Transport

Be bold and plan for separated bike lanes on key local network routes. City of Sydney are doing it. Not necessarily on Military/Spit/Belmont Roads, there are wide residential roads running parallel on many stretches. At the same time get the electricity & telephone cables underground. Residents on affected streets will get improved amenity & the trees will not be butchered. Safe cycleways would encourage more short trips (school/shops/etc) to be made on bikes but only if it is quicker and more convenient than driving/parking.

Sorry this is just selfish – Sydney will grow to 7 million people very shortly and all you want is 6% population growth and no transport?

And why should Roseville suffer to get rail to the Northern Beaches? Mosman is the quickest way and the most populated.

You’re not prepared to ‘suffer’ underground rail but somehow an underground freeway, far more disruptive is acceptable. Why is that?

This is just Mosmanites being their stereotype. No wonder people look at you if you say you are from Mosman. Is this what you want?

Its simply preposterous to suggest that Mosman council will be able to render its LGA immune from high levels of population growth projected for Sydney as a whole. Developers will only find Mosman more attractive as other parts of the inner-city get denser.

Furthermore, even if Mosman can restrain its growth (unlikely), suburbs east of the spit bridge will continue to grow – resulting in growing congestion on the Military Rd corridor.

A car lane can only carry 900 vehicles/hour – Mosman is slated to become an inaccessible traffic hell under the council’s vision (if it isn’t already). An underground metro line/light railway can carry 20,000 pax/hr+… and being much faster than car travel will only serve to add to the village atmosphere that your strategy seeks for military rd

Buses are noisy, slow and dirty and have no place in a modern metropolis. Bus lanes are ineffective when queues form and make it extremely unpleasant to walk along the footpath. There is no way people will choose buses over cars

Linking the northern beaches to the freeway network is not feasible – there is no more space on the harbour bridge/tunnel to accomodate increased road transport

Finally, the council seems to assume that population growth is a bad thing. In fact, growth = longer trading hours, and increased sustainability for local business, added safety as more people are around on the streets, increased rate revenue for improved community facilities and services, added demand for extra transport services. Medium to high density structures have the potential to be sympathetic to surrounding environments… this being the issue that has to be considered

According to me any city transportation is Judged on how it treats its pedestrians and disabled people.Focus and improvement on assets by keeping this objective will keep Mosman as one of the best living places .

I also believe that a metro may be the only option to avoid congestion along the Military/Spit Road corridor in the future – but does this have to mean high density? If you look at most European cities they seem to have efficient modes of public transport combined with MEDIUM density – a far more attractive and, if the latest research holds, more sustainable urban form.

Our bus service from Military Road (cnr Parriwi Street) to the city in the morning is just appauling. They have slashed services to our stop with the E70 & E68 no longer stopping in the morning. As a result we have to wait ages for a bus. Then when one finally arrives our stop is so popular with so many units and apartments
close by we practically fill the entire bus.
To make matters worse we have to endure the all stops the whole drag along Military road. When previously on the E70 & E68 they only stopped until Spit Junction then sailed thru. Now we just see the E70 & E68 drive past with plenty of room for us but they cannot stop for us. The thing that just doesn’t make sence is that these buses can stop for us on the way home. CRAZY
The mornings are causing me stress. Living at Mosman close to the city you would think getting to work would be easier !!

We need a morning school bus serving Balmoral to the Mosman primary schools – especially Mosman Public, Beauty Point and Middle Harbour. At present, children can get the 637 bus home from the school in the afternoon, but there is nothing to get them there in the morning. A morning bus service would take a lot of cars off the road – I know so many families who would use this service!

For transport there is only one sustainable option and that is metro. There are a plethora of interim solutions but none of which answer the problems of capacity. The Lower North Shore is one of the most densely populated areas of Australia and to think buses can continue to effectively service the local area is blind optimism. What concerns me with the vision put forward is an inability to provide workable long-term solutions to the congestion faced. The Military Road corridor must have a metro line, it’s unfair and obstructionist to promote any alternative long-term vision. Lobbying for a Roseville rail link is to be applauded but to shy away from any link through the Lower North Shore is unacceptable – we require both lines.

The cost to bridge or tunnel The Spit is an obstacle that needs to be tackled at some point in the future, to deny residents a voice in the matter is relegating them to chocked, polluted streets for the next 40 years. Underground bus/road lanes are simply throwing money at unsustainable options that still ignore the real problems of future capacity – it also alludes to elitism. Metro rail should be developed for the amenity of all inner-city residents. With it comes better opportunities, cleaner transport, and the potential to gentrify and create a Military Road to be proud of. We need to build for the future and not simply address the needs of today.

Transport through the area is beyond acceptable, but as a simple short-term solution that has the ability to provide limited but effective congestion reductions we should be canvassing State Government to replace all articulated buses and many normal buses with Enviro 500 double-decker units. We should also consider running double-deckers through all peak periods, especially for longer express services such as the L88 and L90s, it could effectively halve the current bus congestion in the morning and afternoon rush hours.

The availability of buses on the Spit Road during peak times is really disappointing. It seems like this really became an issue around 2 timetables changes ago when the number of buses stopping on this route were cut back. It is now not uncommon to wait with a crowd of fellow commuters for up to 25 minutes. I am luckily fairly early on this route and commuters on at my stop do quite often fill the bus thus leading to a larger wait time for other commuters at subsequent stops for whom there is no room.