A Public Voice meeting is being held tonight at City Hall to discuss the future use of the land where the Newcastle inner city rail line used to run.
The meeting will allow those in favour of developing it and those against the idea to make their case to Newcastle Council.
Newcastle Concerned Citizens Convenor, David Blyth believes the cutting of the rail line has had a detrimental impact in the city.
"There's a lot of concern about what we would regard as a very hasty cutting of the railway line with no real forethought as to how that might affect the city and the access to Newcastle by people from Sydney or from Lake Macquarie, and the consequences being fewer people are coming to Newcastle," he said.
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| David Blyth. Photo courtesy abc.net.au |
"By demanding further reports and further briefings they're risking the jobs and growth and the $2-billion investment pipeline we're seeing in the city centre," he said.
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| Andrew Fletcher |
