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

Summary
Table 2-6
‘Option b’ and ‘option c’ would best meet the overall proposal objective of
supporting growing demand for access to the city centre and improving
road network functionality in future years by clearly setting priorities along
York Street. This would improve bus circulation and travel times
throughout the city, especially for the high-volume of buses that enter the
city southbound during the morning peak period. The challenge of ‘option
b’ and ‘option c’ is their potential impacts along the York Street frontage
during construction and once the proposal is operational. Despite this, it
was assessed that ‘option b’ provides the more favourable outcome
against the proposal’s objectives, as ‘option a’ does not resolve the
conflict between kerbside allocations and the main traffic, and ‘option c’
would not provide full width lanes. The conclusion was, however, that the
capacity provided under ‘option b’ would benefit the high numbers of city
centre road users and bus users especially during morning peak period to
justify the impacts along the York Street frontage. Option b therefore
performed best against the proposal objectives and evaluation criteria.
Analysis of options in precinct 3: southern
S1: Sussex Street (one option)
Traffic
efficiency
The option would benefit road users by introducing traffic efficiencies,
reducing congestion and improving traffic flows allowing the road’s
reallocation and prioritisation as a bypass corridor as per the Access
Strategy (refer to section 2.1).
Amenity
Kerbside
use
Business
impacts
The most efficient method of achieving this would be to time-restrict and
modify the parking and loading along the kerbside
The option would improve the road user experience for traffic wishing to
bypass the core city centre roads by setting both southbound and
northbound priorities. This would provide much needed capacity in light of
the planned closure of part of George Street and the reprioritisation
of York Street, Clarence Street and King Street.
The provided solution would modify and time-restrict the kerbside parking
and loading provisions during peak periods. It would therefore introduce
benefit to road users whilst retaining the existing kerbside provisions at
other times.
The proposal would introduce additional loading zones along the kerbside
to benefit businesses and to compensate for the introduced timerestrictions
elsewhere on the road.
The timing-changes would still allow early morning unloading to service
and benefit adjacent businesses.
Summary The option identified for this pinch point would achieve the proposal
objectives as it would support the growing demand for access on this
priority corridor and improve road network functionality for northbound and
southbound traffic. The option also performed well against the evaluation
criteria and provided the required outcome through one proposed option.
S2: Goulburn Street (one option)
Traffic
efficiency
Amenity
The option would benefit road users by improving the east-west
movement across George Street therefore introducing traffic efficiencies,
reducing congestion and improving traffic flows for this priority multimodal
corridor.
The option would improve the road user experience within this corridor by
improving priorities across the intersection and creating three through
lanes.
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Review of Environmental Factors