The Glebe Island Bridge is in urgent need of repairs to stop it deteriorating and to ensure it can one day be returned to its former glory, the City of Sydney says | Mattonews
The City of Sydney has also urged Transport for NSW and the Department of Planning to investigate reducing or eliminating ramps and roadways from the Western Distributor, and pursuing a "more holistic study which considers the feasibility of undergrounding of the route as far as possible".
The Committee for Sydney said removing the motorway in stages, in tandem with investments in public transport, would transform Pyrmont and the area around it."We are not naive about the scale of this undertaking, but we believe it would make eminent sense for government to understand what the options are," the advocacy group said.
"[It] also identified a number pathway and cycleway connections that could be provided over time to try to better connect the areas either side of the Western Distributor," the department said.Like the Cahill Expressway at Circular Quay, the Western Distributor is widely regarded as an eyesore in the central city. The latter was built in stages from the 1970s, and its final extension was to the Anzac Bridge, which was completed in 2000.
As part of the plans to effectively make Pyrmont an extension of the Sydney CBD, the government has given strong indications in recent months that it will build aas part of its $20 billion-plus metro rail project between the central city and Westmead, near Parramatta.
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