New road to help ease the oncoming congestion

BY JESSICA ROUSE

Revitalising Newcastle is working to make driving around the CBD a little easier.

Construction is underway on a new road connecting Honeysuckle Drive and Hunter Street at Worth Place. The idea is that the new road will assist traffic flow in the city centre during light rail construction and when light rail is operational.

The work is due to be completed in the coming weeks.

Another road connection will be built at Steel Street next year.

Michael Cassel says "we are transforming the way people move around the city".

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Changes to Light Rail Plans through Newcastle

BY BRIDGET GUNN

The NSW Government has announced changes to the plans for the Newcastle Light Rail to reflect suggestions made by the public.

These changes will include shifting from a raised track design to a track flush with the road, changes to the alignment at Worth Place and adding a second track at Stewart Avenue.

Newcastle MP Tim Crackanthorp says that although these changes will be an improvement for the Light Rail plans, the plans still require a number of changes.

"The Government needs to listen to Council, and their particular desire for mixed running into the city  for cyclists and pedestrians into the city otherwise there will be no parking down Hunter Street, and we will see a lot of businesses go under."

The planned track for the Light Rail through Newcastle
Source: The Conversation