The Turnbulls’ dream to make western Sydney as liveable as the east | KnottMatthew
Lucy and Malcolm Turnbull have a dream for western Sydney: for it to be more like the leafy, densely populated, pedestrian friendly terrain of Sydney’s inner city and eastern suburbs.
“So why can’t we relearn what we’ve somehow unlearnt with the advent of automobile dependence and [ensure] that green urban domain is better distributed throughout the city?”Lucy Turnbull said planning controls in the growth areas of south-west Sydney in particular had discouraged the creation of environmentally friendly, medium-density suburbs similar to those in the inner city.
In an era of climate change, Lucy Turnbull said it was crucial to combat the intense heat in western Sydney to ensure the area reaches its potential. Malcolm Turnbull agreed, saying the most dynamic and attractive areas of Canberra – a city designed for cars – were densely populated, pedestrian friendly areas such as the Kingston foreshore.When planning transport infrastructure, he said it was vital for policymakers to remember the Sydney CBD “is in fact, on the eastern perimeter of the city – it’s not central”.
He pointed to his government’s funding for the north-south rail link from St Marys to the Badgerys Creek Aerotropolis as an example of spreading transport infrastructure across the city.Malcolm Turnbull said the Nationals and some Liberal politicians were previously “allergic” to cities policy and funding for mass transit, an attitude he tried to shift as prime minister.
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