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Sydney’s troubled metro rail project has been attacked over a plan to use Leichhardt’s Lambert Park, popular with kids’ soccer teams, as a construction site for five years.
The Sydney Metro Authority claims that the $8.3 billion project will slash travel times between the half-way line and goal by at least three minutes. Time savings like that could make junior soccer watchable.
Originally intended to connect Central Station with Westmead, the West Metro project will be cancelled in stages, with a goal of opening about 7½ metres of underground railway in 2018.
The Lambert Park issue is being touted as a threat to Balmain Labor MP Verity Firth in 2011, although come election time, the party would have problems holding their own dicks, let alone Balmain.
Who would have thought an underground mass rapid transit system didn't quite fit into a low-density area?
