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M4-M5 Link tenderers shortlisted
WestConnex boosts jobs in Hunter region
M4 James Ruse Drive on-ramp closure
WestConnex brings Western Sydney jobs boom
Parramatta M4 ramps to merge
"The Hulk" finishes work on M4
The giant green crane known as “The Hulk” working on WestConnex’s M4 widening project has completed its final lift.
Ramsay Street to reopen to traffic
Haberfield students roar and read with the Wests Tigers
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WestConnex M4 tolls
Motorists will have a one month toll-free period when the WestConnex M4 opens on 15 July 2017. This gives motorists a grace period to adjust to the changes and to ‘test...
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M4-M5 Link Concept Design
The M4-M5 Link is the third stage of WestConnex and will link the New M4 Motorway at Haberfield to the New M5 Motorway at St Peters as well as the Iron Cove Bridge and Rozelle...
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Improving the wellbeing of Sydney’s homeless with Wests Tigers and Exodus
Wests Tigers has teamed with local Ashfield charity, the Exodus Foundation, to deliver a wellbeing program for homeless Sydneysiders.Over six weeks, Wests Tigers’ staff...
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Helping pre-schoolers have the best possible start to school
Sydney Motorway Corporation will help 20 pre-schoolers with hearing loss within the WestConnex corridor to go through The Shepherd Centre’s Ready Set Go school readiness...
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Fighting fit at any age
In January 2017, Sydney Motorway Corporation provided a grant to Concord Senior Citizens Club to purchase four new playing tables for its table tennis group, so the...
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Seeking expressions of interest for the M4 East Air Quality Community Consultative Committee
Sydney Motorway Corporation (SMC) is in the process of establishing an Air Quality Community Consultative Committee (AQCCC) to provide input and advice on the location of air...
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Heritage
Our commitment to protecting local heritage is enshrined in the WestConnex Sustainability Strategy includes an overarching objective to “protect and enhance the natural...
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Skills and training
As the organisation delivering WestConnex, Sydney Motorway Corporation is driving initiatives and opportunities that build skills, provide employment opportunities and...
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Photos & Videos
WestConnex tunnelling update
Ramsay Street cut and cover
Keeping our city moving
Tunnelling begins at Bexley North
New green space in St Peters
Cleaning up the Alexandria landfill site
New inner west park and tunnel link
Upgrade at King Georges Road interchange takes shape
New life for historic sandstone
The Hulk finishes M4 Widening work
Angelo from Granville
M4 Widening equipment goes west
Tunnelling begins in Homebush
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We fully recognise the importance of Sydney Park and the investments that the City of Sydney Council and others have made in recent years.
A strip of land owned by Roads and Maritime Services adjacent to Sydney Park is being used to widen Euston Road as part of local road upgrades. This is not part of Sydney Park.
As outlined in the City of Sydney’s own management plan for Sydney Park, this land is dedicated road space and has been subject to a long-standing road widening reservation.
A small boundary strip, adjacent to the road reserve, is also required for the local road widening, however this is more than offset by the additional 8.5 hectares of open green space being created at St Peters Interchange.
Two hectares of this open green space will be directly connected to Sydney Park via a land bridge over Campbell Road.
Traffic modelling tells us the expected demand for WestConnex and the number of traffic lanes needed. The motorway has been designed to meet traffic demand now and in the future.
The number of lanes varies across the project:
- M4: we are widening the M4 Motorway from three lanes in each direction to four lanes in each direction between Parramatta and Homebush. The new M4 East tunnels between Homebush and Haberfield will be three lanes in each direction.
- New M5: when the tunnels open, there will generally be two lanes in each direction between Kingsgrove and St Peters. The tunnels can accommodate three lanes in each direction in future, with additional approvals needed for this change.
- M4–M5 Link: The M4-M5 Link will provide twin underground tunnels with four lanes in each direction between Haberfield and St Peters.
For surface road sections of the motorway, including the widened M4, the speed limit will generally be 90km/h. In tunnels, the speed limit will be 80km/h, the same as for other tunnels in Sydney. A small section connecting to Sydney Airport may have a lower speed limit.
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