May 2025 Train Chaos Was Avoidable – Here’s Why: NSW Government ignored 4 warnings from former rail executives and ignored a Parliamentary Inquiry recommendation to upgrade signalling instead of the Bankstown line conversion into Metro
EcoTransit has launched a new ActionNetwork letter writing campaign calling for the extension of the South West Rail Link to Western Sydney Airport Terminal. Write… Read More »Prioritise Sydney Trains Investment for Western Sydney Airport
The NEW CUMBERLAND LINE is a Transport for NSW Future Transport Strategy proposal and corridor from Aerotropolis to Epping via Parramatta. This is an extension… Read More »Alternative to New Cumberland Line (T5 Metro)
EcoTransit witnesses Roydon Ng & Matt Doherty speaking at the NSW Parliament Inquiry for Critical transport infrastructure supporting the Western Sydney International Airport and Western… Read More »EcoTransit calls for Sydney Trains expansion towards Western Sydney Airport
We are delighted to have contributed to the NSW Parliament Inquiry into Current and future public transport needs in Western Sydney and are encouraged by… Read More »EcoTransit supports findings of Inquiry into Western Sydney Public Transport
EcoTransit Sydney thanks the City of Parramatta Council for the opportunity to make a submission for the Parramatta 2050 strategy. As one of Sydney’s longstanding… Read More »Parramatta 2050 Future Transport
EcoTransit supports the Sydney Trains Network and expresses disappointment at both the NSW Liberal Government and NSW Labor proposals for the expansion of rail in… Read More »Better Options for Sydney Trains for West of Bankstown & Western Sydney Airport
Article Extract from Joanne Vella from The Daily Telegraph/Parramatta Advertiser Fears are growing the second stage of the Parramatta light rail will go on the… Read More »New community push for Parramatta light rail stage two
Prof David Levinson, founding president of WalkSydney and Professor of Transport Engineering at the University of Sydney gives a fascinating speech about traffic signals. In… Read More »Public forum with Prof David Levinson – traffic signals and making walking better
Ecotransit members Colin Schroeder and Andrew Chuter talk about using two lanes of the Cahill Expressway as dedicated bus lanes and providing train, light rail,… Read More »What should we do with the Cahill Expresway?
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