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.

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Motorways	M2 Hills Motorway | M4 Western Motorway | M5 South Western Motorway | Westlink M7
Freeways / Expressways	Cahill Expressway | Eastern Distributor | Gore Hill Freeway | Southern Cross Drive | Southern Freeway | Sydney-Newcastle Freeway | Warringah Freeway | Western Distributor
Metroads	Metroad 1 | Metroad 2 | Metroad 3 | Metroad 4 | Metroad 5 | Metroad 6 | Metroad 7 | Metroad 9 | Metroad 10
Bridges & Tunnels	Anzac Bridge | Cross City Tunnel | Fig Tree Bridge | Gladesville Bridge | Iron Cove Bridge | Lane Cove Tunnel | Ryde Bridge | Spit Bridge | Sydney Harbour Bridge | Sydney Harbour Tunnel | 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
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