Parramatta Road to undergo a revamp

The NRMA has unveiled a plan to revamp Parramatta Road and turn it into a public transport corridor between the Western suburbs and the City.

As reported in The Sydney Morning Herald, the NRMA wants the NSW government to build an $7.4 billion 8.5 kilometre M4 East under the suburbs between Concord and Sydney.

The plan would also allow the building of at 23,000 flats between the city and Strathfield transforming Parramatta Road into an area of medium density housing, shopping and cycle ways.

Parramatta Road is one of Sydney’s most congested roads in Sydney and is one of the main access routes from the West into the City.

Michelle Zeibots of the University of Technology, Sydney told The Sydney Morning Heraldthat Parramatta Road will become a “a feeder route” for the M4.

The NRMA have proposed that exit and entry portals be built at Strathfield, Lilyfield and Chippendale.

“In the past, extensions to the M4 have led to induced traffic growth and put pressure on the surrounding roads,” Zeibots told The Sydney Morning Herald.

Zeibots also said in the metro strategy, Parramatta Road is part of an “enterprise corridor” to be “considered as part of any planning extension of the M4 motorway to reduce congestion on Parramatta Road and strengthen connections between western Sydney and Sydney CBD and Port Botany.”