B-Line road changes impact Military Rd businesses
B-LINE construction works are continuing to cause angst in Cremorne. Businesses on the outbound side are losing parking due to the introduction of a tidal flow system in the centre of the road.
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B-LINE construction works are continuing to cause angst in Cremorne.
Businesses on the outbound side are losing parking due to the introduction of a tidal flow system in the centre of the road.
Chris Quinn, owner of fitness company Exagym, is appealing to the B-Line planners for a solution.
“We have requested that they at the very least offer us something out of peak,” he said.
The works to remove the pedestrian safety fencing started this month and the tidal flow system will provide an extra lane for traffic during peak times.
The strip of road beside Exagym currently has parking all day until 3pm and this will be taken away once the system is in place.
Receiving a delivery by truck is going to be difficult for the business.
“The proposed solution is to put a loading zone right down the end next to McDonalds,” he said.
“It’s not impossible to receive a delivery from there but it’s quite far away.
“It’s not ideal.”
Mr Quinn would have to push all deliveries on a trolley to his business.
Alongside the difficulties with receiving deliveries he is also concerned about losing customers.
“It’s going to make it impossible for that drop-in customer who has never been to your store before to actually stop here,” he said.
“That customer will pretty much cease to exist.”
Transport for NSW said it has consulted extensively with local businesses since mid last year.
Changes to parking are required to operate the new tidal flow.
“Transport for NSW is working to minimise impacts to businesses through offset parking,” a spokeswoman said.
“We are working with North Sydney Council to convert metered parking in nearby streets to unmetered (free) time restricted parking.”
As part of the B-Line project the T3 was converted into a bus lane for the morning peak hours along Spit and Military roads from Monday.
A Transport for NSW spokeswoman said that traffic modelling showed that converting the T3 to a bus lane would “provide the greatest benefit to bus travel times and reliability”.
Over the morning rush hours buses transport up to 80 per cent of people using the T3 lane but make up 16 per cent of traffic in the lane.