#westconnex

[sentientglue]

been collecting vintage tiles for the surface of the studio work bench I’m building. a bunch of these were sourced from demolition sites in the path of Sydney’s WestConnex motorway, scraps of vintage fireplaces rescued from the rubble by another local artist.

aiming to use recycled/second hand materials where possible…sourcing recycled timber next week <3

[andthebubbles]

uh, lol. just read about the federal govt's funding cuts to road infrastructure and stuff (x)

i hope they get the katoomba to lithgow one back, because it gets so slow between there because people don't know how to drive

the M7-M12 interchange losing funding is hilarious because that might turn into a weird motorway that isn't linked to anything. or, more likely, it'll be linked with a traffic light, like the M2 is to northconnex, and it's just stupid (ORRRR they'll toll the M12 to fund it! wow!)

also lmfao at the M7 toll being extended for 3 years to fund its widening from 2 to 3 lanes... i see what you did there.......... at least westconnex built a 3 lane tunnel from the off

[ddpproperty]

Impact of Infrastructure Development on Sydney’s Property Market

Infrastructure development has a significant impact on property markets worldwide, and Sydney is no exception. For anyone interested in this market, including a Buyers Agent Sydney, understanding these impacts is crucial. Here are key ways in which infrastructure development influences Sydney’s property market:

1. Increased Property Values

Accessibility and Connectivity: New transport links, such as train lines, roads, and bridges, improve accessibility and connectivity, making previously hard-to-reach areas more desirable. This typically leads to an increase in property values.

Example: The completion of the Sydney Metro Northwest has significantly boosted property prices in suburbs like Rouse Hill and Cherrybrook due to improved commute times to the city center.

2. Enhanced Livability

Urban Amenities: Infrastructure projects often bring urban amenities like parks, shopping centers, and recreational facilities. Enhanced livability attracts more buyers and renters, driving demand.

Example: The Green Square redevelopment project has transformed an industrial area into a vibrant residential community with parks, a library, and a creative arts center, boosting property demand and prices in the surrounding suburbs.

3. Development Opportunities

Rezoning and Land Use: Infrastructure projects often lead to rezoning and changes in land use regulations, creating opportunities for new residential and commercial developments.

Example: The WestConnex motorway project has led to rezoning around major intersections and interchanges, encouraging new housing developments and commercial projects.

4. Economic Growth

Job Creation: Major infrastructure projects create jobs, both during construction and through the new businesses and services that follow. Economic growth increases the purchasing power of residents, supporting higher property prices.

Example: The Barangaroo precinct has not only created thousands of construction jobs but has also attracted major businesses, boosting the local economy and property values in the area.

5. Supply and Demand Dynamics

Population Growth: Improved infrastructure can lead to population growth as people move to areas with better amenities and job opportunities. Increased demand for housing can drive up prices.

Example: The South West Rail Link has made areas like Leppington and Edmondson Park more accessible, leading to population growth and increased demand for housing.

6. Speculative Investment

Investor Interest: Investors often anticipate the positive effects of infrastructure projects and buy properties in advance, leading to speculative price increases.

Example: The proposed Western Sydney Airport has led to a surge in property investments in nearby suburbs like Badgerys Creek and Bringelly, with expectations of future value appreciation.

7. Market Stability

Long-Term Stability: Well-planned infrastructure projects contribute to the long-term stability and resilience of the property market by ensuring sustainable growth and development.

Example: Continuous improvements in Sydney’s public transport infrastructure have supported steady growth in property values, even during broader economic downturns.

Challenges and Considerations

1. Overdevelopment

Risk of Oversupply: Rapid development can sometimes lead to an oversupply of properties, potentially causing a short-term dip in prices.

Mitigation: Balanced development planning and staged releases of new properties can help mitigate this risk.

2. Displacement

Gentrification: Infrastructure improvements can lead to gentrification, displacing long-term residents and changing the character of neighborhoods.

Mitigation: Policies to support affordable housing and community services can help manage the impact of gentrification.

3. Environmental Impact

Sustainability Concerns: Infrastructure projects can have environmental impacts, which may affect the desirability of certain areas.

Mitigation: Incorporating sustainable practices and green infrastructure can enhance the long-term appeal of development projects.

