sydney-city-centre-review-of-environmental-factors

NSW Long Term Transport Master Plan
The Long Term Transport Master Plan provides the framework for delivering an
integrated, modern transport system across NSW over the next 20 years. It identifies
transport actions and investment priorities over the short, medium and long-term that
have emerged in response to six identified transport challenges:
Integrating transport services
Getting Sydney moving again
Sustaining growth in Greater Sydney
Providing essential access to regional NSW
Supporting efficient and productive freight
Statewide actions.
The Master Plan responds to these challenges through four identified types of action:
Integrating transport services
Modernising the transport system
Growing the transport network to meet future demand, including the important
task of corridor preservation
Maintaining important road and public transport assets.
The master plan recognises that the above actions would require:
A fully integrated transport system
Increasing train capacity
A modern light rail system
A modern bus system
The need to ‘unclog’ the city centre
Walking and cycling improvements that will integrate with public transport.
Many of these objectives have emerged through the specific projects identified under
the Access Strategy. As the proposal would facilitate implementation of these
projects, it is consistent with the above actions of modernising the existing road and
transport networks to support movement throughout the city centre, and promoting
alternative integrated forms of transport.
Sydney’s Light Rail Future
Sydney’s Light Rail Future is a sub-document of the Long Term Transport Master
Plan. It reinforces the requirement to construct light rail in the city centre as part of
the initiative to ‘unlock capacity in Sydney’s CBD’. It recognises the benefits of
integrated transport solutions and sets out the four stages to deliver this.
The plan is important as it recognises that in order to deliver light rail in the city
centre there is a requirement to redesign the bus network and implement a number
of traffic capacity improvements to set priorities across the road network.
The proposal is therefore a direct outcome of the plan. It supports development of the
CSELR project by improving traffic efficiency on city centre roads and road network
functionality over the coming years.
Sydney City Centre Capacity Improvement 10
Review of Environmental Factors