Category: ETTT
Third Track
The Issue – how to make the best of a bad job!
This rail transport project through the heart of Pennant Hills will result in:
- major traffic disruption during the 4 year construction phase
- a narrowing of Yarrara Road at the Ramsay Road intersection
- Yarrara Road trees replaced by grasses and shrubs
- ugly sound barriers along Wongala Crescent
- loss of the trees that made for a pleasant station oasis
- changes to the station that maximise rather than minimise the impact
- a station structure completely out of character with the area
- a third platform addition, the rationale for which defies logic
- a station more concerned about maintenance cost than user comfort
- a new footbridge that is much less convenient than the old one
- a freight train holding bay from Wells St Bridge to Wongala Crescent
- increased exposure to carcinogenic diesel engine exhaust fume
- increased coal dust from uncovered coal wagons
- increased rail noise pollution, on top of existing intolerable levels