Balmain Town Hall Public Meeting with SMC - December 2016

It was standing room only at the Balmain Town Hall on Thursday night as hundreds of residents gathered to hear from and ask questions of the SMC.

Mr Lozano was critical of the WestConnex project when addressing Mr Jones at the meeting. “Here is some feedback, this is due for failure just like every other toll road. The world has moved away from this solution. The world has moved away from roads because you cannot pour traffic into a city and not expect congestion......

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WestConnex Not On Council’s Agenda - 23 August 2016

On Tuesday August 23, the unelected Inner West Council met for the third time since its appointment by the Baird government.

The published meeting agenda ran to over 600 pages, yet failed to include WestConnex or urban growth as agenda items.

John Lozano of Haberfield made an impassioned appeal to the Mr Pearson, that he act on the issue of WestConnex or resign as Administrator.

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How will the Westconnex emissions stack being built opposite Bunnings (Haberfield/Ashfield), impact our community?
Or the one at St Peters, or the ones at Rozelle, or the one at....

A WestConnex representative has told disgruntled residents to ‘come after me’ if the promises he makes as project director for the M4-M5 link are broken.

The Sydney Motorway Corporation is responsible for the construction of WestConnex, and finally met with community members after dodging earlier community consultations.

It was standing room only at the Balmain Town Hall on Thursday night as hundreds of residents gathered to hear from and ask questions of the SMC.

Going once, going twice, sold for $3,300....
That's how much council accepted for a 200 sq mtr block of land at Reg Coady Reserve.

So I thought I'd check whether council left a few zeros of the price?

Who remembers the stormy first Inner West council meeting? The unelected administrator, fresh from Macquarie st, was greeted by the full fury of our community. He was so ruffled he hurriedly proclaimed he also "opposed Westconnex in the strongest possible terms!" 

So I wanted to know, how strong that opposition was going to be?