New lanes being added and footpath narrowed for new 3,300 car park, Broadway

(Apology for pedestrian giving the works the finger in the artwork.)

Frasers will slow city traffic with their new project, and we’re looking at more minutes added to the journey for buses and cars going to and from the city.

The 30,000 students at UTS and Sydney Institute  and the 40,000 + students at Sydney uni and the thousands of citizens who walk the pavement will have their pavement reduced by 1.5 m.  This will increase congestion, aggression and violence in the already jam-packed student throngs and late night crowds there.  Remember when the city widened its pavements to reduce late night violence and the success that followed?

Frasers are putting a right hand turn lane from Broadway to their new project to invite cars to get in and out of their new 3,300 space car park.

To accommodate Frasers’ profit-taking from their site the median strip is being deleted and the footpaths narrowed.

A gift to us from the state government and Frasers.

The new car park will generate over 6,000 new car movements a day.

Thank goodness the Frasers project is ‘sustainable’.  How can it be ‘sustainable’ you may ask when it’s adding several thousand car movements, several thousand tonnes of air pollution, reducing the attractiveness of walking and cycling, and the trees there have been cut down, and the urban heat island increased by a few degrees?

That’s a silly and aggressive question if you did ask it.  Have you no faith?

The developer says the project will be ‘sustainable’; surely you don’t doubt that?

Me, I just enjoy the entertainment and play with words here and I think that’s the real gift of the project; laughter.

Speaking of laughter; if Piers Ackerman from The Daily Telegraph is right, and I think he is, Frasers may end up swimming in its own greed and the city trips may become shorter and the air cleaner;  have a look at this and ask, where will Frasers be if Piers is right:

www.dailytelegraph.com…

May the doubts and the laughs be with you,

M

Billion dollar stormwater control

Walking back down Broadway today I checked the stormwater pond on the north western corner of the billion dollar Frasers’ Broadway project.  The photo shows world best practice stormwater control which is directing muddy water off site to Blackwattle Bay.  A pit in the centre of the muddy pond has some fabric pinned into the mud by four star pickets and the water in the pond fills and enters through the fabric to the stormwater pipes and thence to the harbour.   Last night’s rain and mud is visible in the stormwater pits today as the billion dollar project continues to allow excavation mud to wash off.  It appears as tho’ the shopping trolley won’t fit into the pit’s drain.

Brown mud in grate from Fraser's building site, Broadway

On Saturday, yesterday, I took a photo of brown muddy water in the stormwater grate on the southern side of Broadway at the intersection with Abercrombie.  The pollution was from the rain last week.

Now the stormwater from the Fraser’s site has been piped underground along the footpath to discharge into the grate below ground we will no longer see this pollution when it happens.  From here the stormwater runs into Blackwattle Bay beside the Fish Markets where it pollutes Sydney Harbour.

Meanwhile, in the soon to be opened sales office about 100 metres from the pollution further up Broadway, it’s terrific to see the vertical garden inside the new building.

This is one site with two stories.

M