Plans to make Australia s biggest city more attractive and livable include changing major roads into green avenues with more trees and bikes and fewer cars.
Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore unveiled plans to reduce traffic flow on major routes like Broadway, Botany Road, Oxford Street and Park Street with artist impressions showing leafy promenades and new cycle paths where car lanes used to be.
The plans also proposed transforming some of the city s busiest streets like York, Clarence, Pitt and Castlereagh from traffic corridors to destinations .
But the plans have not gone down well with everyone.
Broadway as it looks today - with up to four lanes in each direction carrying thousands of cars in and out of the city
Fewer cars, more trees: Sydney s traffic-choked roads are set to go green
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Fewer cars, more trees: Sydney s traffic-choked roads are set to go green
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Oxford gets green light for build-to-rent in Sydney CBD
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A 39-storey build-to-rent building in the heart of the Sydney CBD has won planning approval, as part of a $1 billion two-tower development on Pitt Street by Canada’s Oxford Properties.
With 234 apartments, the residential tower will rise above the southern entrance of the Sydney Metro Pitt Street station, the first such BTR project in the CBD. Its companion tower, a 39-level office tower, was granted development approval last month.
A render of the build-to-rent project that will rise above the Pitt Street Metro station.
Partnered with local property platform Investa and CPB Contractors, the Oxford-led consortium is building the metro station and the two towers above. Work on the station started late last year while construction of the residential tower is expected to kick off later this year.