Result of the M4 EAST EXTENSION Independent SURVEY was 85% in support of the extension of the M4 in SYDNEY.
Barry O’Farrell LOP at the National Press Club in February 2011 and reported on the front pages of papers in February 2011 said that the M4 EAST EXTENSION in Sydney was stopped because it was going through Anthony Albanese the Federal Infrastructure Minister’s Seat of Grayndler, his wife Carmel Tebbutt Deputy Premier’s NSW Seat of Marrickville is in the same area.
1. BUILDING THE M4 EAST EXTENSION WILL DIRECTLY LINK THE TWO BIGGEST ADJACENT COMMERCIAL CBD CENTRES IN AUSTRALIA(Sydney CBD and Parramatta CBD) with PORT BOTANY(Largest Port for Freight in Australia) and SYDNEY AIRPORT MASCOT(Largest Airport in Australia) and the M5.- A DIRECT LINK IS URGENTLY NEEDED. This infrastructure will pay for itself and create thousands of jobs. It will stop CONGESTION and greatly increase traffic flow, greatly lower travel times. CONGESTION and its POLLUTION KILLS.
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The M4 motorway has been inundated with at least 1,000 cars an hour during the morning peak after its toll was abolished in 2010.
NSW Auditor-General Peter Achterstraat had warned that congestion on the M4 motorway will worsen when the toll was lifted by the state government at midnight on February 15 last year.
When natural population growth to Sydney’s west is added, an extra 2,000 cars would be using the M4 by 2012, he said.
“There will be more congestion and it will take more time for people to get to work if they are using the M4, ” Mr Achterstraat told reporters.
The Sydney Business Chamber said the auditor-general’s report demonstrated that any saving a driver made in not having to pay the toll would only be cancelled out in lost time as well as petrol and vehicles expenses.
Ms Forsythe named the long-touted M4 East, which would extend the current motorway from Concord to the CBD and possibly beyond, would be an obvious project for such funding.
“It is a false economy for the government and the opposition to claim this change will save commuters money,” Ms Forsythe said in a statement. “It will cost commuters in time, petrol, pollution and CO2 emissions.”
Infrastructure Partnerships Australia (IPA) echoed Ms Forsythe’s comments, saying the M4 East was the most urgent road project in the state.pe“Congestion costs NSW more than $12 million every day in lost productivity, meaning we must also look at how we can get more people onto public transport and off our roads,’’ IPA executive director Brendan Lyon said.
