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

Cumulative effect
Pedestrian amenity
and capacity due to
footpath
restrictions,
including increased
pedestrian journey
times
Key issues
R2: Market Street
R4: Clarence Street
R5: York Street
S3: Pitt Street
C2: College Street.
Potential cumulative impacts may include the restriction of access to the bus stops. Longer term or more extensive
access restrictions to bus stops may potentially reduce accessibility and require users to walk to alternative locations,
leading to increased journey times. The cumulative impact would ultimately depend on the timing and staging overlap
between other projects and this proposal.
Safeguards and management measures to avoid and/or minimise the proposal’s impacts on bus provisions and services
are provided in Section 6.1.4. The construction staging and program would also be developed cognisant of the controls
introduced under the above projects, with specific areas of conflict identified in the construction traffic management plan
(refer to section 6.1.4). Conflict would be managed by:
Scheduling work to avoid cumulative interactions with other projects
Implementing traffic management controls to respect critical timing requirements of these other projects
Monitoring of bus delays and bus stop restrictions during construction across the proposal footprint to consider
cumulative effects from these other projects and modifying the construction management measures accordingly.
Therefore, there will be a need to manage the interfaces of the construction staging and programming of this proposal in
combination with the above projects to ensure impacts are minimised.
The duration, type and extent of any footpath restriction would depend on the improvements being installed in any given
location. It is assumed that potential restrictions could be in place for over three months in locations where more major
work would be taking place (refer to Table 3-3 to Table 3-7). The restriction or delays would be relaxed during high
demand (ie peak) periods so as not to impact on the city’s road network performance (refer to section 6.1.3).
Footpaths and cycleways along the following roads may be impacted by simultaneous construction of the Sydney City
Centre Bus Infrastructure and Sydney City Centre Cycleway projects and this proposal:
NW1: Kent Street
R1: Park Street
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Review of Environmental Factors