sydney-city-centre-review-of-environmental-factors

R3: Sussex Street (one option)
Traffic
efficiency
The option would benefit road users by introducing traffic efficiencies,
reducing congestion and improving traffic flows allowing this road to be
promoted as a priority bypass corridor as per the Access Strategy (refer to
section 2.1).
Amenity
Kerbside
use
The most efficient method of achieving this would be to remove, timerestrict
and modify the parking and loading along the kerbside given the
limited space within the road corridor and there being no alternative to
reduce the kerbside or footpath widths to achieve additional lanes in either
direction.
The option would improve the road user experience for traffic wishing to
bypass the core city centre roads by setting both southbound and
northbound priorities. This would provide much needed capacity in light of
the planned closure of part of George Street and the reprioritisation
of York Street, Clarence Street and King Street.
The offered solution would compromise the existing kerbside allocations
towards the southern end of the work site and modifies the allocations
elsewhere.
Business
impacts
Summary
This would allow the corridor to function as a bypass route. There is no
reasonable option to maintain kerbside parking and loading towards the
southern end of the work site as the road corridor is too narrow to
introduce additional lanes.
By providing this solution this would benefit road users across the city
whilst resulting in localised parking and loading impacts.
The proposal would benefit businesses that use the road corridor to transit
north and south throughout the city.
The proposal would introduce additional loading zones along the kerbside
to benefit businesses and to compensate for losses elsewhere.
The option identified for this pinch point would achieve the proposal
objectives as it would support the growing demand for access on this
priority corridor and improve road network functionality for northbound and
southbound traffic. The option was limited to the proposed solution given
the restricted space within the road corridor to sufficiently improve
northbound and southbound traffic flows, therefore one option was
promoted.
R4: Clarence Street (two options)
Traffic
efficiency
Both options would introduce traffic capacity, reduce congestion and
improve traffic flows.
At present, traffic capacity and traffic flows are compromised as a result of
buses mixing with the general traffic as they cannot use the kerbside lane.
Moving the bus lane from the kerbside as proposed under ‘option a’ would
remove an existing conflict. In doing so it would benefit both bus users
and road users by reducing congestion and improving traffic flows.
Additional capacity would be created by reallocating the kerbside
allocations during the peak periods.
‘Option b’ would introduce less capacity as there would still be the
conflicts in the kerbside lane. It would not alleviate congestion as well as
‘option a’, bringing less benefit to bus users and road users, especially
during the peak periods.
Sydney City Centre Capacity Improvement 39
Review of Environmental Factors