Westconnex

Labor representatives have come out swinging against plans to introduce weekend clearways on major arterial roads in busy inner west streets including King Street Newtown, Parramatta Road Stanmore and Sydenham Road, Marrickville.

Jo Haylen MP, Member for Summer Hill, today slammed the decision by the Berejiklian Government to release the environmental impact statement (EIS) for the third stage of WestConnex only weeks after submissions for the concept design closed.

Jo Haylen, Member for Summer Hill, joined Haberfield residents in condemning Government plans to install three 7 metre signs along the local residential street.

On Saturday 22 July I joined other local Labor Party members to participate in the Stop WestConnex Lantern procession, which was organised by the many community resident action groups that are opposed to the project. 

The Budget ignores key community infrastructure in the inner west, with only one local school receiving badly-needed classrooms and little support for residents on housing affordability, transport, or child-care. 

The Berekjiklian Government today released another glossy brochure with details on its M4-M5 link, with sites on Wattle St, Walker Ave and Northcote Street used for construction until 2022. 

A Labor government led by Luke Foley will hand back valuable land to the community after it is discarded by the monolithic WestConnex roads project. More than 18 hectares- a little over the size of Hyde Park- is up for grabs and Labor has committed that the land along the M4 East corridor will not be sold to developers.

Member for Summer Hill, Jo Haylen, has called plans to conduct geotechnical drilling in the driveway of sick and elderly Haberfield residents “callous, cruel and utterly unnecessary.”

The Berejiklian Government has refused to rule out building a dangerous dive site next to an Inner West school, as part of its plans for Westconnex.