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Do you have ideas for how we can maximise the benefits of this major infrastructure investment?
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What do the benefits of such an important project mean for yourself, your family and your community and how can we make the project more relevant to you?
The North West Rail Link will give the 300,000 people living in north west Sydney reliable rail access to Epping, Macquarie Park, Chatswood, St Leonards, North Sydney and the Sydney CBD.
At 23 km in length, the project is a public transport infrastructure project of world standard.
Commuters will be able to enjoy savings of up to 3½ hours a week in journey times to the Sydney CBD.
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Comment 1 6 Apr 2012, 9:54 AM
It's time to think about incorporating some new form of freight distribution. The link will run to shopping locations such as Castle Hill. Rather than have endless streams of semi-trailers delivering goods by road travelling through the centre of densely populated areas at all hours why not deliver by rail? A small siding at shopping centre locations for freight that could be containerised in some new way. Trucks could unload at a specific site further west. This could be making use of the rail infrastructure at night when it is not being used by commuter trains, reduce noise and air more…
Comment 1.1 12 Apr 2012, 9:11 PM
I agree with the idea of rail freight fully. Although this cannot be run into every shopping centre, but must run on a hub and spoke model. This would involve rail lines from ports going from the docks to say eastern creek, down south and also north of the CBD. Otherwise you simply congest commuter rail lines.
