A quick update:
1. TMR Consultations are on-going, please visit if you can. On the weekend, I will add the remaining events.
1. TMR Consultations are on-going, please visit if you can. On the weekend, I will add the remaining events.
2. TMR Online Survey is open. You need to register here: https://coomeraconnector.tmr.qld.gov.au/coomera-connector-s…
If the road has to be built, there are options in the survey to prefer a 4-lane, not 6-lane, and a ground-level lower speed road, not a motorway. There are also two questions (17 and 18) where you can give your reasons for opposing the Second M1, and suggesting how the money should be spent better. See the feedback I provided below.
3. If you want to be a bit more involved in opposing the Second M1, you can join our group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/637517416777136
4. Many affected residents still don't know what the government is planning for them. Spread the word.
5. We need a website to keep in touch with people who don't use facebook. If time allows, I will look into it on the weekend.
6. Would you like to meet face to face? Please join the group and we will coordinate the time and place.
7. I have reached out to UQ Professor in Planning Neil G Sipe - I would love to have a public forum with planning and transport experts. What do you think? Would you be interested in attending?
Tom Andraszek, 13 Nov 2019
p.s. Our petition to Qld Parliament ended with 657 signatures. It had a big jump in the last week. Thank you to everyone who signed and helped spread the word! If you provided your e-mail address while signing, you will get a reply from the government directly. I will also post it here.
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17. Do you support the Coomera Connector as a transport solution?
No
Please explain why
Would YOU like a motorway in your backyard? It is too close to thousands of homes: noise and air pollution levels would be unacceptable. It is taking us in the wrong direction: about 85% of trips in all of Gold Coast (probably 95% in northern GC) are by car, we should be investing in public transport, not another road. It takes the land that is a de-facto wildlife corridor in many areas. It will not fix congestion on M1: the induced demand will bring traffic on M1 to the same level it is now, within a few years of opening the Second M1. A better option is to invest in a public and active transport networks, so when the de-congestion pricing needs to be applied to M1 (and it will), there are viable alternatives. If you really have to build something, to accommodate population growth, extend the light rail from Helensvale to Pimpama, and build a cycle path and a max 4 lane, 50 km/h road along it. Cycling (or walking, or living) along a motorway is not fun.
18. Do you have any other comments or suggestions for how the Coomera Connector project could be improved?
Yes. If the goal is to keep M1 flowing for a long time to come (20-30 years?), spend the $20m that was allocated, on researching other options how the $2.4B can be spent: investing in public and active transport networks: fast or high speed rail, heavy rail, light rail, trackless tram, electric buses, even metro - the real one, not the Brisbane kind - the Madrid underground metro was built for only 41m euros per km in 1995-98: https://tunnelbuilder.com/metrosur/edition2pdf/page2.pdf. De-congestion could be done at almost no cost if there was a political will: https://www.fastcompany.com/.../5-lessons-from-stockholms... Be the leader for positive change. Do not implement the worst 1960s plans in 2020.
No
Please explain why
Would YOU like a motorway in your backyard? It is too close to thousands of homes: noise and air pollution levels would be unacceptable. It is taking us in the wrong direction: about 85% of trips in all of Gold Coast (probably 95% in northern GC) are by car, we should be investing in public transport, not another road. It takes the land that is a de-facto wildlife corridor in many areas. It will not fix congestion on M1: the induced demand will bring traffic on M1 to the same level it is now, within a few years of opening the Second M1. A better option is to invest in a public and active transport networks, so when the de-congestion pricing needs to be applied to M1 (and it will), there are viable alternatives. If you really have to build something, to accommodate population growth, extend the light rail from Helensvale to Pimpama, and build a cycle path and a max 4 lane, 50 km/h road along it. Cycling (or walking, or living) along a motorway is not fun.
18. Do you have any other comments or suggestions for how the Coomera Connector project could be improved?
Yes. If the goal is to keep M1 flowing for a long time to come (20-30 years?), spend the $20m that was allocated, on researching other options how the $2.4B can be spent: investing in public and active transport networks: fast or high speed rail, heavy rail, light rail, trackless tram, electric buses, even metro - the real one, not the Brisbane kind - the Madrid underground metro was built for only 41m euros per km in 1995-98: https://tunnelbuilder.com/metrosur/edition2pdf/page2.pdf. De-congestion could be done at almost no cost if there was a political will: https://www.fastcompany.com/.../5-lessons-from-stockholms... Be the leader for positive change. Do not implement the worst 1960s plans in 2020.
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