A new report released by Infrastructure Partnerships Australia has called on Infrastructure NSW to release a strategy to provide a detailed, ambitious and long-term vision to protect and corridors and prioritise the right projects to ensure sustainable growth.

 

“Infrastructure NSW must recapture the ambition of John Bradfield’s master plan of the 1920s and the discipline that saw the 1951 County of Cumberland Scheme protect corridors for Sydney’s contemporary road network,” said Brendan Lyon, Chief Executive of IPA.

 

“The Cumberland Scheme protected corridors for Sydney’s major motorways, some of which remain undelivered 60 years on. These plans reshaped Sydney and put in place the backbone of every subsequent government’s infrastructure plans through to the present day.

 

“Now, with most of the Cumberland Scheme delivered, we need again to look over the horizon and deliver a real and ambitious plan that reshapes the State over the next 50 years.

 

“If Infrastructure NSW gets its plan right, it will be remembered long after the individual projects that it recommends have faded in significance.

 

“Infrastructure NSW will look at projects for the next 20 years, but it must look longer-term in protecting land for potential projects, like High Speed Rail, future motorway corridors like the M9 and metro-style mass transit in Sydney and beyond.

 

The report can be found here