

The preferred route is influenced by a number of factors including the existing roads, rail corridor, airport safety restrictions, the environment and the Alexandra Canal.

Roads and Maritime Services and ARTC will consider all feedback from the community noting these constraints. We encourage you to submit comments online using the interactive map on our website.

The community will have further opportunities to provide feedback during the design phases and through the environmental assessment process.

During the design planning phase, Roads and Maritime and ARTC will be carrying out a range of site investigations in the project area. We will contact you before starting work, if the investigations are in or around your property.

To find out more about Sydney Gateway, or to have your say:

rms.nsw.gov.au/sydneygateway

1800 654 446

sydneygateway@rms.nsw.gov.au

R oads and Maritime Services Locked Bag 928, North Sydney, NSW 2059

All rail enquires will be directed to ARTC

If you need help understanding this information, please contact the Translating and Interpreting Service on 131 450 and ask them to call us on 1800 654 446.

Australian and NSW planning process

Planning determination

Environmental assessments exhibition

Environmental assessments

Project information and design development

Submit State Signifcant Infrastructure Application (SSIA)

Preliminary design

Project planning 2015 – 2018

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