Conclusion

Infrastructure development plays a crucial role in shaping Sydney’s property market. By improving accessibility, enhancing livability, creating development opportunities, and stimulating economic growth, infrastructure projects drive property demand and value. However, it is essential to manage the associated challenges to ensure sustainable and inclusive growth. Proper planning and policy measures can help maximize the positive impacts of infrastructure development on Sydney’s property market, making it an area of great interest for a Buyers Agent Sydney.

[the-happy-man]

In the late 1950s Sydney ripped up its tram network, once one of the largest in the world. Nearly 1,000 trams – some only a few years old – were rolled to the workshops in the city’s eastern suburbs and stripped of anything that could be sold, before being unceremoniously tipped on their sides, doused with sump oil and set ablaze.

Now the trams are returning, as the city painfully rebuilds a tiny part of its old system. The construction of 12.8km of light rail from Circular Quay to Randwick and Kingsford will cost $2.7bn at the latest estimate, has caused untold misery to shops and other businesses in its path and will be almost a year overdue by the time even the first section is open.

The new line hardly represents a fundamental shift in Sydney’s transport thinking, coming as it does alongside the vast “congestion-busting” WestConnex freeway project, and further investment in metro rail (a separate light rail link is also under construction at Parramatta). But it is a reminder that the city might have looked very different today but for the decision taken in the 1950s – and ruthlessly carried out – to prioritise motor transport.

Mathew Hounsell, a senior research consultant at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology, Sydney, has called the destruction of the network “the largest organised vandalism in our nation’s history.”

He says the decisions made in the 50s had a disastrous long-term effect. “When the trams were removed from Sydney, mass transport patronage plummeted and private car usage soared. Our space-saving trams were replaced with ever-more space-hungry cars, causing ever-worsening traffic.”

That wasn’t how the planners saw it at the time. They were strongly swayed by powerful international influences, which chimed with the unstoppable rise of private car ownership in Australia.

As Graeme Davison relates in his book Car Wars, a succession of Australians studied traffic engineering in the US in the 50s, some under a scholarship sponsored by the Myer family, and brought back an evangelical commitment to urban freeways. And, as one engineer from Los Angeles invited to advise on Melbourne’s traffic future put it: “All large American cities that were beating traffic tangles were getting rid of trams.”

The people of the past seem happier than we, yeah? The fools.

[melbournenewsvine]

The beauty spot in Sydney!? Thats the Anzac Bridge too far Prime Minister

Could the Prime Minister be serious when he said that the Anzac Bridge was “one of Sydney’s most beautiful areas”? He was explaining why he had kyboshed a plan to place five long bridges crosswise over the roads to the Anzac Bridge, to display traffic information. If he had been driving west at the time he thought so, would he have looked to his right, at the old White Bay Power Station, which he said a few years ago – and rightly so – he wouldn’t mind demolishing? If not, would the granaries possibly decorated the Sydney Olympics with images of athletes painted in expensive brown paint, delicately topping the world’s tallest billboard, takeaway sandwiches? The plan for the gigantic ANZAC Bridge, as envisaged here, was rejected by Prime Minister Dominique Perrottet. Perhaps, though, looking to his left, he was temporarily blinded by the startling ugliness of the five-story boat garage. Or straight ahead, to Mao from the devastatingly unimpressive slug that is Westconnex. On the other hand, he may have been driving east, and was momentarily mentally impaired by the long sewers of Victoria Road, six lanes of misery 24/7 in either direction. beautiful? really? Who knows how a smart man could think of such a thing? Rozelle Interchange Update. White Bay, near Victoria Road and the Anzac Bridge. attributed to him:Stephen Siewert There are beautiful parts of Sydney, but this is not one of them. Nor is the Anzac Bridge not a traffic engineer type Taj Mahal. It is a bridge. It works adequately. not fall off. Bypassing it, despite the opinions of respected colleagues, is not some kind of fruitful experience. I know. I cross it regularly in the car, on the bike, on foot. I know every last inch of the thing, and I’m not loud. loading If Transport NSW wanted to build giant bridges across this monotonous structure to annoy drivers heading east to comply with speed limits, or to warn those heading west that they were about to drift into the voracious jaws of the Westconnex, they’d end up – white face, screaming, $10 Out of pocket – in Cammeray when they were trying to get to Burwood, then they must move on. Source link Originally published at Melbourne News Vine

[vanishingsydney]

The hotel with no name and no beer. Edwardian era lodging house c.1905 near a now demolished old ferry wharf on reclaimed land. Currently surrounded on three sides by a dive site for the highly controversial Westconnex road tunnel project. Now used as a low rent boarding house, but its future remains uncertain. Rozelle.

