Consider that it would require:
- Many months of construction
- Loading zones removal*
- Car parking spaces removal*
- Taxi ranks removal*
The Newcastle Urban Renewal Strategy provided for the broadening and greening of footpaths and the construction of a cycleway to encourage people to come into the CBD. Hunter St light rail will kill off this plan and urban renewal of the CBD. *
*Cabinet in Confidence Transport for NSW Advice – 17 December, 2013 – (The Newcastle Herald and the Sydney Morning Herald have the full “cabinet minute copy 71” documents available here and also via newspaper article “Rail document found in Owen office: Labor“.)