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I have removed the recently added section regarding the history of the Cumberland Plan by user:Mqst north. It is far too broad to be put into this article (and also is not written with the standard Wikipedia Manual of Style and Neutral tone). However, it is good detailed information that does need to be kept and either turned into an article about the Cumberland County plan or something equivalent of the Public transport in Sydney article.
This is the text I removed:
The original structure of suburban Sydney resembled a starfish, with residential development restricted to the relatively narrow corridors around railway and tram lines. Employment was highly centralised, with factories and warehouses located in inner-city suburbs such as Marrickville and Pyrmont, close to the convergence of the state's long-distance railway lines, as well as the docks of Sydney Harbour.
By the end of World War II however, it had become clear that motor vehicles would play an increasingly significant role in the city's development. The road-building plan that emerged as part of the 1948 Cumberland County Plan effectively replicated the railways' and tramways' focus on moving travellers from the outer suburbs to and from the central business district (CBD). The Cumberland Plan's radial motorway network was never realised in full, but by identifying the corridors for the new roads in advance, the planners successfully reduced future construction costs, at least outside of the high-density urban core. [1]
Construction proceeded slowly, with Sydney's first controlled-access highway, the Cahill Expressway, opening 10 years later. The pace had accelerated by the late 1960s, with isolated sections of the proposed Warringah, Newcastle, North Western, Western and Southern freeways open to traffic by 1971.
Soon after, the relevance of the (by now defunct) County Council's plan came under sustained pressure from major social and economic shifts. An increasing number of commuters were now travelling from dwellings in one suburb to workplaces in another, avoiding the CBD altogether, as manufacturers moved to less constrained greenfield sites in the suburbs. At the same time, large-scale suburban malls drew shoppers away from the CBD and local corner shops; knowledge industries took root in spacious suburban campus-style developments; and Sydney Harbour and Central Station progressively lost freight and passengers to Port Botany and Sydney Airport. [1]
Motorways themselves also came under attack, with the Green Bans movement and others campaigning against completion of the North Western, Warringah and Eastern freeways. After narrowly winning the 1976 election and facing a deteriorating budget situation, the Australian Labor Party under Neville Wran capitalised on this antipathy by withdrawing funding from a range of contentious transport infrastructure projects. Work was allowed to continue outside the inner city, however, with the Newcastle, Southern and Western freeways continuing to grow through the Wran years. [2]
Responding to the city's evolution, the then Department of Main Roads revised its thinking about the motorway network, with the Government releasing the landmark Roads 2000 report in 1987. The centrepiece of the plan was an 'orbital' motorway to improve cross-suburban journey, while completing the missing east-west links north and south of the harbour. The orbital took 20 years to complete. [3]
Sincerely, Witty lama 08:04, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
Proposed railways in_Sydney#County of Cumberland Plan.2C 1951 also contains reference to it. Fleet Lists ( talk) 09:01, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
I've copied the above to Talk:County of Cumberland planning scheme as a suggested merge to see what people think. Ben Aveling 03:41, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
Added: an introductory summary paragraph. Added: explanation of the min/max/distance/inflation components of the toll. Added: list of funding per source. Not added: a breakdown of how the cost has grown over time. Does anyone have a good link to something on this? Regards, Ben Aveling 11:47, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
I'm on the far side of the planet and know nothing about Sydney's road network ... but came across the public art project Canal to Creek while looking at UK artist Gordon Young who is contributing. It appears that the project is part of WestConnex - should it have a mention in this article? There are (will be?) 18 public art works. Pam D 10:52, 11 August 2021 (UTC)