Marrickville Tunnel
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The Marrickville Tunnel is a possible underground road tunnel that would link Sydney's Kingsford Smith International Airport with an undetermined location on Parramatta Road. Two possibilities mentioned in the media have been a link to Lewisham, whilst others mention a possible connection to the end of the Metroad 4 motorway at Strathfield.
The rationale for such a road is that Sydney is rapidly approaching a complete ring road, with the section of Parramatta Road between the Anzac Bridge and Strathfield being the last and only non-motorway section of a complete and useful Sydney Orbital Motorway. A tunnel may help to remove trucks transporting goods to and from the airport and Botany Bay from non-motorway roads, and could potentially reduce "rat-running" (whereby commuters opt to drive to and from work using suburban back-roads instead of main roads, because the main roads are too overcrowded and slow at peak hour).
[edit] External links
- Sydney Morning Herald article: "The next idea for the M4 - dig".
- Possible route from Lewisham to the airport.
- Marrickville Transport Action Group and marrickvilletag.org.
| Major road infrastructure in Sydney | |
|---|---|
| Motorways | Cross City Motorway | Eastern Distributor | Lane Cove Tunnel | M2 Hills Motorway | M4 Western Motorway | M5 South Western Motorway | Westlink M7 |
| Freeways | Southen Cross Drive | Southern Freeway | Sydney-Newcastle Freeway | Warringah Freeway | Gore Hill Freeway |
| Metroads | Metroad 1 | Metroad 2 | Metroad 3 | Metroad 4 | Metroad 5 | Metroad 6 | Metroad 7 | Metroad 9 | Metroad 10 |
| Bridges & Tunnels | Sydney Harbour Bridge | Sydney Harbour Tunnel | Anzac Bridge | Gladesville Bridge | Fig Tree Bridge | Tarban Creek Bridge |
| Conceptual Plans | Sydney Orbital Motorway | Sydney Bypasses (past, present and proposed) |
| Categories | Category: Streets in Sydney | Category: Sydney highways |
| Other | M4 East (proposed) | Marrickville Tunnel (proposed) | North Western Expressway (abandoned) |
| Operators | Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales | Connector Motorways | State Wide Roads | Transurban | [edit] |
