EcoTransit Sydney submission on the Bays West Stage 1 Draft Master Plan (White Bay Power Station [and Metro] and Robert St sub-precincts) 1. Introduction EcoTransit… Read More »EcoTransit Sydney submission on the Bays West Stage 1 Draft Master Plan
Ecotransit collaborated with Friends of Erskineville and WalkSydney to host an online Zoom forum with historian and author Prof Peter Norton from the University of… Read More »Public forum with Prof Peter Norton
Key Issues Above image: Draft Bankstown Station Design (with Bankstown Train Station on left, uncovered pedestrian plaza in the middle, and Metro station on right).… Read More »West of Bankstown – the forgotten commuters
The Sydney Metro West has been presented to the people of New South Wales as the only option to improve public transport to Sydney’s western… Read More »Sydney Metro West vs Sydney Trains Alternative
EcoTransit is a not-for-profit, public advocacy group promoting public and active transport. Publictransport must play the most important role in making Cumberland and Western Sydney… Read More »Transport in Cumberland LGA
The Fifth Estate: Video: Gavin Gatenby & David Kirby on WestConnex & history repeating (2 July 2015)
In the late 1970s in Sydney it was the South-West freeway, now the M5, that drew heavy opposition.
Today it’s the WestConnex, but as far as EcoTransit Sydney’s Gavin Gatenby is concerned the fundamentals have not changed.Read More »Video: Gavin Gatenby & David Kirby on WestConnex & history repeating
Video: Gavin Gatenby & David Kirby, QC, BA, LLB. on WestConnex & history repeating. The Fifth Estate: Unfinished Business – The Kyeemagh-Chullora Road Inquiry and… Read More »Unfinished Business – The Kyeemagh–Chullora Road Inquiry and the future of Sydney
The Wolli Creek Valley is inner south-west Sydney’s environmental gem but might have been an 8-lane freeway. It was saved by Sydney’s longest conservation fight.… Read More »Saving Wolli Creek trailer
A record of the first services on, and official opening of, the extension of Sydney’s light rail service from Lilyfield to Dulwich Hill on 27… Read More »Dulwich Hill light rail – the opening
SMH: How the light rail extension really got off the ground Gavin Gatenby (March 27, 2014)
The way Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian tells it, Thursday’s opening of the Dulwich Hill light rail extension is entirely the achievement of the O’Farrell Government.Read More »How the light rail extension really got off the ground
702 ABC Sydney: Does the new Inner West Light Rail deliver the best for users? By Matthew Bevan (27 March, 2014)
Some elements of the Inner West Light Rail Extension may leave a little to be desired, according to a transport expert.Read More »Does the new Inner West Light Rail deliver the best for users?
EcoTransit Sydney’s Gavin Gatenby shows that new rail infrastructure costs in New South Wales have spiralled out of control over the last decade … to… Read More »The great rail infrastructure rip-off
AltMedia: New calls to complete Eastern Suburbs Railway May 9, 2013
Controversy over the CBD and South East Light Rail project has reignited debate about the incomplete Eastern Suburbs Railway line, with Surry Hills residents claiming its completion could negate the need for the light rail project.Read More »New calls to complete Eastern Suburbs Railway
AltMedia: Fresh impetus for Oxford St light rail April 25, 2013
Local political and business leaders have vowed to continue the fight for light rail along Oxford St, despite the State Government’s decision to build Sydney’s first new light rail lines since the year 2000 on Devonshire St instead of Oxford St.Read More »Fresh impetus for Oxford St light rail
Nick Greiner’s WestConnex proposal would cost at least $15 billion and take more than a decade to complete. In this video series EcoTransit Sydney will… Read More »WestConnex: Greiner’s folly – Part 1: A project overtaken by events
In 2012 NSW’s O’Farrell Government announced that Sydney’s long-awaited North West Rail Link would proceed, but only as a metro-style, privatised operation. In addition, the Epping-Chatswood tunnel and its stations would be modified so that it could not be used by modern double-deck suburban trains.Read More »Unfit for purpose
WasteConnex is THE highest priority project for construction, consulting and finance. Thirty-three kilometres of tollways will transform tollway revenue collection and provide vital state support… Read More »WasteConnex – Infrastructure NSW’s highest priority project