Residents Against Intermodal Development Moorebank is a Community Action Group focused on a STOP & MOVE of Moorebank Container Terminals to advance the city of Liverpool and protect its residents from needlessly wasteful and harmful industries. Residents Against Intermodal Development Moorebank is a Community Action Group composed of proactive, engaged, concerned Citizens and Residents from Sydney’s South West and beyond. Membership is open to any persons that value the future of this City, State and Country at both the macro and micro, in tangible economic and environmental terms. RAID Moorebank is guided by the overarching principle of pursuing the dream for a liveable, productive and sustainable City [Sydney], within an innovative and forward thinking State [NSW] that makes up our environmentally valuable and naturally beautiful Country [Australia]. As young, mature and retired professions whom value growth and a fair go, we seek to promote genuine strategic planning and an altruistic median that dismantles the “latte line” tradition. As Community Members we seek to contribute, consult and campaign to heighten the inherent value of local knowledge, communal experience and individual expertise. As taxpayers and financial stakeholders our expectation is that all government activity follows an open public process of cost / benefit analysis that acknowledges the abovementioned parameters to arrive at trustworthy and competent assessments of projects and their return on public investment. RAID Moorebank and its members have worked tirelessly since 2008 to engage with any and every mechanism of change, channel for advocacy and authentic representation. All in the ex*****on of a Stop + Move Campaign focused on the Moorebank Intermodal Freight Terminal [MIFT] and all associated projects. An expansive campaign that covers many areas of modern life, numerous disciplines, legislation and government ministries; the campaign includes but is not limited to 3 primary functions. Stop the inappropriate major project at Moorebank, Move it to a more suitable location[s] and promote more suitable zoning, uses and development that better reflect ESD Principles. RAID Moorebank is not opposed to growth or major projects. Seeking only to ensure the right projects are put at the right locations, so as to generate the right levers long term levers for growth. RAID Moorebank is not opposed to all Intermodals or Intermodals in principle. In contrast RAID Moorebank supports a greater shift of mode for container freight, from Road to Rail, so as to resolve and treat portside congestion and pollution at its source. Support being conditional. Based solely on the determination and introduction of Emissions and Technology Standards for Diesel Locomotives. This is an absolute necessity before any Intermodal project is assessed and approved. Most especially in urban metropolitan environments. As the Freight Network of Sydney and NSW, is defined and implemented over the next 15 years, and informed by our overarching principle and our Members. The scope of RAID Moorebank’s Mission and Campaign will continue to vary and grow, as it has done heretofore. Over many years [6+] detailed data and market driven analysis from independent sources, indicates that Moorebank Intermodal Freight Terminal is out of date; based in 40-year-old legacy land use planning. In depth Traffic Modelling has shown that the proposed project cannot provide the claimed outcomes utilised to promote the proposed project. The project will not increase rail share or create a mode shift, in point of fact it will put further constraints in the Rail Freight Network. The project will not reduce congestion or pollution at Port Botany, only duplicate it at the other end of the M5, which is already designated a traffic black spot. Accordingly, there is no economic or productive benefit, which in turn undermines the increasing out of date and redacted Business Case [pre 2010]. The critical mass of independent Modelling done by Govt Agencies, Academia, the Local Community and even the Proponents Consultants, negate the viability of MIFT. Following the demand of the market, anticipating the limitations on current networks and foretelling the expected future growth of Sydney and NSW. Collectively presently that the long term supply chain will be in the Eastern Creek region and that the new centre of gravity for the City’s freight network must be developed as a matter of Priority. Co-locating Sydney’s next Intermodal in Eastern Creek within the major distribution hub of Sydney will achieve everything that MIFT cannot ever realise. Alternatively, by master planning the 300 hectares of riverfront land, that would otherwise be wasted on and destroyed by Moorebank Intermodal FT. Local and State Governments could deliver Homes, Jobs, Educational opportunities and Public Transport options for current and future generations; culminating in a projected 36,000 up to 54,000 Jobs. By co-locating biodiversity and tourist, cultural and active spaces for the many associated planned schools, universities, 100s of businesses and 1000’s of residents, the City and the South West would realise an economic boom like no other. The the uplift in social and community amenity, set in a beautiful natural environment will generate a truly liveable, productive and sustainable City. The cadastral, spatial and environment context of the Georges River and Holsworthy Military Reserve would be Integral to any future alternative master plan. Thereby ensuring the preservation of Military, Indigenous and Non-Indigenous History. Maintaining the ever improving River Catchment Ecosystem and strictly protecting the richness of Flora and Fauna for current and future generations. Listed herein are some of the priorities, objectives and intended outcomes for RAID Moorebank. Each is intended to be open and dynamic able to respond when and where necessary.
