Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Date of Next BOB Meeting
3 August in The Long Shot, at 8:30am. All Beecroft Businesses are invited to attend.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Beecroft in Bloom - Date Set
Frances advises me that the date for Beecroft in Bloom this year is 25 September (note -changed from an earlier announced date due to availability of personnel).
Thursday, June 10, 2010
M2 Upgrade
Did you know what the RTA are proposing to do to the motorway as it goes through our area, starting end of this year and taking 2 years? The $550M upgrade includes widening the motorway over Chilwell Reserve from the present two quite narrow causeways to an eight lane monster as shown here (from the RTA website), and
widening the Epping tunnel to three lanes each way, thus.
If you have concerns about this, have your say.
Written submission must be sent by 5pm on 21 June 2010 to:
Director, Major Infrastructure Assessments
NSW Department of Planning Fax: (02) 9228 6335
GPO Box 39, Sydney NSW 20001
Director, Major Infrastructure Assessments
NSW Department of Planning Fax: (02) 9228 6335
GPO Box 39, Sydney NSW 20001
Monday, May 31, 2010
M2 Widening
This post by Peter Hewitt:
I just discovered that submissions on the M2 Widening Project close in just over 2 weeks time (21 June)! Nobody seems to be publicising this, and it's quite hard to find out that date on the official websites.
I believe (but have been unable to confirm from any NSW government source) that the project includes filling in the gap between the two viaducts over Chilworth Reserve, which must surely be major construction work. Over what period of time (presumably including extended night work) and at what cost?
It seems to me that all this project does is to widen the funnel sucking traffic into the existing M2 "car park" nearing the Harbour Bridge, thereby further degrading access to the city from Beecroft!
I can find nothing on the Beecroft-Cheltenham Civic Trust website on this issue other than a submission made in February 2008. Then they said "The Trust would also oppose any widening of the existing carriageway because of the high impact on local amenity". The Trust should at least publicise the imminent closing of submissions. Or have we all given up?
I just discovered that submissions on the M2 Widening Project close in just over 2 weeks time (21 June)! Nobody seems to be publicising this, and it's quite hard to find out that date on the official websites.
I believe (but have been unable to confirm from any NSW government source) that the project includes filling in the gap between the two viaducts over Chilworth Reserve, which must surely be major construction work. Over what period of time (presumably including extended night work) and at what cost?
It seems to me that all this project does is to widen the funnel sucking traffic into the existing M2 "car park" nearing the Harbour Bridge, thereby further degrading access to the city from Beecroft!
I can find nothing on the Beecroft-Cheltenham Civic Trust website on this issue other than a submission made in February 2008. Then they said "The Trust would also oppose any widening of the existing carriageway because of the high impact on local amenity". The Trust should at least publicise the imminent closing of submissions. Or have we all given up?
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