[surr0unds]

#whodrewthedicks

[johnnyshoots]

West Connex @sigmaphotoaustralia @c.r.kennedyimaging @panasonic_au #sigma2470art #panasonics1r #lmountalliance #westconnex (at Sydney Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCiHzAoH6E9/?igshid=k1o3iegu5xup

[westconnexhomes]

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[equivalentideas]

There were some giant trees here a few moments ago #sydneypark . This is just one small corner of the area being cleared. This will be a 7 lane road. If you haven't come down to the camp yet, but have been thinking about it. Today, or this evening, is the day. #westconnex

[abonethrownfromthevoid]

One of my favourite natural green spaces in my area is getting trees taken down, holes bored into it, and excavation done under it for the fucking westconnex

[ebola-kun]

Sydney Speedway is actually all agitated, and our team're listening to the same outdated song

"Exist!" The Sydney Speedway, alongside the M4 at Parramatta, was once therefore heavily embedded in western Sydney's subconscious the '80s TELEVISION adds merely nudged folks to appear. However in what reads like the plot of an Elvis film, the small-time sprint-car field is actually fast losing track.This full week, the NSW government launched details of its own city rail line. The path runs right via the speedway. In addition to approximately 120 various other buildings, the much-loved motor racing center is set to be actually mandatorily obtained then demolished.This is actually barely a" smooth paradise, installed a car park area"moment.

Yet it talks with an emerging crevice between the government's strategy to ultra and also community-level framework. It is actually big-ticket projects versus grassroots pursuits.Although went back to workplace at the political election in March, the Berejiklian authorities was actually chastened by pushback versus its own increasing structure schedule. The Premier looks figured out not to repeat the hold-ups, overruns and also contradictions of ventures like the Sydney public transportation and also knockdown-rebuild of stadiums.On the heels of this year's Local area Northwest launch as well as the opening of the M4 East section of WestConnex, the Premier's press to acquire the reportedly$twenty billion West City

begun delivers an indicator this phrase is actually everything about commercial infrastructure delivery.The local area is undeniably needed to have. In May, the Herald stated average guest tons on the T1 railway went to even more than 140 percent capability during the course of morning heights.

Yet job is actually additionally needed to have urgently to shift Sydney's projects balance westwards and stop packing people in to presently" tasks rich "places including the Sydney CBD and also Pyrmont.Wayne Attard discusses a dive at the Parramatta Speedway.Credit: Steve Christo Where carries out every one of this leave behind the unpretentious speedway? The solution boils down to precisely what it is actually planners and policymakers are actually making an effort to achieve in company of their unclear term"liveability". "In a liveable area,"the NSW federal government mentions,"all individuals feel engaged, may take partin regional tasks and also

carry out certainly not encounter obstacles to holding out their frequent every day lives. "What happens if your tip of being"involved" in your neighborhood is getting on to the speedway? It's been the site of higher drama, disaster and victory considering that the circuit was actually noted out in the 1930s and the clay-based monitor laid in 1977.

This content was originally published here.

[voaustralia-blog]

خداحافظی مردم سیدنی با کابوس ترافیک خیابان پاراماتا

خداحافظی مردم سیدنی با کابوس ترافیک خیابان پاراماتا

صدای استرالیا- با افتتاح تونل جدید ام4 شرقی از روز شنبه مردم سیدنی می‌توانند با کابوس ترافیک خیایان پاراماتا خداحافظی کنند.

اولین تونل Westconnex که 6.5 کیلیومتر طول دارد، خیایان واتل در هابرفیلد را به ام4 در «هومبوش» متصل می‌کند و بدین ترتیب رانندگان از 22 چراغ راهنمایی راحت می‌شوند.

گلادیس برجیکلیان، نخست وزیر نیوساوت‎ولز اعلام کرده مراسم رسمی افتتاح این تونل روز جمعه برگزار می‌شود اما رفت و…

[vanishingsydney]

Almost everywhere you look, there's always some damned crane on the horizon. Lilyfield.

[nancygeorges]

You know how high @bunnings rooftops are? This WestConnex crane is huge!! #nofilter #bluesky #crane #westconnex #cantstopprogress #orcanyou (at Bunnings Ashfield)