Sydney’s
first T-way passes through 35 stations on its 31 km journey from
Liverpool to Parramatta. This is the story of one of those stations,
and the town centre it now serves, told from the perspective of
local government.
The imperative to construct a new piece of public transport infrastructure
in a tight timeframe through a place that had been developed with
only the expectation of roads to serve its transport needs presented
challenges for all those involved. How do you make the most of
the opportunities it presents, and how do you manage the potential
threats. How do you integrate the priorities of a place, with
those of a public transport system? Where do you make compromises?
Do you compromise the efficiency of the system, or do you compromise
the functioning of the place? And how do you involve the people
who live there, or who have already invested in the place, or
who intend investing in the place?
The following presentation explores these questions as they presented
themselves in the Bonnyrigg Town Centre, a place with its own
unique characteristics and needs.
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