Transport Access Program 3 - East Hills and Yagoona Stations Upgrades - ISCouncil

Transport Access Program 3 – East Hills and Yagoona Stations Upgrades

Project Details

  • Location: NSW
  • Stakeholders: Transport for NSW, Arenco

Overview

The East Hills and Yagoona Stations Upgrades are part of the third tranche of Transport for NSW’s Transport Access Program, known as TAP 3 and seeks to improve access to public transport for those with disability, those with limited mobility or parents with prams and customers with luggage (TAP 3 | Transport for NSW). Providing accessible transport services for everyone in the community, is one of the six priorities for Transport for NSW’s Future Transport Strategy.

Key Benefits:

East Hills Station

  • 2 new lifts connecting from the underpass to the station platforms
  • upgrade of the station entrance on Park Road to provide improved pathways for customers
  • upgrade of the two existing accessible parking spaces in the commuter car park
  • a new kiss and ride area on Park Road
  • upgrade of the pathway connecting Maclaurin Avenue to the station entrance
  • provision of a new family accessible toilet, and upgrade of the existing male and female toilets to include an ambulant toilet cubicle within each
  • installation of hearing loops and new boarding assistance zones on all platforms
  • improvements to lighting, CCTV and way-finding signage.

Yagoona Station

  • replacing the existing station entry concourse, building and stairs with a new station entry concourse from the Hume Highway including a new lift and stairs connecting the concourse to the station platform
  • a new station building on the island platform for station facilities, including a new family accessible toilet and new male and female ambulant toilets
  • additional platform canopies to provide continuous cover from the new lift and stairs to Platform 1 boarding assistance zone
  • two new accessible parking spaces in the Breasley Place commuter car park and upgrade of the two accessible parking spaces in the Ritchie Road commuter car park
  • upgrade of pathways from both commuter car parks to the station entrance
  • new kiss and ride bay on Hume Highway
  • platform regrading and new tactile installation
  • relocating existing bike hoops
  • upgrades to lighting, and CCTV.

TAP3 projects strive to achieve maximum social, economic and environmental outcomes and value for money. The approach to embedding sustainability on the TAP 3 program is to look at the main activities of the program and identify sustainability opportunities and outcomes.

While the scope of the TAP 3 program will focus on upgrades to meet Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport (DSAPT) requirements, the upgrades may also facilitate the use of public transport by:

  • Enabling more people to transfer from using private vehicles to public transport by making stations more accessible;
  • Designing interchanges to enable people to access stations by sustainable and healthy modes such as walking and cycling and by bus;

Providing accessible parking at stations to enable trains to be used for most of the journey instead of driving the whole journey.

Project Details

  • Rating Type:Rail
  • Registered Date: 01.06.2021
  • State:NSW
  • Suburbs: East Hills and Yagoona
  • Assessor: Rob McCann/Charles Pachulicz
  • Other Key Stakeholders Transport for NSW, Arenco

To find out more information about this project, visit the Transport for NSW website:

https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/projects/transport-access-program

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