Politicians Stuffed Up Parramatta Road

currently cannot be clogged up with any kerbside parking. Especially for today’s retail operator who now must evolve into areas such as Omni-Channel sales or even Retail-tainment to draw in more customers from afar. The supporting infrastructure required would need access to better thought of parking strategies located along on the strip. This is because all these cars coming off the WestConnex and onto Parramatta Road would need a place to stop, and if it is convenient for them to easily drop in, then the commercial sections would logically come back to life. For now, our politicians just seem to avoid any revitalisation so many plans from them may unfortunately never come to light.

by Nick Angelucci

It has become an absolute joke on plans to revive the shopping strips along the congested Parramatta Road in some of the oldest suburbs in the Inner West. With billions spent to create the game changing WestConnex motorway, there has been considerably low investment to rejuvenate sections of the much-neglected historical shopping strips along Leichhardt, Petersham, Stanmore, and Annandale.

So many different ministers have stepped in over the decades to push the desire to decongest the horrible bottleneck leading in and out of our CBD. There is just little to no real progress to date, except for our changing politicians who continue their blame games amongst themselves. What is astonishing is their obsession to create a vibrant boulevard experience of shopping and entertainment, on a physical framework dating back to much simpler times.

With the recent opening of the WestConnex motorway, traffic along Parramatta Road has not seen any major reduction to opening the corridor to repurpose for people. Adding to that, the local politicians like to spruik solutions of more higher frequency public transport, green space, public artwork, and cycleways as the key motivators to bringing more people to live and work in the area. But there is an urgency on hand to get new developments happening sooner, to create the much-needed consumer foot traffic along the strip for it to be revived.

Clearly no thinking has been put towards what a modern-day shopping experience could look like on this arterial route, which