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

Cumulative effect
Some very minor cumulative
visual impacts due to
changes in traffic patterns,
including the distribution of
buses, allocation of traffic
and ‘intensification’ of traffic
along some sections of road
Cumulative loss of trees
across the city centre
Key issues
Footpath widths and kerb extension would be permanently reduced or modified in certain locations within the
proposal footprint to introduce the needed capacity improvements. In other locations kerbside restrictions would
be implemented to create additional traffic lanes that would either operate part time or full time. As a
consequence, road traffic would become more dominant within the available ‘street space’ at certain locations
within the proposal footprint, resulting in very minor adverse visual amenity impacts.
The CSELR, Sydney City Centre Bus Infrastructure project and Sydney City Centre Cycleway project will also
have an impact on traffic patterns, allocations and priorities around the city centre, affecting the ‘dominance’
and ‘influence’ of traffic along certain roads, whilst reducing or removing its influence on other roads (eg the
removal of traffic from part of George Street under the CSELR).
Overall, there would be a greater change to the streetscape and landscape character of parts of the city centre
through the cumulative and combined impacts of the above projects and this proposal. Overall any cumulative
impacts would be minor, considering that all roads within the city centre are already established. The proposal
and the above projects would not result in any major change to their layout, configurations or geometries. As
such, any cumulative visual impacts on adjacent receivers would be minor adverse and would not require
specific mitigation.
The proposal, the CSELR, the Sydney City Centre Bus Infrastructure project and the Sydney City Centre
Cycleway project all require the removal of planted trees within the city centre.
A tree replacement strategy is proposed to offset tree loss under the CSELR project. The additional loss of
trees from this proposal would be negligible.
Sydney City Centre Capacity Improvement 427
Review of Environmental Factors