M4 to get new ramps at Kent Road, Claremont Meadows

[Sam Laybutt]

http://penrith-press.whereilive.com.au/news/story/exit-ramps-off-m4-at-claremont-meadows-get-green-light/

Exit ramps off M4 at Claremont Meadows get green light

• GOVERNMENT

22 NOV 11 @ 12:00PM BY EMMA SCHILLER

A NEW exit will be added to the M4 at Kent Rd-Gipps St, Claremont Meadows, to serve the growing population and ease traffic to the University of Western Sydney’s Werrington/Kingswood campus.

The state Liberal MPs for Londonderry, Mulgoa and Penrith - Bart Bassett, Tanya Davies and Stuart Ayres - yesterday announced the contracts had been awarded for the first stage of the Werrington arterial road.

The new on- and off-ramps will create a fourth access point to the M4, reducing drivers’ need to use Mamre Rd, Mulgoa Rd and The Northern Rd.

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Ms Davies said the new M4 access would help provide for the growing populations of new suburbs in Sydney’s western outskirts.

“This project is about providing the infrastructure to support those growing residential, educational business areas of the community,” she said.

Mr Ayres said even though the project was only in its early planning stages he hoped building work would begin soon.

“Our main aim is to get it on board as quickly as possible,” he said.

“That might mean we look for cost-effective methods to get the road on the ground and on the way, rather than having all of the bells and whistles to start with,” he added.

THE ARTERIAL

* ROADS: Kent Rd/Gipps St to be widened to four lanes between M4 and Sunflower Drive South

* RAMPS: Eastern on and off ramps for the M4

* COST: State government has committed $10 million, the federal government will contribute a further $7 million

* PLANS: Designs for stage 1 to be open for community comment mid-2012

[Paul Rands]

That's gonna be a ripper bottleneck given the proximity to Mamre Rd. I know this plan has been in the pipeline since at least the 70s, but I am not sure Mamre Rd was ever intended to be dual ramps

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[Jason Kumar]

I was thinking the same thing too. A more "middle" location would be around Calverts Rd, but there's not much around there. You could consider joining Caddens Rd to Hall St across the creek?

[Sam Laybutt]

Any further west and it wouldn't connect with the Werrington Arterial...


Interchange spacing is about 1.5km between ramps so that's plenty of room. 



P.S. You know you're a Perthite when you open Google Maps and automatically start zooming in towards Perth :(

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[Sam Laybutt]

Also, I'm sure Claremont Meadows residents will love UWS traffic shooting through their suburb between the M4 and the campus...

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[Paul Rands]

Well prior to construction of the suburb, there was an uninterrupted straight road from Gipps St to the university. So they should blame council :)